Discussion Forum (5)

• Virtual Learning - Virtual Reality
• Models and Methodologies
• Technologies and Software Solutions

The papers describing advances in the theory and practice of Virtual Environments for Education and Training (VEL&T), Virtual Reality (VR), Information and Knowledge Processing (I&KP), as well as practical results and original applications. The education category includes both the use of Web Technologies, Computer Graphics and Virtual Reality Applications, New tools, methods, pedagogy and psychology, Case studies of Web Technologies and Streaming Multimedia Applications in Education, experience in preparation of courseware.
Science Daily - Science News

# To promote and develop scientific research for e-Learning, Educational Software and Virtual Reality
# To create a framework for a large scale introduction of the e-Learning approaches in teaching activity.
# To assist the teaching staff and ICT professionals in the usage of the modern technologies for teaching both in the initial and adult education.

"All what is correct thinking is either mathematics or feasible to be transposed in a mathematical model."
Grigore C. Moisil (1906-1973), întemeietorul informaticii româneşti

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different outcome.”
Albert Einstein

Thinking and Reasoning
Six Questions for Effective Thinking and Problem - Solving “IDEALS”:
1. Identify the problem. — “What’s the real question we’re facing here?”
2. Define the context. — “What are the facts and circumstances that frame this problem?”
3. Enumerate choices. — “What are our most plausible three or four options?”
4. Analyze options. — “What is our best course of action, all things considered?”
5. List reasons explicitly. — “Exactly why we are making this choice rather than another?”
6. Self-correct. — “Okay, let’s look at it again. What did we miss?”
Dr. Peter Facione,
Critical Thinking, 2009
Center for Science, Technology & Society

The Critical Thinking Community

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- Systems Thinking software , iThink - Systems Thinking for Business
www.iseesystems.com
www.thinking.net
www.thinkingsystems.com
- Modelling & Simulation, 3D Models
www.acroneng.com, 3D Modeller
www.bdi.com, bionatics.com/, delta3d.org

"Wisdom is the daughter of experience."
"Înţelepciunea este fiica experienţei." | Inventii
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519) "An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest."
Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790) Computers 1959 - Invention of the integrated circuit: inventor Robert Noyce-Intel
1971 - Invention of the Microprocessor: inventors Ted Hoff, Federico Faggin and Stan Mazor - Intel

"Imagination is everything. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand."
Albert Eistein (1879 - 1955) “Learning is evolution of knowledge over time”
Roger E. Bohn, University of California, San Diego “Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.” | "In today's economy, the most important resource is no longer labor, capital or land; it is knowledge"
Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005)
Henri Coandă (1886-1972) - inventator al motorului cu reacţie (efectul Coandă) inventator | român
Spiru Haret (1851-1912) - reformator al învăţământului românesc
Anghel Saligny) (854-1925) - întemeietorii ingineriei româneşti
Petrache Poenaru (1799-1875) - organizatorul învăţământului românesc, inventatorul stiloului

Knowledge Web (James Burke videos) - http://k-web.org