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Simulated and virtual environments

Clinical Simulated Scenarios
The Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Science is working with external health care venues, to produce simulated scenarios to be used in the learning and teaching of clinical skills. These external health care venues include areas such as clinical emergency departments, intensive care units, surgical wards, emergency ambulances, rehabilitation facilities and community health care centres.

Contact : Mr Brett Williams, +61 3 990 44283

Teaching Lab of the Future

This laboratory, in the Faculty of Science, allows the teacher to take any student’s microscope or computer image and display it for the whole class or send it to one or more individuals. Students can work at their own pace while still being able to share and join in with the class activity. In teaching how to use the latest software, or using this software for statistical analysis or data presentation the teacher can control any or all of the student computers from anywhere in the laboratory. This novel system now allows us to teach the most up to date methods of image analysis and computing.

Contact: Professor Gordon Sanson, +61 3 990 55772

Treasury Dealing Room
The Treasury Dealing Room is a project of the Department of Accounting and Finance in the Faculty of Business and Economics. Units in money market operations (undergraduate) and money market dealing (postgraduate) have been designed around proprietary software developed as a research project with the Faculty of Information Technology. The software aims to teach trading to students in the faculty as well as developing graduate attributes in line with the Monash University Teaching and Learning Plan.

Refer also:
Monash Memo 22 August 2007
Presentation at Vice Chancellor's Showcase of Teaching Excellence 2007

Contact : Mr Kevin Tant, +61 3 990 32386

VLab - Monash University’s Complexity Virtual Lab
VLab logo VLAB is a web-based resource for research and education about complex systems. Its goals are to stimulate interest in complex systems and Alife and to provide demonstrations, both for key ideas and for recent research findings. VLAB provides many simulations (mostly java applets), together with related tutorials, references and web links. Demonstrations of complexity in the real-world include: forest ecology, fire spread, epidemics, starfish outbreaks, social consensus, influence of media on public opinion, spread of computer viruses and cascading power failures.

Contact: Professor David G. Green,+61 3 990 53912
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