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Virtual Reality and Online Databases: Will "Look and Feel" Literally Mean "Look" and "Feel"? [and]"Online" Interviews Dr. Thomas A. Furness III, Virtual Reality Pioneer.
Miller, Carmen – Online, 1992
The first of two articles discusses virtual reality (VR) and online databases; the second one reports on an interview with Thomas A. Furness III, who defines VR and explains work at the Human Interface Technology Laboratory (HIT). Sidebars contain a glossary of VR terms and a conversation with Toni Emerson, the HIT lab's librarian. (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Consortia, Databases, Glossaries
Embedded Training: The New Look of Computer-Based Instruction.
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Kearsley, Greg – Machine-Mediated Learning, 1985
Describes three principal types of embedded training: help systems, simulations, and intelligent tutors. Implications of designing and implementing embedded training are discussed in terms of a set of propositions about the use of computers for learning. (Author/MBR)
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Classification, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation
Accounting as Evaluation, as Reporting: The Uses of Online Accounting Systems.
Clark, Philip M. – Drexel Library Quarterly, 1985
Describes the use of online accounting systems as a means of integrating diverse data and providing different levels of analysis for managers. An appendix provides examples of reports produced by online systems. (CLB)
Descriptors: Accounting, Computer Simulation, Computer Software, Cost Effectiveness
Computers in Elementary Education.
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Teague, Marianne; And Others – Education and Computing, 1987
Three articles discuss various aspects of computers in elementary education: (1) the use of electronic information services with elementary students in Maryland; (2) the introduction of computers into classrooms with students aged 10-12 in Switzerland; and (3) the use of microcomputer-based simulation in the United Kingdom to encourage…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Databases, Developed Nations
Merging Libraries and Computer Centers: Manifest Destiny or Manifestly Deranged? An Academic Services Perspective.
Neff, Raymond K. – EDUCOM Bulletin, 1985
Details trends in information access, services, packaging, dissemination, and networking, service fees, archival storage devices, and electronic information packaging that could lead to complete mergers of academic libraries and computing centers with shared responsibilities. University of California at Berkeley's comprehensive strategy for…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Computer Simulation, Educational Cooperation, Fees
Electronic Text: An Amalgam of Capabilities for Creating, Informing, and Instructing. Monograph Number Two of the Electronic Text Monograph Series.
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Allen, Brockenbrough S.; And Others – 1985
This paper argues that electronic text applications in higher education can be conceptualized in terms of three communicational intentions of computer-based systems: informational, instructional, and instrumental (tool-oriented). Product-oriented and service-oriented applications of electronic text are contrasted, and instructional applications…
Descriptors: Authoring Aids (Programing), Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Software
Tracking the Missing Biologist.
Morgenstern, Douglas; Murray, Janet H. – Humanities, 1995
Describes an interactive computer simulation where the student assumes the role of a reporter searching for a missing biologist in Columbia. The search involves simulated news broadcasts, documentary footage, and interviews with Colombians, all in Spanish. The student accesses help via electronic archives (translated words) and faxing the editor.…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Cybernetics