Kentucky Community Technical College System (KCTCS) is leading the way in 3D education by providing real-world experiences in the comfort of the classroom.
Coal miners go through underground safety inspections while others learn to size and install solar panels on a residential structure. Potential nurses perform IV maintenance, or adjust surgical tables with the wave of a wand. "With 3D technology users view a person, place or thing as it would appear in real life, says Marly Bergerud, vice president of education development at EON Reality, virtual reality and interactive provider based in Irvine, Calif. "This opens the door to a world, where students can learn about science anatomy, geography, architecture and astronomy by interacting with the content rather than reading about it in a textbook". " The students today grew up with gaming technology," said Bergerud, also a former educator. "Now in the classroom, they're looking at the talking head and saying 'I have to dummy down to go to school.'"
After the coal mining tragedies in 2006 in West Virginia, we decided a project could be built to provide instruction on the self-contained self-rescuers that miners use to improve training and increase safety," said Jamie Justice, director of visualized learning and innovation at KCTCS. "This simulation-based training application takes miners through daily inspection, has them go through parts and demonstrates how the breathing process works in addition to the actual donning process." Training simulations can be viewed on a laptop, a 3D stereo projection, which allows learning objects to pop out in the middle of the room, or in a 4 wall space called the CAVE. "Advances in technology and public awareness has bolstered these breakthroughs, Justice said, which will enable more colleges to integrate and use this technology in classrooms and programs". From the article "Welcome to 3-D Learning" by Russell Nichols Convergemag.com
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Interactive 3D Application Development: Using EON Professional for Creating 3D Visualizations will guide you through the application development process using EON Studio or EON Professional. This book contains interactive hands-on tutorials that will allow you to practice as you learn to use this very powerful software application. The content in the book is arranged in modules and developed in such a way that it enables you to choose specific topics to study on an as-needed basis which makes this book an indispensible tool for developing simplistic interactive objects to very high-end visualization applications.
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