Simulating Future Histories The NAU Solar System Simulation and Mars Settlement

Author(s): Reed D. Riner and Jennifer A. Clodius

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Virtual Classroom Simulations Futures Education Mars

Apr, 1995

Abstract: The authors and their colleagues are engaged in the fifth iteration of a classroom-based socio-cultural simulation activity called "The NAU Solar System". Teams of students in classrooms on seven campuses are role-playing the development and interaction of human communities in a future Solar System; the NAU team will, once again, establish the first permanent human settlement on Mars. Interaction among the teams is facilitated through the Internet by e-mail and an on-line Multiple User Domain (MUD) program, a text-based virtual reality, which mediates student participation. Each team is evaluated in reference to the local faculty member's pedagogical objectives.

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