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Social Virtual Reality and Education: But why is everything so hard to do?!

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

AEI researchers Goldsworthy and Honebein have an article recently accepted for publication in Educational Technology for 2010. They stipulate the virtual worlds aren’t really good for much, but that perhaps the one unique quality about them that has educational benefit is that social virtual worlds are, well, social, and that learning projects that have social objectives might just benefit from the social aspects of virtual worlds. They’d allow, among other things, people to practice social skills and yet not be physically co-present…. This article is the story of our experiences….

But why is everything so hard to do?
exploring learning and the COMPLEXITY factor IN social virtual reality

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AEI Awarded $900K NIH Challenge Grant to Improve Diabetes Care

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Academic Edge, Inc., a 15 year old Bloomington-based educational research and development company, has been awarded a 1 year/$900K grant to explore ways to improve diabetes care. Funded by the National Library of Medicine, a part of the Niational Institutes of Health, the effort is a joint project between AEI and Indiana University School of Medicine’s Diabetes Translational Research Center.

There are over 24 million individuals affected by diabetes in the United States.  However, optimal diabetes care is often not achieved in the real world. A significant barrier to such care is limited “face time”—the amount of time available for patients to interact with their healthcare providers during any particular office visit. Put simply, healthcare providers often do not have time to support the patient, and even when a doctor { read more }