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11 - Virtually Teaching Ethics

Experiencing the Discrepancy between Abstract Ethical Stands and Actual Behaviour Using Immersive Virtual Reality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2019

By
Sylvie Delacroix  and
Catrina Denvir
Edited by
Catrina Denvir
Catrina Denvir
Affiliation:
Monash University, Victoria
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Summary

The CAVE experience is an immersive virtual reality (IVR) environment employing high-resolution, 3D video and audio technology. Using the CAVE, researchers at University College London designed an IVR scenario intended to echo the logical structure of a traditional ‘trolley scenario’ problem, and deployed this activity within an undergraduate Law and Ethics Course. In this chapter we explore how the use of virtual reality can offer students an unparalleled opportunity to reflect on the dissonance between the behaviour they adopt when faced with an ethical dilemma, and the theoretical stance they propose during class discussion. We explore how this personalisation gives rise to sustained student engagement borne out of a desire to understand the discrepancy between principle and practice. Our chapter considers the potential of IVR technology when teaching ethics to future and current professionals. We conclude by considering how such technology can offer more dynamic opportunities for student reflection and how IVR might be sensibly integrated into a broader legal ethics curriculum.

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legal educationlegal simulationvirtual realitylegal ethicsethics traininglaw studentsstudent egnagementlegal professionlaw and ethicsexperiential education
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Modernising Legal Education , pp. 204 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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