Health-care education and training: out of the hospital and into higher education

Advances in information technology bring progress in distance education. Online education programs are pervasive, however, only recently has the Web 2.0 brought about interactive, dynamic distance based health care education in virtual worlds (VWs). VWs allow for real time representations of environments, manipulable objects and interactions between avatars or bots, creating a sense of realism and presence that is absent in traditional, flat online education. Presence has been linked to knowledge transfer and better learning. Second Life®, currently the largest virtual world, has been used in higher education, including health care education at the Duke University School of Nursing. Students have indicated higher levels of satisfaction with the learning environment and quality of instruction in this VW compared to other online learning systems. There is a need for further research in online education in VWs, and room for growth in applications of VWs in education.

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Introduction of New Forms of Education in Modern Higher and Vocational Education and Training

International Journal of Higher Education ◽

10.5430/ijhe.v9n7p107 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (7) ◽

pp. 107

Author(s):

Liudmyla I. Berezovska ◽

Galyna D. Kondratska ◽

Anna A. Zarytska ◽

Kateryna S. Volkova ◽

Taras M. Matsevko

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Vocational Education ◽

Education System ◽

Comparative Method ◽

Developed Countries ◽

Education And Training ◽

Educational Process ◽

Vocational Education And Training ◽

National Education ◽

And Training

This article sets sights on highlighting the effectiveness and efficiency of higher and vocational education and training, as well as exploring ways to address and implement the current reform agenda in the field. The research was conducted on the basis of a generalizing and comparative method, to identify the problems and development of vocational and higher education. Within the framework of the conducted research the current state of vocational and higher education has been characterized; the features of online learning at leading universities and its advantages has been clarified; the prospects of introduction of continuity of education have been studied, for the development of personality abilities, taking into account changes in society in the context of improvement of the system of vocational and higher education caused by the European integration process of education; directions for the development of vocational and higher education as part of the national education system and society in general have been outlined. It is determined, that at the present stage the domestic education system should be improved and transferred to an innovative way of development in accordance with developed countries. In the near future, such modern forms of education as: distance education, dual education, continuing vocational education and others, should be improved and implemented into the educational process.

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