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Virtual health education: Scaling practice to transform student learning: Using virtual reality learning environments in healthcare education to bridge the theory/practice gap and improve patient safety (2018)
Journal Article
King, D., Tee, S., Falconer, L., Angell, C., Holley, D., & Mills, A. (2018). Virtual health education: Scaling practice to transform student learning: Using virtual reality learning environments in healthcare education to bridge the theory/practice gap and improve patient safety. Nurse Education Today, 71, 7-9. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2018.08.002

© 2018 The advancements in and affordability of technologies offer increasing opportunities to modernise healthcare education into packages developed to meet the expectations and requirements of the digital generation. Purposefully designed and teste... Read More about Virtual health education: Scaling practice to transform student learning: Using virtual reality learning environments in healthcare education to bridge the theory/practice gap and improve patient safety.

Review of Savin-Baden M. (2015). Rethinking learning in an age of digital fluency: Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus? (2018)
Journal Article
Falconer, L. (2019). Review of Savin-Baden M. (2015). Rethinking learning in an age of digital fluency: Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus?. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-018-0014-7

Being connected through online and digital technologies has become increasingly commonplace over the past 20 years, but our understanding of the effect this has on where and how people learn has tended to be patchy at best. In Rethinking Learning in... Read More about Review of Savin-Baden M. (2015). Rethinking learning in an age of digital fluency: Is being digitally tethered a new learning nexus?.

Virtual Avebury: An immersive partnership (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Welham, K., Burden, D., Cleal, R., Falconer, L., Hoyte, R., Phelps, P., …Snashall, N. (2018, April). Virtual Avebury: An immersive partnership. Paper presented at Check Object Integrity, Krakow, Poland

This presentation describes the AHRC/EPSRC funded partnership between Bournemouth University, Daden Ltd, Satsymph and The National Trust, to create and test a fully immersive 3D simulation of Avebury Henge in Wiltshire, circa 2,300 BCE. We discuss th... Read More about Virtual Avebury: An immersive partnership.

Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions (2018)
Book
Falconer, L., & Gil Ortega, M. C. (2018). L. Falconer, & M. C. Gil Ortega (Eds.), Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions. New York: Nova Science Publishers

Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions explores the rich and fascinating topic of virtual worlds by bringing together research findings and discussion pieces from an international group of leading practitioners in the field. The... Read More about Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions.

Phenomenology and phenomenography in virtual worlds: An example from archaeology (2018)
Book Chapter
Falconer, L., & Scott, C. (2018). Phenomenology and phenomenography in virtual worlds: An example from archaeology. In L. Falconer, & M. C. Gil Ortega (Eds.), Virtual Worlds: Concepts, Applications and Future Directions (1-38). New York: Nova Science Publishers

This chapter discusses a project to construct a simulation of Avebury Henge, a Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age monument in the SW of the U.K., in a 3D, virtual world environment, and to use phenomenological and phenomenographic methods for its evalua... Read More about Phenomenology and phenomenography in virtual worlds: An example from archaeology.