NMC Campus Observer

Interview with UMUC on Simulations for Online Learning

CDB Barkley (aka Alan Levine) : Jul 20, 2007 05:30pm

At today’s Posters on the Green Session we took advantage of one group of presenters from University of Maryland University College (UMUC) who were ready with their audio equipped Second Life clients and recorded this audio interview with Julie Commons (RL Gilliam), Kathleen Maloney (RL Puckett), LaTonya Carter (RL Dyer), and Joanna Foden (RL Zhang).

Their poster is on “Using Simulations To Enhance Online Learning” and provides an overview of three different online simulations created at UMUC for online programs:

1. Networking and Information Security Hands-On Online Lab Exercises
2. Crime Scene Investigation
3. Homeland Security Simulation: City of San Luis Rey

Using audio chat to interview Jules and Kathleen

You can see an online version of the poster along with three audio narrated overviews of these projects at:
http://polaris.umuc.edu/de/csi/nmc/simulations.html

In our audio interview, Julie Commons (aka Jules Gilliam) and Kathleen Maloney (aka Kathleen Puckett) describe the simulations and some of the outcomes. You may also want to refer to the handout they provided in world.

UMUC Interview

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