Envisioning the future of patient safety is more than an academic exercise. Appealing visions can help channel human energies, set new directions, and open the doors to alternative approaches. Eight thought leaders participated in an exercise of envisioning patient safety in the year 2025. Two tasks were assigned for preparing a brief response. The first task simply called for the invited thoug...

This paper addresses future pedestrian accident scenarios involving next decade of small electric vehicles (SEVs) employed primarily in urban areas in 2025. The methodology used to predict the most relevant accident scenarios in 2025, in terms of speeds, impact locations, vehicle designs and inner-city boundaries, includes four main steps and as an example, the first three steps are shown for p...

This paper outlines the current state of learning, the problems arising and research needed by developers and educators using Virtual Worlds as an intelligent learning environment. Artificially intelligent avatars are required for virtual on-line problem and case based learning. However, the use of AI requires extra supportive frameworks, models and both staff and student goals. Natural simulat...

Executive Summary For academic librarians seeking to demonstrate the value of their libraries to their parent institutions, it is important to understand not only the current climate. We must also know what will be valued in the future so that we can begin to take appropriate action now. This document presents 26 possible scenarios based on an implications assessment of current trends, which ma...

Jeroen Huisman is professor at the University of Bath, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. Harry de Boer is senior research associate at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. E-mail: [email protected]. Paulo Charles Pimentel Bótas is research officer at the University of Bath, UK. E-mail: [email protected]. For those interested, the full scenarios can be found in Higher Education Quar...