Virtual Learning

SinteSe: O objetivo central desse trabalho é compreender o comportamento de uso de um sistema de gestão acadêmica em uma Universidade Federal em relação às ferramentas de apoio às atividades docentes. A pesquisa é censitária, compreende todos os professores dos cursos de graduação e pós-graduação nos períodos 2010.2 e 2011.1. Utilizou-se a análise de cluster para separar os elementos em grupos, de acordo com o uso maior ou menor do sistema de gestão.

The virtual world has opened new possibilities for disseminating music both new and historic. This  2020 virtual concert, created in collaboration with The Friends of the Erben Organ and described in this article allowed for a wide-ranging presentation about the harmonium and reed organ and its relationship to the pipe organ. In addition to introducing music world-wide that was written for important restored antique instruments, the virtual format allowed for technological/cultural narrative analysis via the insertion of spoken clips. Functioning like program notes of old, the extensive narrative clips do not disturb the flow of the concert because they can be electively clicked on by the viewer at any time. The concert featured music for a 1903 Mustel Art Harmonium, a Mason & Hamlin Liszt Organ from 1887, a 1925 portable preacher's organ and the historic Erben Organ. Composers included Kodaly, Bizet, Widor, Karg-Elert, Harry T. Burleigh, George Templeton Strong, Dudley Buck and Carson Cooman.

This study aimed to synthesize theoretical and designing framework of Virtual Immersive Learning Environments (VILEs) based on digital storytelling to enhance deeper learning for undergraduate students. Documents analysis and survey research were employed in this study. The procedures were as follows: (1) to examine and analyze the principles, theories and related researches, (2) to study instructional context, (3) to synthesize the theoretical framework, and (4) to synthesize the designing framework. The results revealed that the theoretical framework comprised of four bases was as follows: (1) immersive technology, (2) digital storytelling, (3) Stories evaluation and (4) deeper learning. The designing framework consisted of 4 elements, were as follows: (1) VILEs based on digital storytelling to enhance deeper learning, (2) Supporting Cognitive, (3) Supporting Interpersonal and (4) Support Intrapersonal.

Czego możemy nauczyć się od tych, którzy prowadzą zdalną edukację od dawna? E dukacja zdalna ma długie tradycje. Kształcenie przy wykorzystaniu edu-kacji korespondencyjnej (listy tradycyjne), radia, telewizji, gazet, a więc starych mediów, stało się wymuszoną koniecznością w szczególności w krajach o niskiej gęstości zaludnienia. Równie istotnym powodem wprowadzenia metod uczenia się i nauczania na odległość był brak dostępu do instytucji edukacji formalnej i pozaformalnej w siedliskach oddalonych od więk-szych skupisk ludzkich. Wraz z rozwojem społeczeństwa informacyjnego wzro-sły techniczne możliwości przesyłania danych, lecz jednocześnie w wielu krajach nie zniknęły ograniczenia uniemożliwiające powoływanie nowych instytucji edu-kacyjnych, które zniwelowałyby brak dostępu do placówek oświatowych. Owa zależność spowodowała wzrost popularności platform służących kształceniu zdalnemu przede wszystkim w krajach rozwijających się. Z opisanymi wcześniej wyzwaniami od wielu lat zmagają się organizatorzy edukacji formalnej w krajach afrykańskich, Australii, Azji, Ameryce Łacińskiej, krajach wyspiarskich. Jednakże należy na wstępie wyraźnie podkreślić, że w większości państw nauczanie zdal-ne jest traktowane jako jeden z alternatywnych środków dydaktycznych. Jest to atrakcyjna, multimedialna forma przekazywania wiedzy stosowana głównie w nurcie działań uzupełniających tradycyjne formy edukacji (zob. Pegrum, Oakley, Faulkner, 2013). Analizując możliwości stosowania kształcenia online jako substy-tutu stacjonarnych zajęć, odwołano się do kilku zagranicznych przykładów, któ-93

With the spread of Covid-19, the world of interaction technology research has completely changed: The pandemic has created a higher demand for technologies that allow us to avoid touching devices. Before the pandemic, the world had a harder time understanding the importance of touchless technology, and even then it was not imagined in this context. The gesture-based technologies and hand interaction that have been adopted in research have thus far not been popular outside of research labs. There are several issues in the design, development, and adoption of such technologies that should be addressed in the near future.

