Visit #3: Innovation in Learning Inc-host Dr. Parvati Dev

-Dr. Parvati Dev is joind by Dr. LeRoy-OBGYN, a Multimedia Medical-Educator at heart, clinicial too
-They explore virtual worlds for education and learning
-They focus on helping people learn by doing
-It’s not just what you do, it is how you work with people
-Surgery as an orchestrated ballet (in their opinion)
-Virtual worlds in health are important so that folks can learn to dance with others

Coffee Read #6: Complex Manifesto
Article about medical virtual environments: http://tinyurl.com/y35sv2p

How this works:
-Instructors invite Avatars to class (ten at a time) to learn
-Security is important to avoid the “Griefers” that are problems in second life
-The experience encourages doctors to consider: What could it be? What is the problem?-the critical thinking of a doctor

Challenges of this program:
-Hard to do non-verbals in this world
-Diversity considerations