The use of virtual patients in dental education is gaining acceptance as an adjunctive method to live patient interactions for training dental students. The objective of this study was to determine the extent to which virtual patients are being utilized in dental education by conducting a survey that was sent to sixty-seven dental schools in the United States and Canada. A total of thirty denta...

1 Professor, Department of Civil Engineering & Engineering Mechanics, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721 USA, Phone: 520-621-2145, Fax: 520621-2145: [email protected] & Guest Professor, Institute of Geotechnical Engineering, ETH Hönggerberg, Zurich. Abstract  This contribution deals with the application of modern technologies to develop virtual laboratories for civil engineering educat...

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— In spite of the fact that virtual education is being implemented rapidly at a national level, its incorporation in Spanish universities is still not very relevant and mainly it focuses on postgraduate courses. Nevertheless, the arrival of the European Higher Education Area will oblige universities to take action to virtualize its education. In order to assist teachers who are confronted with ...

The authors’ team has been working with virtual worlds since 2006, deploying them in diverse contexts including secondary schools, special schools, vocational education and training, higher education and the community sector. Here the authors outline their operational experience of the complex web of interrelated factors involved in running virtual world projects. The authors discuss project de...

social practice with its own peculiarities and identities (Wallace, 2001). Education as a social process is not alien to this technological characterization, but neither can these forms of interaction be inserted mechanically or frivolously into the area of education. The possibilities that have opened up due to the ways in which virtual technology acts provide education with new challenges (Ha...

The use of information technology to enhance teaching and learning processes has been practiced for a number of years now. However, the rapid growth in the use of the Internet has led to a new dimension in interactive and collaborative learning anytime and anyplace dynamically. With the explosion of “virtual education initiatives”, the question of the feasibility and success criteria for such p...

This system is an artificial intelligence entity, with the power of natural language processing, as a virtual teacher for learning and assessment of statistical inference, available through the Internet for student use. It has a logical reasoning engine and uses two knowledge bases, one for statistical inference and the other for rules of English grammar and general knowledge to facilitate lear...

ICT is playing an important role in the area of instrumentation nowadays. Started with an “old-fashioned” connection between an individual instrument and a computer, which provides the opportunity to display of measurement data on a virtual instrument panel, today, the VI applications can interfere with human activities in a very accurate way. In the last years, commercial software products for...