Background Virtual reality technology is an exciting and emerging field with vast applications. Our study sets out the viewpoint that virtual reality software could be a new focus of direction in the development of training tools in medical education. We carried out a panel discussion at the Center for Behavior Change 3rd Annual Conference, prompted by the study, "The Responses of Medical Gener...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) offer new approaches towards knowledge acquisition and collaboration through distance learning processes. Web-based Learning Management Systems (LMS) have transformed the way that education is conducted nowadays. At the same time, the adoption of Virtual Worlds in the educational process is of great importance, not only for the researchers in the...

OBJECTIVE Pathology education includes an important visual part supporting a wide range of theoretical knowledge. However, the use of traditional microscopes in pathology education has declined over the last decade and there is a lack of interest for microscopy. Virtual microscopy, which was first described in 1985 and has experienced a revolution since 2000, is an alternative technique to conv...

The purpose of this paper is to present selected literature on learners and collaborative learning in virtual worlds. Research in virtual worlds on collaborative learners is gradually emerging and will gain in significance, particularly in online and distance education environments. It will be argued that the design and functionality of virtual worlds provides a platform for collaboration, part...

Rapid developments of medical field, expanding knowledge bases and new technologies require continuing medical education to achieve life long learning and to keep physicians up-to-date. Consequently, specific training is necessary to guarantee qualification of medical experts. Virtual Reality has the potential to build up a safe training environment overcoming current drawbacks of traditional t...

Mobile Education or M-Education is a new conceptual paradigm in the use of mobile and wireless technologies for education. M-Education encourages distributed peer collaboration over wireless devices and desktop computers to create opportunities for discovery and education in the field and community. It is a projectoriented approach that will use a wireless virtual community to facilitate the le...

This study was developed with the objective of determining evaluation teaching performance and its influence on use virtual classrooms in higher education system, as an important relationship that encompasses social change, highlighting health crisis impact Lay University "Eloy Alfaro" Manabí. A quantitative carried out, a descriptive approach, applied to students teachers through surveys. The ...

Research has been carried out into the educational and training innovations resulting from the current implementation of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs) in institutions of higher education in order to understand how these innovations interrelate with teaching and learning; the implications at the institutional level; and the cross-cultural diversity within virtual learning environments, wi...