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20. Establishing a Virtual Clinical Research Laboratory: the Consortium for Advancement Through Research and Education in Plastic Surgery (CARE) Experience

20. Establishing a Virtual Clinical Research Laboratory: the Consortium for Advancement Through Research and Education in Plastic Surgery (CARE) Experience

Virtual research laboratory in foreign language teaching: Strategies and role

With the growth of technology and the availability of virtual tools, the creation of interactive and dynamic learning environments that increase students’ interest and motivation becomes relevant and possible. The study aimed to analyse and evaluate the effectiveness of using virtual laboratories in the process of learning foreign languages. Analytical research methods, generalisation, systematisation, and surveying were used in the research. The study demonstrated that virtual reality (VR) could change the traditional approach to language learning through immersive experiences of students’ interaction with language structures. The article highlighted technical and pedagogical challenges that require an integrated approach. The study confirmed that mobile learning and augmented reality (AR) offer new education opportunities, providing interactivity and personalisation. The research concluded that augmented reality could improve the learning of complex concepts and increase student motivation. This article highlighted a need for effective pedagogical strategies for the successful implementation of virtual reality and augmented reality. A survey of students at Northwest Normal University was also conducted. The survey of students who use virtual labs to learn foreign languages indicates that they are more effective and useful for the learning process, including the use of Duolingo, Rosetta Stone, Babbel, Memrise, Busuu, Lingodeer, BBC Languages, and Italki. Although the majority of students have a positive attitude towards this technology, some prefer traditional methods, which indicates the need for additional adaptation and support of virtual resources to ensure their optimal effectiveness. The study findings can be used to adapt existing foreign language curricula and courses to the use of virtual research laboratory tools

Virtual school research laboratory with grammar: scientific education in mother language classes

Resumo Este artigo descreve uma estratégia inovadora do estudo da gramática, em aulas de Língua Portuguesa, em uma escola pública brasileira. Tal estratégia foi mediada por materiais didáticos produzidos colaborativamente por representantes de escola básica e de universidade, orientados pela abordagem investigativa e pedagógica da educação científica, desenvolvida no campo indisciplinar da Linguística Aplicada. Trata-se de uma investigação interventiva caracterizada como uma pesquisa baseada em design , pois se assume o esforço colaborativo para o aprimoramento da prática de ensino e para o fortalecimento de teorias de referência. É uma pesquisa financiada pelo governo federal do Brasil, dentro do Programa Ciência na Escola (PCE). A análise comparativa de respostas compartilhadas por estudante, em entrevistas orais realizadas por suas professoras, antes e depois da intervenção pedagógica, revelou uma expressiva ressignificação de representações discentes sobre aulas de língua materna, gramática, pesquisa e ciência. Isso resultou na superação de compreensões pelos estudantes, as quais foram compartilhadas previamente de forma ampla e equivocada.

ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ ЗМІШАНОЇ РЕАЛЬНОСТІ В ОСВІТІ

An important trend in today’s conditions (Russia’s military aggression, the COVID-19 pandemic) is the use of information and communication technologies in the modern educational process, including virtual reality technologies. Scientists of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine pay considerable attention to the use of virtual reality technologies in education in Ukraine. Their works reflect the accumulated domestic and foreign experience in working with virtual reality technologies, the introduction of virtual reality platforms in distance learning. In their research, researchers note that virtual reality technologies, as an effective tool of the educational process, have great potential for solving problems of the educational process. In their work, scientists note that the prospect of further research is the mass introduction into the educational process of modern educational institutions of virtual reality technologies, as well as the development of methodological and didactic materials for their effective use.In their work, scientists and practitioners of educational institutions pay considerable attention to one of the promising areas of application of virtual information technology, in particular the development of virtual laboratories. These software environments can serve to provide a better level of learning material and with which you can make it more saturated, visual, bright and accessible. A virtual learning environment allows you to model the behavior of real-world objects in a computer environment and promotes the acquisition of new knowledge and skills on a more conscious and deeper level. The issue of virtual laboratories is widely covered in the foreign press. First of all, there are the problems of implementing a virtual laboratory for medical students, such as nurses and exercise specialists, and the work of a virtual educational research laboratory in the nuclear field, including the development of 3D models of the TRIGA reactor using virtual reality models.

