Posted on May 20, 2009 by johnwaugh
AUCKLAND U’s VIRTUAL MEDICAL CENTRE
Students learn those communication,
teamwork, clinical skills – virtually
Virtual simulation in an Auckland University, New Zealand, virtual medical centre training environment is returning similar results to a real life training facility at a fraction of the cost of a facility of that type, according to Dr Scott Diener [...]
Filed under: Distance education, Education in Second Life, Education in virtual worlds, SL Medicine, Second Life, Virtual Worlds | Tagged: Diener, Distance Education, Medical, Ongens, Otago University, University of Auckland, University of Canterbury | 1 Comment »
Posted on November 18, 2008 by johnwaugh
A personal view
Can we unlock Ivory-tower gate?
I sometimes get the feeling that some educators move into places like the web and virtual worlds in order to keep the lock on the gate or keep “control” of the world of learning – in other words keep the learning behind the ivory-tower gate – in a universe [...]
Filed under: Education in virtual worlds | Tagged: slenz, Diener, Auckland University, Blackall, Robbins-Bell, Intellagirl Tully, Educause, edupunk, New Media consortium, cogdogblog, blip.tv, Otago Polyytechic, Richard katz, "The Tower in the Cloud - Higher education in the age o | 4 Comments »
Posted on October 26, 2008 by johnwaugh
Auckland ‘ER’ in SL
Dr Scott Diener (Professor Noarlunga, pictured) [http://scottdiener.edublogs.org/], at the University of Auckland, has created a simulated hospital emergency room where small teams of medical and nursing students can learn to diagnose and treat patients requiring emergency treatment.
Sited on an University of Auckland island, appropriately called the Long White Cloud [ http://slurl.com/secondlife/Long%20White%20Cloud/31/39/28 ], [...]
Filed under: Sl Conferences, Uncategorized | Tagged: Kingdon, Diener, Auckland University, immersive workspaces, Rivers Run Red, Linden Lab, SLEDevents, Shadbolt, Southern Insitute of Technology | 1 Comment »
