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The Introduction Of Virtual Reality To Education: Should The Marketing Discipline Engage?, Enda Mcgovern
The Introduction Of Virtual Reality To Education: Should The Marketing Discipline Engage?, Enda Mcgovern
WCBT Faculty Publications
This position paper explores whether faculty should embrace the use of virtual reality as a medium of academic engagement with the future intake of digital native students. In recent years there has been a tremendous surge in the use of digital device platforms to extend the reach of education to the wider student populations. As a result, the positive engagement by students of multimedia objects, including video, sound clips and data in a more integrated, multi-sensory digital medium has gained significant traction in the learning environment. Students are moving faster into this digital space and it is not long before …
What Does Playing Games Teach Us About A Student's Ethical Life?, Robert Mccloud, Tamara Luarasi
What Does Playing Games Teach Us About A Student's Ethical Life?, Robert Mccloud, Tamara Luarasi
WCBT Faculty Publications
Most of our students play video games. A substantial percentage of our students is required to take a computer ethics course before graduation. Both ACM and ABET require some form of computer ethics. This paper addresses gaming ethics as a subset of the computer ethics course. Specifically it considers the case of Grand Theft Auto (GTA), one of the most successful and most criticized game franchises. Through interviews with computer science students the study looks at mainstream reaction to GTA and finds that computer science students, probably one of the more sophisticated groups of gamers, have sometimes surprising ethical views …