Providing a Meaningful Virtual Research Laboratory Experience for Osteopathic Medical Students

Modern medical education embraces the education of the student beyond patient-centered preparations, instilling the ability to assess and evaluate many categories of information. The International Association of Medical Science Educators’ (IAMSE) mission statement emphasizes that science is the basis for the practice of modern healthcare. Research and the ability to interpret and understand the research method are core competencies and Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) that all graduating medical students should be able to demonstrate. To meet student needs for research experience during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, in which the traditional in person research experience was not viable, the Virtual Research Laboratory (VRL) was designed as a three-part virtual experience in which laboratory technique webinars, journal club articles and laboratory data review would be interleaved weekly with a laboratory-relevant theme. All interactions were virtual and conducted via Google Meets platform, by email and document sharing/editing. The success and feasibility of the Virtual Research Lab were assessed via a survey covering the broad concepts of overall perception, communication and workflow, teamwork and peer mentoring, and adherence to proposed learning outcomes for the Virtual Research Lab. Overall, in each of these categories, the cohort feedback was positive at greater than 75% in each category. The strongest elements of the Virtual Research Lab were the organized teamwork/peer mentoring and the workflow/communication methods each scoring between 92% and 100% positive. We have demonstrated that the Virtual Research Lab is a meaningful experience by engaging and improving the student's gain, retention and applicability of research knowledge and critical thinking skills.

Application of augmented reality technologies for education projects preparation

After analysis of scientific literature, we defined that concept of “augmented reality” has following synonyms: “advanced reality”, “improved reality”, “enriched reality”, “mixed reality” and “hybrid reality”. Analysis of scientific literature and own practical experience of the use of augmented reality technologies application in educational practices allowed to state next: augmented reality technologies have a great potential for application in education; there are some cases of augmented reality use for school education; positive aspects of augmented reality technologies application in higher education institutions are confirmed by experiments (isolated cases); only few universities in Ukraine apply augmented reality technologies to educate students; only few universities in Ukraine have special subjects or modules in schedule to teach students to develop augmented reality technologies; various scientific events, mass events, competitions are held in Ukraine, and specialized training on the augmentation of augmented reality technologies is carried out, but this is non-systematic and does not have special state orientation and support. Features of introduction of virtual and augmented reality technologies at Sumy State University (Ukraine) are identified: “e-learning ecosystems” was created; in 2019, augmented and virtual reality research laboratory was established. Advantages and disadvantages of project activity in education are described: project activity is one of the most important components of educational process; it promotes creative self-development and self-realization of project implementers and forms various life competencies. It is determined that augmented reality application for implementation of educational projects will help: to increase students’ interest for educational material; formation of new competences; increase of students’ motivation for independent educational and cognitive activity; activation of educational activities; formation of positive motivation for personal and professional growth; conditions creation for development of personal qualities (creativity, teamwork, etc.). Current trends in implementation of educational projects were identified: most of the winner projects were implemented using augmented reality technology; augmented reality technologies were used in projects to teach different disciplines in higher education institutions. Augmented reality technology application for project activity has positive impact on learning outcomes and competitiveness of the national workforce; it will enhance the country’s position in the global economic space.

