Participants: Darshan Bhatt, Tom Moher

Room 2068 (EVL) Engineering Research Facility/UIC

Darshan Bhatt defends his master’s thesis Thursday, August 28, at 11am in the EVL presentation space Room 2068.

WallCology: Design of a Simulation Engine for Learners’ Embodied Inquiry in Population Ecology
WallCology is a population ecology simulation built on the Embedded Phenomena framework. The primary motivation for the creation of WallCology is to bring an engaging and authentic means of studying ecology in the classroom with technologies that are readily available in most classrooms. WallCology, currently in its third iteration and has been studied in three different classrooms. Student and teacher feedback from these studies have helped to continuously modify and expand the simulation.

Advisor: Tom Moher

Email: laura@evl.uic.ed

Date: August 28, 2008

Document: WallCology: Design of a Simulation Engine (PDF)

Related Entries

Directory:

• Darshan Bhatt
• Tom Moher

Events:

• Wallcology: Technology based learning and scientific inquiry

Papers:

• WallCology: Design of a Simulation Engine for Learners’ Embodied Inquiry in Population Ecology
• WallCology: Designing Interaction Affordances for Learner Engagement in Authentic Science Inquiry
• WallCology: Studying Ecology using a Distributed, Persistent Virtual Ecosystem in the Classroom
• WallCology: A Learner’s Interface to a Persistent Virtual Ecosystem

Research:

• WallCology: Ecology Embedded Phenomenon
• Embedded Phenomena

Related Categories

• Applications
• Education
• MS / PhD Thesis
• Multimedia
• Software
• VR