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Marc Levy-
Center for International Earth Science Information Network Ground|Work is an online simulation in which users grapple with maintaining the fragile peace in a post-conflict country (Nimpala). Over the course of seven weeks students in Professor Marc Levy's Environment, Conflict, and Resolution Strategy course use their knowledge of previous conflicts and conflict resolution strategies to complete both individual... |
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Private Released: October 2009 | |
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School of International and Public Affairs Country X is a web-based educational simulation created in response to challenges surrounding the training and education of prospective genocide prevention practitioners. The simulation, developed in partnership with Professor Aldo Civico of the Center for International Conflict Resolution, takes place in a fictitious nation experiencing rapid instability called Country X.... |
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Columbia only Released: April 2009 | |
| 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 | |
| Brownfield Action 3.0 | |
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Partner:
Peter Bower-
Barnard College The Brownfield Action simulation 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 Revised: August 2007 Released: September 2001 | |
| ReliefSim | |
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Partner:
Ronald Waldman-
School of Public Health ReliefSim is a simulation of a humanitarian emergency scenario. Students play the role of a 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. The educational goal concerns the challenges arising from prioritizing assessments... |
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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 By modeling the pressure-volume relationship, the Heart Simulator contains parameters that students manipulate to simulate conditions and pathologies. Changing these parameters is helpful for teaching and learning the functions of the heart. It provides a continuous graphic output of the relationship between pressure and volume in the heart under varying... |
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Open to all Released: October 2003 | |
| OPTIMUS - Earth Science Engineering Grant | |
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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 | |
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