Classes in Second Life

BITE-3228 Administrative Management

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BITE-4323/6428 Instructional Methods

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BITE4324

BITE4390

BITE4700

BITE4700/6700

BITE-5388 Virtual Environments

A class entirely on Virtual Environments, students experience the world of Second Life from edge to edge. Activities include scavenger hunts across the virtual world, in-class lectures, student presentations, and more. Students also have the oppertunity to build their own objects, and decorate their student spaces.

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BITE-5389 Web 2.0 Learning Environments & Virtual Teams

Students investigate the role of Web 2.0 technologies in formal or informal learning environments, while considering the potential learning impact of open and free courseware transforming education. This course is taught in Second Life, with a variety of interactive, teacher-led and learner-led activities across virtual worlds.

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BUSI 2201

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ELEM4550

ENGR3500

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HMGT-1350

Students experience the world of Second Life for assignments such as reviewing the ECU SL hotel making student presentations, facilitating student interactions, and more.

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HMGT-1500

A class that utilizes the virtual hotel as a learning tool for entry level students. Students meet in Second Life in the hotel, and discuss hotel issues. Dr. Deale’s students met with her and each other on Second Life and presented their projects about hospitality and tourism in other cultures in the ECU virtual hotel.

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HGMT3832

HMGT-3990, 3991, 3992

An internship class, students experience Second Life as a venue for presentations, class interaction, and more.

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HMGT-4650

This class used Second Life to allow the students to make development decisions for a new hotel and illustrate those decisions in a presentation for level of service, room mix, amenities and facilities.   

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ICTN4020/4022

ICTN6810

IDSN-1181

This course is the creative application of the elements and principles of design concepts in developing environmentally safe and aesthetically pleasing interior spaces. The display of student products in Second Life is used as a means of facilitating peer-to-peer and professional evaluation, exchange of ideas, clarification of expectations and the development of marketing skills

Gallery

ITEC-3300
Project Mgmt.

Classes set to begin in Fall 2010, students from the face to face lectures will sit with their online class peers to collaborate and learn project management practices together.

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ITEC-6050

A summer course for 2010, students met in Second Life for a lecture on Biometric security, and then experienced biometrics in a virtual building. Protections included CAC cards, a fingerprint scanner, and a retina scanner.

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ITEC-6200

Comprehensive systems used to control projects to achieve technical, managerial, and economic objectives.  Successful project management can be defined as having achieved the project objectives within time and cost at the desired performance/technology level while utilizing the assigned resources effectively and efficiently.  This course covers the basic skills and knowledge required to manage projects in various IT settings. Emphasis is on management controls, computer applications, human factors, and productivity.

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ITEC-6875

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MKTG-3832

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NURS-6614

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SOCI-1010

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SOCI2010

SPAN2222

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Research Survey

For three days we hosted a survey for ECU's School of Business inside Second Life. Second Life users were able to visit ECU and participate in the survey. Nearly 500 people particpated in the survey before it was closed.

Lessons-In-Leadership

Students meet in the virtual world to discuss leadership theories, styles, and concepts through discussions and interactive activities. Topics explored include defining leadership., values & character development, ethics, and followership. By the end of the program, students will be able to explain their philosophy of leadership.

Nursing

The nursing program has been very active in Second Life. Recently they have extended their 50 year celebrations into Second Life. We are also working to build a patient simulations into Second Life so students can participate virtually.