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Postgraduate Flexible
Learning Project The Centre for
Mined Land Rehabilitation in conjunction with the UQ Teaching and
Educational Development Institute (TEDI) and the UQ Sustainable
Minerals Institute's (SMI) Virtual Reality Research Group of the
School of Engineering, have developed a Virtual Reality Mine CD
in 2004/5. This new technology enables students to work on assignments
by exploring a virtual reality world on their computer.
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Virtual Reality Mine
CD-ROM
The CD was released to all CMLR enrolled
students in the second semester of 2005 together with all other
material. The following courses will be "VR Mine enabled"
(others are likely to follow in a later phase of the project).
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Please note that the software runs on
Windows XP only, i.e. not Vista or Mac. |
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MINE7054
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Cleaner Production in the Minerals Industry |
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LAWS7911 |
Mining Environmental Regulation |
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MINE7000 |
Mine Waste
Management & Landform Design |
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MINE7050 |
Water Management in the Minerals
Industry |
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MINE7051 |
Mining
Environmental Management Processes |
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MINE7052 |
Community Aspects of Mineral Resource Development |
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Holistic Approach to
Learning |
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The Virtual Reality (VR) Mine CD integrates all assignment data
such as spreadsheet tables, photos, figures and textual
descriptions, previously distributed over the printed course
learning material of different courses. It represents a
"programmatic" approach to teaching, i.e. it concentrates on the
program being studied as opposed to the courses the program
consists of. The data items become properties of virtual objects that enable
the students to use visual clues for their discovery. These
items can now reinforce each other in the larger context of an
application relevant to the program being studied.
The information can be explored at the student’s pace in any
order. Understanding is accelerated and retention of facts is
ensured – learning can be put into practice immediately.
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Project Sponsor
The project was supported by the
Postgraduate Flexible Learning Funding Scheme of the Deputy
Vice-Chancellor (Academic) and the
Sustainable
Minerals Institute in 2004. |
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