| Millennium Village Simulation | |
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Partner:
Jeffrey Sachs-
The Earth Institute, SIPA The Millennium Village Simulation is a Web-based simulation of economics and survival for one family and their village in a sub-Saharan African village. In a virtual world of extreme poverty, disease, and environmental variability, students are challenged to help a family of two survive and prosper over a fifty-year period.... |
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Open to all Released: March 2008 | |
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| Brownfield Action 3.0 | |
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Partner:
Peter Bower-
Barnard College Brownfield Action is a central component of Professor Peter Bower's Introduction to Environmental Science Course at Barnard College. In this simulation, students are presented with maps, documents, videos, and an extensive network of scientific data to investigate the site of a suspected contaminated land site. They assume the roles of environmental consulting firms contracting with a real estate developer to study the condition of the site and report on the feasibility of commercial construction. |
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Private Released: August 2007 | |
| ReliefSim | |
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Partner:
Ronald Waldman-
School of Public Health ReliefSim is a prototype of a simulation of a humanitarian emergency scenario. Students play the role of the health relief director and have a team of people they assign to assess the situation and attempt to manage the health concerns of the crisis. This simulation prototype was designed to train... |
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Private Revised: November 2006 Released: November 2002 | |
| Heart Simulator | |
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Partner:
Daniel Burkhoff, Marc Dickstein-
College of Physicians & Surgeons Modeling the pressure-volume relationship, the Heart Simulator contains parameters that students manipulate to simulate conditions and pathologies useful for teaching and learning the function of the heart. It provides a continuous graphic output of the relationship between pressure and volume in the heart under varying conditions. Project revised Fall 2003.... |
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Open to all Released: October 2003 | |
| OPTIMUS - Earth Science Engineering Grant | |
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Partner:
Upmanu Lall-
School of Engineering and Applied Science The Open Platform for Teaching Integrated Modeling and Urban Simulation (OPTIMUS) project was a prototype of a spatial modeling application that allowed engineering students to design and manipulate models of environmental engineering problems such as the relationship between automobile traffic congestion and pollution. The prototype was a central feature of... |
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Columbia only Released: September 2003 | |
| News Reporting Simulation | |
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Partner:
John Pavlik, Sig Gissler-
School of Journalism Using the News Reporting Simulation (NewsSim), journalism students assume the roles of reporters covering a fire story in a fictitious small city. Students practice their newsgathering skills, interviewing techniques, and writing in a controlled digital environment that approximates some of the conditions found in the real world.... |
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Private Released: September 2001 | |
| Brownfield Action | |
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Partner:
Peter Bower-
Barnard College The Brownfield Action simulation engages students in an environmental investigation of a suspected contaminated land site. An adaptation of a paper-based version of the study the professor had used for several years, the project is ideally suited for a digital environment in which students seamlessly gather, store and manipulate data.... |
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Open to all Released: September 2001 | |
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