VIRTUAL EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM OF POLAR ARCTIC TOURISM

15 Polar regions ( Arctic and Antarctic )

Generating Educational Tourism Narratives from Wikipedia

We present a narrative theory-based approach to data mining that generates cohesive stories from a Wikipedia corpus. This approach is based on a data mining-friendly view of narrative derived from narratology, and uses a prototype mining algorithm that implements this view. Our initial test case and focus is that of field-based educational tour narrative generation, for which we have successful...

Evaluation of medical education virtual program: P3 model

Introduction: In e-learning, people get involved in a processand create the content (product) and make it available for virtuallearners. The present study was carried out in order to evaluatethe first virtual master program in medical education at ShirazUniversity of Medical Sciences according to P3 Model.Methods: This is an evaluation research study with post singlegroup design used to determi...

Climate Change and Tourism in the Arctic Circle

We estimate grid level tourist numbers to Arctic Circle countries under a number of climate change scenarios. At present, the highest tourism volumes are found in Canada and most of the Scandinavian countries. In general, it appears that tourists are attracted to regions with better infrastructure and nicer cities. Under each climate change scenario, Russia sees a significant increase in touris...

Building virtual educational environment

Nowadays, when there are more students in teaching groups than before, new problems may appear in learning processes. One of these is how to teach automation programming to 40 students if there is only one machine available for testing the programs. As a solution for this challenge we use simulation and virtualization, depending of the definition. The main idea in our solution is to build up a ...