Collaborative virtual environment model for medical e-learning

  • Authors:
  • Samir M. Abd El-Razek;Hazem M. El-Bakry;Wael F. Abd El-Wahed;Nikos Mastorakis

  • Affiliations:
  • Faculty of Computer Science & Information system, Mansoura University, Egypt;Faculty of Computer Science & Information system, Mansoura University, Egypt;Faculty of Computer Science & Information system, Menofya University, Egypt;University of Sofia, Bulgaria

  • Venue:
  • ACACOS'10 Proceedings of the 9th WSEAS international conference on Applied computer and applied computational science
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

In this paper we present the modeling process of a collaborative virtual environment for medical e-learning. The goal of this research is to allow medicine students to simulate a medical consultation on a virtual patient, using the current pedagogical methods based on clinical cases and integrating web technology methods. The environment is composed of a set of cooperative platform independent tools that allows students to simulate a consultation at distance on a virtual patient that can be designed easily by the teacher. Using multimedia data exchange, the simulation is more realistic than a face-to-face simulation. Information can be shared between students and teacher in multimedia various forms like text, audio, video, and whiteboard.