The Impact of Virtual Education on Enhancing Creative Thinking for University Students

Depends on the revolution of electronic communication and network-based learning there are many concepts upraised lately such as :

Virtual Classrooms, Virtual Schools, Virtual Libraries & Virtual Museums. And all of these concepts belongs to Virtual Education which concerns with creating virtual environment to educate students which can’t interact with real environment because of many reasons such as : time limits , the distance and the cost of learning.

Virtual Education is not just a simulation of factual happenings but it concerns with improving enhanced user interface connecting the student with virtual environment, so virtual education has different strategies from traditional CAL . The importance of virtual education is not to introduce the information but how can you make the student positive and able to search for the information and manipulate the interface elements to get this information .

Virtual Education provides many strategies such as : navigation through hyper links, walk through 3D prospective , Direct Manipulation, and safe investigation .

One of the V.E. Applications is Virtual Museum on the Internet where visitors can walk through deferent departments , see movable 3D prospective and use different resources like videos, sounds, print topics, download graphics and hyperlinked with many Subjective references like Encyclopedias, Glossaries, biographies &ldots;etc.

The researcher is embarking on Ph.D. Dissertation which emphasis's the problems facing a newly developing countries as Egypt to lay the road towards the virtual education as a mean to penetrate the new world.

 

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