The experience for the use of technology has generated new social involvements, especially through the "network society" and "cyberculture". This study aims to analyze the influence of these virtual experiences for civil procedure, especially by the use of the virtual means for the formation of the probative set. It is fundamental to realize that in this association probatory there may be an antagonism that guides the truthful and the untrue, especially in the face of the plurality of meanings that the word " virtual reality" involves through "cyberculture and that is also contextualized in the intercommunication and virtualization of information .In this context, the work is organized in sections that are inclined to elucidate: reality and virtuality; evidence and truth; and the use of virtual evidence in the context of civil proceedings.For that, we applied the comparative and historical methods, using bibliographic and exploratory revision techniques to understand the use and validity of the virtual evidence as a probative source.

KEYWORDS: REALITY, VIRTUALITY, EVIDENCE, PROCEDURE CIVIL.

Resumo
A convivência com o uso da tecnologia tem gerado novas experiências sociais, especialmente por meio da “sociedade em rede” e da “cibercultura”. Assim, o presente trabalho visa analisar as influencias dessas experiências virtuais para o processo civil, especialmente pelo uso dos meios virtuais para formação do conjunto probatório. É fundamental que se perceba que nesta associação probatória pode haver um antagonismo que norteia o verídico e o inverídico, principalmente diante da pluralidade de significados que envolve a palavra “realidade virtual” por meio da “cibercultura e que também está contextualizada na intercomunicação e na virtualização da informação. Nesse sentido, o trabalho está organizado em seções que propendem explorar: realidade e virtualidade; prova e verdade; e a utilização da prova virtual no contexto do processo civil. Para tanto, se aplicou os métodos comparativo e histórico, com a utilização de técnicas de revisão bibliográfica e exploratória para compreender uso e a validade das provas virtuais como fonte probatória.

PALAVRAS-CHAVE: REALIDADE, VIRTUALIDADE, PROVA, NOVO SISTEMA PROCESSUAL CIVIL.

Today’s society is growing, moving, pushing and pulling in so many different directions. Society has moved from the invention of electricity in the 1800’s to the invention of the iPhone, which has changed the way we use, and perceive technology today. The survival of an architectural student depends on being able to communicate multiple drawings, graphics, images, diagrams and more in the most productive method. Each phase in design requires a clear and concise conversation between the designer and the observer. Schematic Designs generate some of the most creative ideas during a projects progression. With this understood, this section of this paper will analyze the introduction of Second life to students, professionals, and clients of architecture in a virtual simulated environment. The ability to demonstrate a design solution to a professor or another student across the world will truly increase the effectiveness of collaboration, critic, and cooperation. This applied research paper will analyze the application of Second Life in architectural education, communication, and creative design solutions.

Abstract: Higher Education is increasingly relying on e-learning as a means of providing students with teaching and learning resources. Almost inevitably, this means that students interact with these learning resources through the medium of the computer screen. Although there have been significant advances in the design and implementation of online resources, exactly how students interact with these resources is a relatively new field of research. In this feasibility study students were asked to interact with a virtual learning environment, i.e. Blackboard, as well as Internet based resources, i.e. Ingenta and Wikipedia. Specifically, the students were asked to find the answer to a question provided, e.g. “what is classical conditioning?”orto locate a body of research related to a given topic, e.g. “theories of forgetting”. As they searched for the information the eye movements of the students were recorded using a Tobii X50 eye tracking system. The data gathered was analyseddynamic...

3D design and 3D contents are becoming ever so popular in today's technology. The whole world is moving towards the 3D content platform, 3D printers, 3D TV sets, 3D mobiles etc. no exception to that is the web and all things in it. AquaFlux and Epsilon are two of our state of the art skin measurement instruments. Originally developed by our research group as research projects, AquaFlux and Epsilon have now been commercialised and used in more than 70 organisations worldwi de. However, due to the nature of the technologies, they often require on-site intensive training, which is expensive and time-consuming. There is a genuine need for an interactive virtual training environment that users can be trained whenever and wherever they want. This pa per demonstrates the development of a web-based interactive 3D virtual environment for these two skin measurement instruments to serve this demand. The new system contains detailed virtual user manuals, step by step interactive instructions that will direct the users on how to use these two skin measurement devices. The virtual environment will benefit users by giving users a very realistic feel about how these instruments work. VR (Virtual Reality) is an essential technology that will deliver to users the experience and knowledge in this regard.

