title: Using virtual environments to enhance nursing distance education.
abstract: Distance education has traditionally been two-dimensional, with limited interaction. Virtual environments enhance distance education learning through real-time interaction and social collaboration that mimic the real world. Virtual environments offer the option to create social and professional relationships that have been a missing component of distance learning.
authors.affiliation: Duke University School of Nursing, USA. beth.phillips@duke.edu
authors.forename: Beth
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Phillips
authors.forename: Ryan J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Shaw
authors.forename: Dori Taylor
authors.initials: DT
authors.lastname: Sullivan
authors.forename: Constance
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Johnson
mesh_terms: D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D018961:Educational Technology; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface