Engaging the Avatar: New Frontiers in Immersive Education (Research in Management Education and Development)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1617357510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 408 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-05 |
| Language | : | English |
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Columbia University's American Assembly identified him as one of the nation's top experts on Total Quality Management. . About the Author Charles Wankel is Professor of Management at St. John's University, New York.He holds a doctorate from New York University, where he was admitted to the Beta Gamma Sigma national honor society for business disciplines. He received the Outstanding Service in Management Education & Development Award at both the 2004 and 2005 meetings of the Academy of Management (AOM). Wankel is the leading founder
This volume has a bold agenda, in which academics create immersive worlds where the avatar is the center of the universe. What are the frameworks and strategies for building these environments? What are the things the avatar adapts and learns from in its environment? This book will examine such frameworks, strategies, examples and feedback systems to explore what it takes to create a global education environment for learning. Whether using the visual internet to learn or to interact with a customer about a product or service, this immersive interface can be a world that knows you and forms around your unique needs and interests.. This starts with engaging your avatar and is completed in a transformation in how you interact with the internet. As the virtual world grows, avatars move away from quasi-human interactions within virtual domiciles, gardens, and businesses to being blood cells in the blood stream, or to be firing neurons in the human brain, or creatures competing on the ocean floor or the surface of Mars or just about anything that can be imagined using the magic of photographic and artistic images,
John's University, New York.He holds a doctorate from New York University, where he was admitted to the Beta Gamma Sigma national honor society for business disciplines. He received the Outstanding Service in Management Education & Development Award at both the 2004 and 2005 meetings of the Academy of Management (AOM)
Worst Textbook I've ever had Nicole H This is by far the worst textbook I've ever been assigned in the decade I've been taking collegiate level courses. There are many errors in the book, the proof reading was very shoddy, they print examples of color perception using photographs (one is strong red/p