La necesaria innovación en los procesos de enseñanza aprendizaje de las Matemáticas, teniendo como referente el vertiginoso avance de las Tecnologías de la Información y de la Comunicación TIC, que evolucionan los ambientes escolares, obliga a indagar sobre nuevos modelos de intervención pedagógica en el aula, mediante recursos digitales, muchos de ellos disponibles en repositorios virtuales, a la manera de Objetos Interactivos de Aprendizaje, OIA,  como los puestos al servicio del sistema educativo en el área de las Matemáticas, por la Red Educativa Digital Descartes. Dichos modelos deben ser puestos a prueba para determinar su fiabilidad y eficiencia. Por ello dentro del programa de investigación: «Apropiación Pedagógica de las TIC en las Escuelas Innovadoras del Centro de Innovación Educativo Regional CIER Occidente», se llevó a cabo el proyecto de investigación: «Evaluación del Impacto del Uso de Objetos de Aprendizaje Interactivos a través de la Herramienta Descartes JS con Estudiantes de Matemáticas de Cuarto y Quinto Grado de Básica Primaria», por parte de la Institución Universitaria Pascual Bravo, en las Escuelas Innovadoras Débora Arango Pérez de Medellín y Primitivo Leal La Doctora de Sabaneta, y cuyos resultados son objeto, del presente artículo.

Mit diesem Titel liegt eine veröffentlichte Magisterarbeit vor, deren redaktioneller Beschreibungstext auf dem Buchrücken einen „Blick über den Tellerrand hinaus“ verspricht. Dieses Versprechen soll sich durch drei Leitaspekte einlösen, die den Einfluss von virtuellen Welten auf das menschliche Verhalten fokussieren, zweitens das Suchtpotenzial und die Isolation von der Außenwelt thematisieren und drittens die neuen sozialen Komponenten beleuchten, die durch die ‚Begehung’ virtueller Welten ermöglicht werden.

There is no consensus regarding a common set of metrics for robot task complexity in associated human-robot interactions. This paper is an attempt to address this issue by proposing a new metric so that the educational potential when using robots can be further developed. Tasks in which students in Japan and UK interact in a 3D virtual space to collaboratively program robots to navigate mazes have resulted in quantitative data of immersion, Circuit Task Complexity and Robot Task Complexity. The data has subsequently been collated to create a proposed new metric for tasks involving robots, which we have termed Task Fidelity. The paper proposes that Task Fidelity is a quantitative measure of a set robot task in relation to a learner’s solution. By quantifying Task Fidelity educators utilizing robots in schools and in Higher Education will be able to provide tasks commensurate with the expected successful outcomes achieved by the learners.

This study aimed to evaluate the results of the application of a virtual learning object for the simulated evaluation of acute pain in the learning of undergraduate nursing students and to verify the opinions of the students regarding the quality of the technology. This was a quasi-experimental, non-randomized, before and after study performed with 14 students in the seventh phase of the undergraduate nursing course of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The pre (8.84) and post-test (9.31) means revealed significant differences in learning after the intervention (p=0.03). In the qualitative evaluation the flexibility of access, access independent of time/place, freedom to decide the best learning route and the similarity with reality were highlighted. It constitutes a promising educational tool, an interactive experience, similar to reality, dynamic and constructive learning. The application of the technology has brought positive results for learning about pain evaluation, con...

Traditional, institutionally supported learning management systems (LMSs) provide many features and benefits; however, most LMSs do not provide tools and features that are comparable with emerging learning technologies. In addition, since many LMS products require expensive licensing agreements or support teams, these tools are not necessarily the best models for users who may wish to implement their own online learning initiatives. In this paper, an evaluation of the use of Google Sites and Google+ in place of several LMS components for an online graduate-level course will be reported. Data were gathered from students over multiple offerings of a course that utilized Google tools for information presentation and discussion. Participants provided personal perceptions and reactions to using the Google platform, in general, as well as feedback and comparative opinions between the Google platform and previous experiences using the institutionally supported LMS.

With online and blended learning now commonplace, it is surprising that the research regarding the accessibility of virtual learning environments and other collaborative learning management systems is relatively sparse. This paper provides an initial empirical investigation into the accessibility problems that are present in 3 different virtual learning environments. This investigation demonstrates that there are a number of places where virtual learning environments can present barriers to learning for students with disabilities.

Digital simulations and games constitute a distinct category of learning intervention that calls for a tailor-made instructional design approach. This article will provide some background for that claim. A brief summary of several well-known I.D. models is presented as well as typical simulation and game design models. These are then combined to form the new synergistic design process model that takes into consideration key features of all three design disciplines, resulting in a new model uniquely adapted for the design of instructional simulations and games. The paper concludes with some lessons learned from first-hand experience designing simulations and games for instructional purposes.

