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World Maritime University Dissertations

2012

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Virtual Met Institution : Assessing The Potentials And Challenges Of Applying Multi-User Virtual Environment In Maritime Education And Training, Trong Hieu Pham Jan 2012

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World Maritime University Dissertations

The dissertation is a study to assess the potentials and challenges in the use of Multi-User Virtual Environment (MUVE) in Maritime Education and Training (MET) context. Virtual technology is growing at fast pace. The applications of MUVE are being utilized by numerous institutions across many educational professions. However, the area of utilizing MUVE in MET is still very limited. At the time being, it is indicated that there is possibility to take advantages of MUVE to create: (1) an enhance learning environment, (2) collaboration tools to support the distributed knowledge community, and (3) new modes of distance learning. METs are …