This article presents a virtual environment of cooperative Web-based learning to support the teaching of Music, specifically Musical Harmony. Such environment offers support to both semi-distant learning courses and strict distant learning using Internet/Web. The aim of this work is to integrate artificial and human agents in an interactive environment endowed with access to several high qualit...

Cooperative and distant learning is a new promising way of learning. Several reasons can justify this approach. From the economical point of view distant learning allows students to learn from their locations and lets the teacher share his interventions between them. From the pedagogical point of view a cooperative learning permits to put in practice a new dimension of learning thanks to groups...

This paper demonstrates a model of an e-Learning system based on nowadays learning theory and distant education practice. The relationships in the model are designed to be simple and functional and do not necessarily represent any particular eLearning environments. It is meant to be a generic e-Learning system model with implications for any distant education course instructional design. It all...

Distant E-learning is a main issue nowadays, and it is strongly motivated by social and economical considerations. The increased people mobility and the reduction of educational costs push to develop ad hoc solutions enabling to access to knowledge regardless to geographical situation and economical capabilities. These parameters should not be limits for good training: learning material’s perti...

  Background : Studies have shown a gradual decline in empathy of medical trainees with increasing years of education. Methods to augment empathy show some promise, but the most effective methods are both expensive and time consuming.To assess effectiveness of communication skills training program as a distant learning method in improving empathy.   Method s: Fourteen first year residents of ps...

Distributing mixed realities in learning environments will open up new possibilities of local and distant cooperation in teaching and learning processes. Some requirements from the new vocational learning field mechatronics will be presented and our approach to meet them in a European Project, DERIVE-Distributed Real and Virtual Learning Environment, is shown.