Mental illness is common in the United States. About one in four adults suffers from some form of mental illness in a given year (Holmes, 1/14/2015).

This level of occurrence is even higher for college students—perhaps as high as one in two according to the article, Delivering Cognitive Behavior Therapy to Young Adults with Symptoms of Depression and Anxiety Using a Fully Automated Conversational Agent (Woebot): A Randomized Controlled Trial (Fitzpatrick, et al., April-June, 2017.) In a related article, Depression and College Students, Michael Kerr points out that financial worries due to high debt and poor employment prospects coupled with failed relationships, lack of sleep, poor eating habits, and not enough exercise frequently result in the development of depression (Kerr, 3/29/2012). There are also many life transitions and challenges to a student’s identity.

In their effort to overcome this fear of stigma, Stanford researchers developed a virtual therapist, or conversational agent (often called a chatbot). The chatbot employs artificial intelligence and natural language processing to deliver cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) to college students self-identified as suffering from significant depression and/or anxiety.

Stanford's virtual therapist is named Woebot. Like many chatbots, Woebot uses Natural Language Programming to process student responses to questions posed by the virtual therapist, then guides the conversation to an appropriate node of a decision tree to provide suggested actions.

"Block Printing is the process of using an object to make an inked impression upon a plain surface. It is one of the oldest and most enjoyable of all the crafts and has given color and pattern to paper, cloth, and other surfaces for nearly 4,000 years.
Today the process is essentially the same. As it is simple and impressive, it is ideal for the beginner. "

This presentation explores the technology tools that we will keep beyond 2020. The pandemic forced many of us to revamp our teaching, shifting to remote and hybrid instruction. We describe the tools that we will continue to use in our classrooms long after the pandemic is over. We provide an overview of how we use the features of Zoom to increase participation, use Google Docs to track student discussions in breakout rooms, use Seesaw to practice skills in an engaging way, and use Flipgrid to provide an alternative to discussion boards.

This study evaluated the proficiency rate of entry-level welders that have utilized virtual reality (VR) in welding against entry-level welders who utilized traditional welding (TW) training methods. The authors of similar studies confirm increases in psychomotor skills of the subjects while utilizing VR simulation. This study relates to proficiency skills through a series of set proficiency checks. The goal for this study was to identify cost efficiency and faster training of welders in a single welding process, Flux Core Arc Welding (FCAW); with two different positions horizontal fillet weld position (2F) and flat groove weld (1G). This study also assists in developing a new teaching model to produce welders in or-der to the industry demands. This study was conducted in a regular training lab, and the utilized the Vrtex 360 and the Vrtex Mobile. Neither the researcher nor the study endorses Lincoln Electric Co. or the Vrtex equipment; the Vrtex avail-ability was the reason why it was chosen to use be used throughout this study.

The current global Coronavirus pandemic has created a number of problems for the teaching and supervision of media-related practice (such as broadcast production) in Higher Education contexts. This paper presents challenges facing the supervision of group projects involving media production and explores possible solutions drawn from various parts of the feedback nexus, ICT tools; and new approaches to supervisorial intervention. Ideas and solutions developed now under the current lockdown context can be used or adapted for future contexts of supervision involving various levels of restriction on movement or physical interaction.

The COVID-19 Pandemic which began in the first quarter of 2020 has significantly changed the way of education to the tertiary level. Physical or face to face classes were suspended and the semester was ended online via different learning platforms of different Higher Educational Institutions. This study provides the different perspectives of students of the University of Santo Tomas and how they are utilizing social media as a means of coping up during the Pandemic and the community quarantines that were issued by both the Local and National government. A total of 279 student respondents were gathered based from the student population last Academic Year 2019-2020. Results show that there is dependence in utilizing social media in terms of communication and entertainment but a 'neutral' decline in terms of mental health and being a safe-space. The study also recommended that there is a need to conduct it on a larger scale basis and include not only Tertiary education, but also primary and secondary. State Universities and Colleges are also recommended for further study regarding the same topic.

In this article, Dr. Samiramis Sarkardei IBDP Biology and Chemistry teacher discusses her teaching response to the virtual teaching and learning as a result of the 2020 Covid19 pandemic and questions to shift focus on one big summative exam at the end of the year to skill-based learning that can be demonstrated by students throughout their learning.