Best of Both Worlds

Autor/in	Ramaswami, Rama
Titel	Best of Both Worlds
Quelle	In: Campus Technology, 23 (2009) 1, S.24-26 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1553-7544
Schlagwörter	Computer Simulation; Teaching Methods; Experiential Learning; Colleges; Computer Uses in Education; Educational Technology; Blended Learning; Electronic Learning; Relevance (Education); Practicums; Medical Education; Middle Schools; Technology Integration; Educational Games + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Computergrafik; Computersimulation; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Experiental learning; Erfahrungsorientiertes Lernen; College; Hochschule; Fachhochschule; Computernutzung; Unterrichtsmedien; Relevance; Relevanz; Practicum; Praktikum; Praktika; Medizinische Ausbildung; Middle school; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Educational game; Lernspiel
Abstract	Educators know that people learn best by doing. When students are doing something rather than reading or learning about it, they learn better. Immersive environments help students retain more information and speed up their learning. There's an enhancement in the way they learn. Immersive environments--which utilize technologies like simulations, virtual reality, augmented reality, Second Life, and the like--have long held sway in the gaming world, where advances in digital, information, and online technologies have helped to create mind-boggling artificial spaces that absorb users into an alternative or amplified reality. Immersive education employs the same technologies, but unlike gaming, immersive education doesn't isolate students in an imaginary world, but rather uses the technologies to bridge the conceptual with the concrete--giving students a virtual laboratory in which to work out real-world problems. An immersive environment engages the learner's mind and leads to better learning results. There is no doubt that a small but growing number of universities around the country are using immersive education approaches to achieve critical educational outcomes. This article takes a look at several of these projects, each using slightly different immersive technologies, but all seeking to enhance student learning by merging digital and real environments, to achieve the best of both worlds. (Contains 3 online resources.) (ERIC).
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Update	2017/4/10