Franklin College |
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Project Description Virtual Franklin will constitute a primary component of the teaching and learning environment for a new course entitled, "Power, Discourse, and Identity in Computer-Mediated Environments." Virtual Franklin will provide a supplementary means of communication for course participants as well as a platform for observing and analyzing social interaction within a computer-mediated environment. Students will be expected to utilize the world for the completion of a variety of collaborative projects in addition to focusing on their interactions within the world as an object of study. | ||
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Leadership Program |
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Project Coordinator
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Project Description In the course "Leadership in a Multicultural Context", students study aspects of culture such as those defined by Geert Hofstede. These include individualism vs. collectivism, attitudes toward power, attitudes toward uncertainty, and a tough or tender orientation toward achievement. I plan to use a virtual world to allow students to build their own world illustrating these aspects of culture. They will do this in teams and the cultural aspects will be reflected not only in how they construct their world but also by the ways in which they interact in that world. I hope that the virtual world will engage them more fully and display their understanding better than classroom role plays. Beyond that, I expect that they will experience their immersion in the culture of an active world universe much as they would experience travel to a foreign land and I will ask them to reflect on this experience. | ||
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