Homeland security and virtual reality: building a Strategic Adaptive Response System (STARS).

The advent of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT) underscored the need to improve the U.S. disaster response paradigm.

The virtual terrorism response academy: training for high-risk, low-frequency threats.

The Virtual Terrorism Response Academy is a reusable virtual learning environment to prepare emergency responders to deal with high-risk, low-frequency events in general, terrorist attacks in particular. The principal learning strategy is a traditional one: apprenticeship. Trainees enter the Academy and travel through its halls, selecting different learning experiences under the guidance of instructors who are simultaneously master practitioners and master trainers.

Patients' need for information about cancer therapy.

Purpose/objectives: To obtain detailed information about the preferences of patients with cancer and their need for information about side effects of cancer treatment to design an interactive multimedia educational program.

Design: Qualitative.

Setting: Regional rural academic medical center.