Month: February 2013

Virtual Worlds for Immersive Learning

Alan Miller and Ishbel Duncan are running a special session at CSEDU 2013 (in May in Aachen) on using Virtual Worlds for learning. Levels of learning, applicable learning theories, student interaction, avatar interaction, learning contexts and evaluation are all open for discussion. The due date for papers is February 27 2013 and more information can Virtual Worlds for Immersive Learning

System Seminar: Understanding Ethical Concerns in Social Media Privacy Studies, by Luke Hutton, University of St Andrews

Abstract: Understanding privacy in social network sites (SNSs) is an area of intense interest in computer science and many other fields. The ethical considerations of such research are numerous and complicated. Our position is that understanding how to address such considerations will improve measurement, and therefore our understanding, of networked social privacy. In this talk System Seminar: Understanding Ethical Concerns in Social Media Privacy Studies, by Luke Hutton, University of St Andrews