Virtual training and research laboratory of technological processes of chemical-technological systems

Virtual training and research laboratory of technological processes of chemical-technological systems

Virtual organizational design laboratory: Agent-based modeling of the co-evolution of social service delivery networks with population dynamics

This paper extends the concept of biological co-evolution to explain the performance and survival of one type of service organizations. It proposes that service delivery network design would benefit from complex adaptive systems (CAS) modeling approaches to recreate organizational phenomena driven by the interaction of the organization with its operating environment. This approach, paired with experimental design methods can serve as a virtual laboratory.We take the case of social service delivery (SSD) organizations that are structured as nonprofit organizations providing humanitarian assistance and relief services. These organizations often serve different geographical regions, thus, racial composition, migration patterns, and wealth of the populations served are factors that vary between locations. SSDs operate through service nodes (i.e., field offices, chapters, branches) in a network configuration. Therefore, the managerial decision of where to locate the field offices is an important one. An agent-based model to recreate agents’ interactions as proxies of those exchanges occurring in real SSD settings is used. A series of validation experiments instill confidence that our model can be used as a virtual research laboratory. This paper contributes to the field of organizational design by testing a model able to recreate different policies that combined with different operating conditions impact the network over time and space. In addition, it provides experimental insights on what type of network configuration might provide a higher number of services delivered over time across the service network. The results can inform those defining the service system architecture looking to achieve SSD's goals considering the demographics of the markets served.

A complex adaptive systems perspective of innovation diffusion: an integrated theory and validated virtual laboratory

In this paper we integrate the rich yet fragmented insights from the extensive literature on the diffusion of innovation into an elegant, coherent model. Using complex adaptive systems theory as the overarching framework, we integrate prior literature around three constructs: agents, interactions, and an environment. The integrated model is presented in both natural language and as an agent-based simulation model. A series of validation experiments instill confidence that our agent-based model (and similar others) can be used as a virtual research laboratory. We provide theoretical and methodological directions for future research.

Discrete Simulation of the Remote Access to the Resources of a Virtual Research Laboratory

This article discusses the problem of an evaluation of the remote access to the resources of a Virtual Research Lab (VRL) and information servicing investigation by using queuing model and program simulation. The results presented here are the final part of general investigation of proposed architecture of the VRL developed in the frame of two years scientific project. Some results from the initial phases of the investigation (functional, deterministic and stochastic modeling) are discussed in other publications of the author. The purpose of this article is to present a simulation organization and performance factors evaluation of the remote access and information servicing in the VRL. In this connection formalization and an abstract model are made. An extension of this formalization based on the queuing theory is made and a general queuing model for the simulation organization is developed. The program realization of the simulation experiments is made by using the system WebGPSS. Object of investigation is the user access to the resources and some variants are evaluated, for example 'single-user access to a single resource' and 'multiple-user access to multiple resources'. Some experimental results are discussed. Different assessments for the components that take part in the remote access are calculated and presented (utilization, workload, waiting time, etc.)

The Inter-Life Project: Inter-Cultural Spaces for Young People to Use Creative Practices and Research to Assist with Life Changes and Transition

The aim of the Inter-Life Project was to investigate the use of virtual worlds and creative practices to support the acquisition of transition skills for young people to enhance their management of important life events. In particular, the authors have been investigating the role of the Inter-Life virtual worlds in supporting the development of life transition skills in young people, some of whom were in the care of local authorities. Creative practices, such as photography, digital storytelling and filmmaking, were used as a vehicle to enable young people to access and develop new personal and shared narratives as they worked together with researchers over an extended period on ‘Inter-Life Island’. The Inter-Life Project created an embryonic virtual social research laboratory in order to study how young people can use a virtual world creatively, working together as a research community to develop skills that will help them navigate their key life transitions. The project focuses on how participants act and develop in Inter-Life, while engaged in co-designed creative and research activities. It also examines how the skills and understandings that were developed through a range of creative practices map onto their real-world experience. The project environments (based upon the commercial platform ‘Second Life’) incorporate ‘in-world’ data-gathering tools (as distinct from the ‘transition tools' created for the participants' use) that support content analysis. Such data enable the analysis of complex activities in the virtual world using activity theory as a theoretical perspective. The skills acquired and the development of identities as young people engage in shared activities are reported and analysed. The article concludes by assessing the potential of augmented 3D digital technologies to assist young people in the social and emotional challenges of transition in their lives. It also considers the potential of 3D environments to support student transitions in higher education, with particular reference to art and design education.

