Using virtual environments to enhance nursing distance education.
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.
Phillips
Beth
B
Duke University School of Nursing, USA. beth.phillips@duke.edu
Shaw
Ryan J
RJ
Sullivan
Dori Taylor
DT
Johnson
Constance
C
D020375:Education, Distance / Q000379:methods*; D004506:Education, Nursing / Q000379:methods*; D018961:Educational Technology; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States; D014584:User-Computer Interface