Emerging Technologies-Using Second Life as an Instructional Tool in a Computer Science Ethics Course
The virtual reality environment of Second Life has applications as a collaborative, interactive, team-based learning instructional tool and is being implemented within a computer science ethics course here at Towson. Second Life is being used to initiate feedback from students on ethical issues and situations by using this immersive, online virtual environment.
Professors Alfreda Dudley and James Braman will discuss their application of Second Life as an instructional tool for student collaboration. They will provide an overview of their instructional scenario and a case-based methodology that may be used by other faculty members in online, hybrid or face-to-face instruction.
Date: December 11, 2009
Time: noon – 1 p.m.
Location: CK 404B
For additional information contact La Tonya Dyer at 410-704-4723. To register, visit the OTS training Web site at {http://www.towson.edu/otstraining}.
