Paper Info
Title
Us Students Carry Out Nuclear Safety Project In A Virtual Environment
Abstract
A project about nuclear safety was carried out through e-learning. It was a problem based learning (PBL) activity that took place in Second Life (SL), an online three-dimensional community. The virtual classroom was built on an island owned by Nagaoka University of Technology, Japan. Three students from a high school near Clarkson University participated in this project. A teacher gave them a short lesson about nuclear energy safety and then proposed the problem. The students understood the contents very well and solved the problem through voice chat interactions in SL. They engaged in active discussions and displayed high interest for the safe use of nuclear energy throughout this successful project. The results clearly indicate that this type of PBL class is possible for actual e-learning about nuclear safety and for engineering education. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.procs.2013.09.224
17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN KNOWLEDGE BASED AND INTELLIGENT INFORMATION AND ENGINEERING SYSTEMS - KES2013
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Problem Based Learning, Nuclear Safety, Second Life
Conference
22
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1877-0509
3
0.74
References 
Authors
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Dana M. Barry1133.39
Hideyuki Kanematsu2189.81
Yoshimi Fukumura33912.74
Toshiro Kobayashi473.63
Nobuyuki Ogawa52510.23
Hirotomo Nagai641.22