Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier

Hello folks

I am Wendy Kraglund-Gauthier. I am the Instructional Designer for St. Francis Xavier University's online/distance courses. I am also a doctoral student with the University of South Australia; my research involves the pedagogical shifts from face-to-face teaching to virtual teaching.

I enrolled in this course because I am interested in program evaluation and data management. I also wish to explore the ethical issues of data mining and privacy in online classrooms.I don't have a background in statistics, but I am interested in applying theoretical understandings derived from numbers into effective educational decision-making.

I look forward to this course!

Wendy

Thanks for this, Janet

Wendy

I've been using Elluminate Publish to create an MP4 file for data transcription of my focus group interviews. Then I realized that I still needed to focus on the recording because of the back channel conversations happening in the chat and the participant's use of emoticons to indicate agreement /disagreement (I am equating them to the nods of body language). Still, it does save time!

Wendy

Here's a timely publication:

Charles Wankel and Shaun Malleck, Emerging Ethical Issues of Life in Virtual
Worlds (Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, 2010).

Virtual Worlds are increasingly used in business and education.  With each
day more people are venturing into computer-generated online persistent
worlds such as Second Life for increasingly diverse reasons such as
commerce, education, research, and entertainment.  This book explores the
emerging ethical issues associated with these novel environments for human
interaction and cutting-edge approaches to the attendant new ethical
problems.  This volume puts forth a wide range of virtual world ethical
issues on which research is only commencing.  Topics include real-world
ethical and legal issues of doings in virtual worlds, norms of research
ethics in virtual worlds, ethical implications of employing virtual worlds
as tools for medical education and experimenting with healthcare services,
the ethics of the collective action of virtual world communities,
consideration of the virtue and potential of cosmopolitanism in virtual
worlds, Deleuzian ethical approaches to the experience of the disabled in
virtual worlds, the ethics of virtual world design, and the ethical
implications of the "illusion of reality" presented by virtual worlds.


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I'm STILL waiting for my book as well. Ordered it weeks ago.

Wendy