It also announced the creation of an India-Africa virtual university and promised more than 22, 000 scholarships to African students.
The Virtual University of Uganda, a project we started in 2011, has proved, after one year of operation, to be hugely successful.
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Coke's goal is to reach 100, 000 retailers in the next 18 months, says Ramesh Datta, a former B-school dean who was hired in 2007 to oversee its virtual university.
The discussion and debate will be analysed and summarized in a report that will be made available to all the participants as documentation on the policy issues and concerns that need to be addressed for virtual university initiatives and transnational education to succeed.
For example, the recently opened Tokyo Cyber Clinic is developing, with help from Waseda University, a virtual Tokyo subway (overcrowded for realism) to treat people who panic when surrounded or touched by others.
Michitaka Hirose, a professor specializing in virtual-reality technology at Tokyo University, traces Japan's thriving artificial entertainment industry to the art of bonsai, in which medieval nobility honed the reshaping of nature into an art form.
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Researchers at the University of Manchester are turning to virtual reality once again, not to have another go 'round at proving whether telepathy is real or not, but to help individuals with amputated limbs recover from so-called "phantom limb pain, " a sensation wherein amputees appear to feel pain in their lost limb.
Because Zoe is a virtual talking head created in a collaboration between Cambridge University's Engineering Department and the Toshiba Research Laboratory.
Originally created for the U.S. Department of Defense at the University of Iowa as part of the Virtual Soldier Research (VSR) program to help reduce physical strain on soldiers, Santos has been heralded by ergonomists as a breakthrough in digital modeling.
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Similarly, an Israeli team at the University of Haifa recently built a disturbingly realistic virtual world of suicide bus-bombings to treat attack survivors.
Prize is awarded to the North Catholic University Foundation in Antioquia, Colombia for its Virtual Assisted Literacy Programme, which uses e-learning to improve technology skills and employment opportunities in marginalized communities.
The Platform was developed with a Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) framework by the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa within the Africa Virtual Open Initiatives and Resources (AVOIR) Consortium comprising of 11 African universities.
In another law review article, Leandra Lederman, a professor at the Indiana University School of Law in Bloomington, argues that different virtual games should in fact be treated differently.
Using the university's technology, a property developer can show clients inside a virtual version of his new flats.
Her lectures at New York University, where she was a professor in the classics department, were virtual one-woman shows as she sought to convey to her students her enthusiasm for Greece.
Contestants, who must be business-school students or university students in their final two years, work in teams of three to create virtual cosmetic companies.
Called AVATAR (Automated Virtual Agent for Truth Assessments in Real-Time) and developed by the US government and the University of Arizona, an official figure (a man nicknamed Elvis) projected onto a screen conducts the interviews and can detect small changes in movement and behaviour to see if a traveller is telling the truth.
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