Usalpharma: A Cloud-Based Architecture to Support Quality Assurance Training Processes in Health Area Using Virtual Worlds

Abstract

This paper discusses how cloud-based architectures can extend and enhance the functionality of the training environments based on virtual worlds and how, from this cloud perspective, we can provide support to analysis of training processes in the area of health, specifically in the field of training processes in quality assurance for pharmaceutical laboratories, presenting a tool for data retrieval and analysis that allows facing the knowledge discovery in the happenings inside the virtual worlds.

Una revisión actualizada del concepto de eLearning. Décimo Aniversario

“…Los mundos virtuales, como espacios interactivos en los que varias personas pueden acceder e interaccionar simultáneamente representados por un avatar 3D (García-Peñalvo, cruz-Benito, & therón, 2014), suscitaron mucho interés por su potencial para facilitar aprendizaje basado en roles, gracias a los beneficios que aportan en aspectos como simulación, representación física de construcciones lógicas, entornos mediados, uso de roles y creatividad. Sin embargo, los mundos virtuales no han tenido un uso demasiado exhaustivo, quizás en parte debido a que tienen su dificultad de uso y se han intentado utilizar para objetivos educativos que pueden atenderse de manera más sencilla y efectiva mediante otras tecnologías, por más que hay casos en los que su uso educativo ha sido interesante y exitoso (Allison & Miller, 2012;Baker, Wentz, & Woods, 2009;Pizarro Lucas, cruz-Benito, & Gil Gonzalo, 2013;Warburton, 2009), destacando, por ejemplo, en el área de la salud (Beard, Wilson, Morra, & Keelan, 2009; García-Peñalvo, cruz-Benito, Maderuelo, Pérez- Blanco, & Martín-Suárez, 2014;Melús-Palazón et al, 2012;Patel, Aggarwal, cohen, taylor, & Darzi, 2013). el término Mooc se define por primera vez en 2008 para describir el curso Connectivism and Connected Knowledge desarrollado por George Siemens y otros (http://cckno8.…”

Discovering usage behaviors and engagement in an Educational Virtual World

“…Does this study differ from similar studies of other systems used for learning? As many authors agree, among the community that engages in the formal use of Educational Virtual Worlds and retrieves information from these systems, many researchers and early adopters of this type of environment for education have recognized a gap between the events inside the virtual world and the teachers' knowledge of these events (Atkinson, 2008;García-Peñalvo, Cruz-Benito, Maderuelo, Pérez-Blanco, & Martín-Suárez, 2014;Warburton, 2009). This gap cannot be addressed easily.…”

Monitoring and feedback of learning processes in virtual worlds through analytics architectures: A real case

“…5) Presentation layer: is responsible for retrieving the information requested by the user or any application that could be integrated with this architecture and present it in a proper way for each type of request. In our approach [7], the users are at the center of the architecture, since their interaction, both in the virtual world as the data presentation layer, leads the operation of the software components.…”