Session Details
Special Session 1304
| Teaching Track | Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 |
| Time: 14:00-15:15 h | |
| Presentation | Room: Seabreeze |
Strategy Simulations: A Second Life Using Second Life?
Session Presenter
- Tony O’Dristoll, North Carolina State University
Abstract
Don’t have an avatar yet? Don’t understand what your colleagues are talking about when they mention “virtual worlds”? This session will offer attendees an opportunity to learn about multi-user virtual environments (MUVEs) and discuss whether these new 3D online digital worlds have a role to play in the next generation of strategy education. Tony O’Dristoll, the Lead Learning Strategist with IBM’s Center for Advanced Learning and a Professor at North Carolina State University, is responsible for advancing IBM’s thought leadership in formal and informal learning. His research is focused on theory and methodology development and applying this learning in corporate and education settings. A renowned expert on the topic of learning in virtual environments, Tony has advised business leaders around the world on techniques for leveraging technology in order to create a sustainable competitive advantage. Tony will conduct a virtual session via “Second Life,” an example of a 3D online digital world. As part of the session, he will discuss his concept of “the seven sensibilities” of virtual worlds, and he will share his thoughts on how they could be a key pedagogical tool in teaching. This session will end with a discussion by participants of how MUVEs could be employed in their own strategic management classrooms.