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Volume 2, Number 2.3D Virtual Worlds for Health and Healthcare
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Volume 2, Number 23D Virtual Worlds for Health and HealthcareAugust 2009
Maged N. Kamel BoulosSusan Toth-CohenSimon Bignel
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 Volume 2, Number 23D Virtual Worlds for Health and HealthcareAugust 2009
Virtual Worlds in Health Care Higher Education
By Constance M. Johnson, Allison Vorderstrasse and Ryan Shaw,Duke University School of Nursing
Abstract
 Advances in information technology bring progress in distance education.Online education programs are pervasive, however, only recently has the Web 2.0brought about interactive, dynamic distance based health care education in virtual worlds (VWs). VWs allow for real time representations of environments, manipulableobjects and interactions between avatars or bots, creating a sense of realism and  presence that is absent in traditional, flat online education. Presence has been linked to knowledge transfer and better learning. Second Life®, currently the largest virtual world, has been used in higher education, including health care education at the Duke University School of Nursing. Students have indicated higher levels of  satisfaction with the learning environment and quality of instruction in this VW compared to other online learning systems. There is a need for further research inonline education in VWs, and room for growth in applications of VWs in education.
Keywords
: Virtual Worlds; education nursing graduate; nursing informatics; Internet;cooperative behavior.
 
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