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Virtual Environment for Creative and Collaborative Learning

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Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems

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New guidelines for Russian technical universities and creative industries require competitive professionals and as a result we are urged to apply novel educational methods to make their training efficient. This tendency calls for new tools to be adopted and implemented in the learning purposes. Russian modern curriculum is based on three levels of desirable exit qualifications students need to develop—Hard Skills, Soft Skills and Professional competencies in a specialized field. Novel not only in content but also in form Elective courses in Scientific Visualization, and Virtual Reality of Double Degree Master’s Program in Computational Science (ITMO University, Russian Federation and University of Amsterdam (UvA), The Netherlands) incorporate 3D anatomical atlas of human body, which became a prototype for the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). In this paper, we describe VLE architecture and our experience of its introduction to the master program courses and master theses preparation. We use our flexible VLE to acquire knowledge, develop collaborative skills, and monitor knowledge acquisition within the same unified environment using varied methods.

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This paper is supported by Russian Scientific Foundation, grant #14-11-00823.

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    Anna Bilyatdinova, Andrey Karsakov, Alexey Bezgodov & Alexey Dukhanov

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  1. and Technology, JAIST - Japan Advanced Institute for Sci, Kanazawa, Japan

    Susumu Kunifuji

  2. Dept of Computer Science, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus

    George Angelos Papadopoulos

  3. Dept. of Automatic Control & Biom. Eng., AGH University of Science and Technology, KrakĂłw, Poland

    Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski

  4. Systems Res Inst, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk  

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Bilyatdinova, A., Karsakov, A., Bezgodov, A., Dukhanov, A. (2016). Virtual Environment for Creative and Collaborative Learning. In: Kunifuji, S., Papadopoulos, G., Skulimowski, A., Kacprzyk  , J. (eds) Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 416. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27478-2_26

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