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Northern Health has recently launched virtual childbirth education classes to support expecting mothers and families in our community during this 
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A new game, loosely modeled after the spread of gonorrhea, offers a new way for researchers to study people’s motivations for choosing whether or not to use condoms, get flu shots or otherwise protect themselves from epidemics.
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They are set to demonstrate their work in a 3D show involving hi-tech screens and computers at Wembury village hall on December 13, starting at 7.30pm.
The team will reveal how a 3D reconstruction of the nearby coastal path is being developed to provide future rehabilitation benefits for patients at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
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A man paralysed almost entirely from the neck down navigates through a virtual world using a brain-computer interface. The subject was able to do so about 90% of the time.
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Virtual Birth Video in Second Life...
In the below video we see another Virtual Birth in Second Life. This video is particularly graphic. After the birth you see the 3d baby being washed and monitored before given to his mother. The video is about 6 minutes long.
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Key medical institutions have joined forces to liberate health education from its current physical limitations and have secured $4.5 million to develop online teaching tools that can be accessed via the national broadband network.
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Why use Virtual Worlds in Education? A really nice presentation given to the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield, in April 2010 by John from Virtual World Watch (VWW). They produce regular reports on ...
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The call for papers for the 3rd Global Conference: Experiential learning and Virtual Worlds interdisciplinary project.
KF: Many strands in this conference relate directly to Health and Medical Sciences (clinical practice, training and education)
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Children with social anxiety disorder often benefit from a setting that allows them to go at their own pace.
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People suffering from social anxiety could be helped to overcome their fears by taking part in virtual scenarios, research suggests.
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The Ikei Laboratory of Tokyo Metropolitan University Graduate School of System Design is developing virtual body technology that utilizes the five senses. In addition to using conventional audio and video footage, this technology can recreate smells as well as the feel of the wind and of stepping on the ground.
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The SWIFT project at the University of Leicester (Second World Immersive Future Teaching) has created a virtual genetics lab within the three-dimensional, virtual world of Second Life, to help students studying genetics and biological science. Phase one of SWIFT uses this virtual lab to help first year undergraduates become acclimatised to working in a laboratory; in particular to learn about the main pieces of equipment and the many health and safety factors involved.
In this video, PD Alchemi (Dr Paul Rudman) and Trinity Quicksand (Dr Suzanne Lavelle) introduce the SWIFT project and the virtual lab.
SWIFT is a three year research project by the departments of Genetics and Beyond Distance Research Alliance, and is funded by the Higher Education Academy National Teaching Fellowship Scheme (NTFS). The Principal Investigator is Prof.Annette Cashmore, researcher Dr Paul Rudman, genetics teacher/consultant Dr Suzanne Lavelle. Prof. Gilly Salmon was research director for the early part of SWIFT.
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More details about our MA Education in Virtual Worlds - detailing what opportunities will be available to students.
Thank you for your continuing interest in the MA Education in Virtual Worlds. This is a quick note to let you know that application processes for the programme can now be accessed from a single web page. From here you can apply for the whole programme, or individual modules with (£500) or without (£250) assessment. Modules beginning at the end of September this year are “Orientation in Virtual Worlds” and “Designing Curricula in Virtual Worlds”. Modules beginning at the end of January 2013 are “Scripting and Building” and “Simulation and Role Play”.
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White is the winner of the Science Prize for Inquiry-Based Instruction (IBI).
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The untapped potential of virtual game worlds to shed light on real world epidemics.
Simulation models are of increasing importance within the field of applied epidemiology. However, very little can be done to validate such models or to tailor their use to incorporate important human behaviours. In a recent incident in the virtual world of online gaming, the accidental inclusion of a disease-like phenomenon provided an excellent example of the potential of such systems to alleviate these modelling constraints. We discuss this incident and how appropriate exploitation of these gaming systems could greatly advance the capabilities of applied simulation modelling in infectious disease research.
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The Information Resources Management College (iCollege) of the National Defense University established the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds (FCVW) in July 2007. The consortium was created to explore multi-agency and intra- agency collaboration using the robust capabilities of virtual worlds, examining best practices across multiple sectors. The objective of the consortium is to help government agencies to share resources, training, and experience; leverage outreach capabilities and practices; connect to new partners and business opportunities; and demonstrate the benefits for virtual worlds’ collaborative capabilities
KF: This link provides access ot the keynotes and other presentations from this year's conference - "FCVWCON2012 Inspire the Future"- includes some Health related presentations - including, "The Future of Health Applications in Virtual Worlds: Challenges, Solutions, and Convergence"
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In higher education, we’ve been talking about “e-learning” for years.
"The future of today’s universities probably lies between the “massification” of online education – in which thousands or millions more students can learn the basic and common courses on an online adaptive system – and small tutorial sessions, utilising the benefits of face to face teaching.
From such “disruption” the best education will emerge if we manage to marry the interactive, intelligent and immersive possibilities of virtual worlds and instant digital communications tools with the talents and passion of great teachers."
KF: There are special implications for a range of disciplines - health sciences, performing arts, spatial sciences, etc where the experience of different physical realities has to play an important role in learning. The use of MUVEs, augmented reality and virtual reality is yet to be realised broadly in many of these areas. There will be a necessary development of thinking around how to utilise these technologies.
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