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Designing Empathy: The Role of a "Control Room" in an E-Learning Environment
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Gentes, Annie; Cambone, Marie – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2013
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to focus on the challenge of designing an interface for a virtual class, where being represented together contributes to the learning process. It explores the possibility of virtual empathy. Design/methodology/approach: The challenges are: How can this feeling of empathy be recreated through a delicate staging…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Electronic Learning, Empathy, Semiotics
New Technologies in Portugal: Regular Middle and High School
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Florentino, Teresa; Sanchez, Lucas; Joyanes, Luis – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to elaborate upon the relation between information and communication technologies (ICT), particularly web-based resources, and their use, programs and learning in Portuguese middle and high regular public schools. Design/methodology/approach: Adding collected documentation on curriculum, laws and other related…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Public Schools, Questionnaires, Information Technology
Supporting Distributed Team Working in 3D Virtual Worlds: A Case Study in Second Life
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Minocha, Shailey; Morse, David R. – Interactive Technology and Smart Education, 2010
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report on a study into how a three-dimensional (3D) virtual world (Second Life) can facilitate socialisation and team working among students working on a team project at a distance. This models the situation in many commercial sectors where work is increasingly being conducted across time zones and between…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Web Sites, Distance Education, Cooperation