Virtual learning environment

immersive than ever with the immergence of virtual reality headsets, but they can do more than provide entertainment. Virtual reality can be used in the treatment and assessment of patients. It can help reduce pain and decrease symptoms of PTSD and strokes. In this way, Virtual reality is beneficial to society. Virtual reality can be used to help clinical psychologist make important assessments about their patients. One study claims that the benefits of virtual reality for clinical assessments…

Transition to a VIRTUAL Workspace, Strategies & Benefits Researchers argues that organizations that utilize the structure of virtual teams attract and retain key talents due to the fact that the virtual workspace is characterized by its flexibility which in all essence is a motivator for job fulfilment for most employees. For most organizations, the implementation of the virtual team concept reduces operational cost and travel time for employees. However, notwithstanding of all the…

Domingas Fernandes Evaluation #3 On Wednesday night March 30th, I opened my Blackboard page and noticed that I had a notification from my Virtual Group. My group members had already started the discussion about what Electronic Meeting System we would be using for the assignment. GoogleDoc, being the most widely used, was suggested and everyone seemed to agree with it. We also shared our phone numbers and decided to use iMessage. On the following day, it seemed that everybody forgot that we…

Industrie 4.0 is a new and very big subject and can be defined as “creating a virtual copy of the whole company with all its structure and processes in the cyber space”. With the integration of different object like machines, products and humans and their ability to communicate with each other opens an endless list of possibility for actively and automatically intervene into the production process. However the author thinks that speaking about a revolution is not quite correct as Industrie 4.0…

As almost any athlete, will tell you, it’s easy to begin a new fitness routine or adopt a new workout technique. The difficult part, however, is actually reaching the goals set and taking your performance to the next level. Sports training is a physically and mentally demanding task that’s filled with countless pitfalls and lots of frustrations. But what if new technology could make the effort easier for athletes? The key might be to make sports training smarter - technologically, smarter that…

Forcing someone into a completely alternative environment with no prior knowledge of the situation is a platform for confusion and sometimes even denial. Plato’s “Allegory of The Cave,” and The Matrix both contain instances of people who have experience with the process of learning entirely new concepts. In the “Allegory of the Cave,” prisoners are exposed to shadows for all of their lives. This lifelong exposure resulted in the belief that the displayed shadows are the actuality. Furthermore,…

coordination like a normal person. VRT helps patients by stimulating sensitivity of an actual proximity of objects surrounding them (Ansuini, Pierno, Lusher & Castiello, 2006). Virtual reality (VR) is a cybernetic situation using advance computer technology enabling a three dimension interaction between patients and environment. The disparity between a confined laboratory environs and an actual state is greatly reduced, and regardless of any physical impairment, the interface is applicable in…

Technology is rapidly improving its role in today’s academic environment. In 1969 advances in technology allowed the United States to successfully land on the moon. The Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC) only had 64 Kilobytes (KB) of memory (Marx 103) Today it is not uncommon for someone carrying an average smartphone to have thousands of times this capacity. As computers become more capable, the way that they can be utilized is only inhibited by one’s imagination. As technology improves and…

result of the planned learning/teaching event”. This essay will critically discuss the two theories of learning objectives created by Knowles, including educational and operational learning objectives. Each theory will also acknowledge it’s positive and negative aspects, and why it essential…

In this day and age, the development of online learning has created an accessible way for adults to participate in college classes and earn a degree. As a stay at home mom of five adding classes to an already busy schedule presented a problem. Wanting to excel and complete a degree the idea of online learning presented a good fit but could I be successful? Fortunately, a study completed by Erman Yujsekturk and Ercan Top for the British Journal of Educational Technology titled; “Exploring the…