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There is now a CONTENT FREEZE for Mercury while we switch to a new platform. It began on Friday, March 10 at 6pm and will end on Wednesday, March 15 at noon. No new content can be created during this time, but all material in the system as of the beginning of the freeze will be migrated to the new platform, including users and groups. Functionally the new site is identical to the old one. webteam@gatech.edu
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J. Britt Holbrook, Visiting Assistant Professor in the School of Public Policy, is co-PI on two recent NSF Awards to develop games for use in ethics education in science and engineering: EAGER: Prototyping a Virtue Ethics Game, and Graduate Virtue Ethics Education in Science and Engineering. The goal is to develop an alternative, gaming approach that seeks to recast the ethics education of scientists and engineers as less a matter of memorizing rules through content delivery systems and more a matter of practicing virtuous behavior in life-like gaming environments. This is an experimental approach, and it may fail. However, the hope is at least to learn something important about ethics education, in particular about assessment of ethics education. Holbrook will give a brief description of the project and then discuss possible synergies with Georgia Tech. There are three areas that come to mind immediately: 1) assessment; 2) testing the games at Georgia Tech; and 3) moving forward, transferring these games (which currently are physical card games and board games) to digital formats for wider dissemination.