Deterministic modeling and evaluation of a virtual research laboratory by using Petri nets

The purpose of the virtual laboratory is to propose an intellectual space for organization of the on-line work in specialized field of knowledge. The research presented in this paper is linked with the research carried out within the frame work of a two year scientific project. The main goal of the project team is to develop a Virtual Research Laboratory (VRL) as a collection of relatively independent distributed virtual mediums, search machine, software instruments and tools for specific research organization in the field of the modern electronic and computer technologies. The life cycle models for software development propose a system investigation and evaluation by using suitable apparatus to determine the adequate structural organization during the phase of the architectural design. In this reason, the goal of this paper is to present an investigation of the defined architecture by using the asynchronous apparatus of Petri Nets (PN) as a second phase of the project work concerning the VRL development. The PN model defining and the carried out research are based on the results obtained during the first phase of the project work – conceptual model defining, formalization, preliminary evaluation and general architecture building. The formal description is based on the fact that each process of the information servicing in the virtual environment could be treated as a sequence of events (states) that generates requests for access to different information resources (relations) via Internet. This formal description permits to make a deterministic model of the information service as a sequence of active events and transactions between them that could be realized by the asynchronous PN apparatus. The defined PN-model describes the evaluated object as a sequence of events (presented by transactions) that could be realized if all related conditions (presented by input places) are fulfilled. In this reason the PN model describes the information servicing in the evaluated VRL as a collection of transactions and position with defined relations between them. Some important experimental results and assessments are discussed.

AVATAR and the Politics of Protocell Architecture

AbstractThe Advanced Virtual and Technological Architecture Research Laboratory (AVATAR) was founded in 2004 at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London (UCL). The original remit was to provide a forum for staff and their units to exchange and share their explorations into the digital and visceral terrain. With Neil Spiller's appointment in September 2011 as Dean of the School of Architecture and Construction at the University of Greenwich, the centre of research has shifted south to Greenwich. Here, one of the principle proponents of AVATAR, Nic Clear describes why, given the present economic and political situation, Protocell Architecture has provided the group with such a fecund field of research. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

大規模シミュレーションに要求される画像解析システム

From the year 2000 to 2002, the super computer system located on Naka Fusion Research Establishment, Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute (JAERI) has been replaced. Since it is the massively parallel scalar computer with 768Gflops, the amount of data outputted from the numerical simulation becomes much larger and is about several hundred Gbytes. In this paper, which scientific visual analysis system is more useful to extract and understand physical phenomena from the large amount of data is investigated and the performance of the established system is estimated.From the year 2001, Information Technology-Based Laboratory (ITBL) project has progressed and its basic technology has been developed collaboratively between Center for Promotion of Computational Science and Engineering (CCSE), JAERI and Institute of Physical and Chemical Research. ITBL aims to construct the virtual collaborative research laboratory on SuperSINET, where large-scale simulations can be carried out as well as large-scale experimental institutions can be used through Internet. The visualization software PATRAS, which has been developed on ITBL, is introduced.

Constructing a virtual training laboratory using intelligent agents

This paper reports on the results and experiences of the Trilogy project; a collaborative project concerned with the development of a virtual research laboratory using intelligence agents. This laboratory is designed to support the training of research students in telecommunications traffic engineering. Training research students involves a number of basic activities. They may seek guidance from, or exchange ideas with, more experienced colleagues. High quality academic papers, books and research reports provide a sound basis for developing and maintaining a good understanding of an area of research. Experimental tools enable new ideas to be evaluated, and hypotheses tested. These three components-collaboration, information and experimentation- are central to any research activity, and a good training environment for research should integrate them in a seamless fashion. To this end, we describe the design and implementation of an agent-based virtual laboratory.