Evaluation of the benefit of VR simulation in a multi-media web-based educational tool

WebSET is an Internet based educational tool that can be used on any standard personal computer. It has been developed by a European collaboration and integrates high quality multimedia learning materials with VR simulation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefit of the VR simulation on t...

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Published inStudies in health technology and informatics Vol. 98; p. 247
Main Authors Moorthy, K, Mansoori, M, Bello, F, Hance, J, Undre, S, Munz, Y, Darzi, A
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Netherlands 2004
Subjects
Computer-Assisted Instruction
Humans
Internet
Psychomotor Performance
Spinal Puncture
United Kingdom
User-Computer Interface
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ISSN0926-9630

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Summary:WebSET is an Internet based educational tool that can be used on any standard personal computer. It has been developed by a European collaboration and integrates high quality multimedia learning materials with VR simulation. The aim of this study was to evaluate the benefit of the VR simulation on the learning of procedure based psychomotor skills. Subjects were divided into three groups. The group that used the entire package including the VR simulation were superior to the group that used only the multimedia component in terms of the their procedural skills in the post-training assessment. Both groups performed better than the controls.
ISSN:0926-9630