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Practice Makes Perfect in Virtual World

Public health officials from the California Department of Health Services have created a massive online virtual training program. Researchers from the University of California-Davis Health System re-created a 3-D model of the California Exposition and State Fair in Second Life and conducted the training within that environment. Here is how it worked. Virtual patients flowed […]

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Visualizing Data in a 3D World

Not only can 3D worlds be used for the recreation of physcial spaces (not the best use) but they can also be used for “other worldly” interfaces…one such example is the visualization of information in ways not prevously possible. Visualizing 3D dataCheck out this article Visualization of Statistics in Virtual Reality As the article states: […]

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Alternatives to Second Life

Here is a list of alternatives to Second Life. Forterra Systems Inc. The company offers private, secure virtual worlds with tailored solutions based on industry and customer specific needs. The solutions are designed by Forterra to meet enterprise IT security and privacy needs. The flagship product of Forterra is OLIVE™ (On-Line Interactive Virtual Environment). OLIVE […]

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Physicians Resist CDSSs

I was doing some research for a presentation titled “Overcoming Resistance to Incorporating Technology Into the Hospital Environment” that I am giving shortly (today) and uncovered some really interesting information. First, getting Doctors to use new technology is a big deal and hard to do. Thus a large number of articles in medical journals are […]

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Award Press Release

In April, I was honored with an award for innovative excellence in teaching, learning and technology. Here is the photograph and the press release. Karl Kapp poses with teaching award. LOCAL COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR RECEIVES AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING, LEARNING, AND TECHNOLOGY International Conference on College Teaching and Learning Honors 40 Teaching Faculty The […]

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The Art of Making Video Games

I recently heard someone say “The next step in using video games for education is to teach students to create their own games.” Actually, this concept has been around for years (many, many years) and is now gaining wider spread press and adoption (think Logo). It seems like things in the learning field have a […]

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