Sarah Kettell, programmer/analyst with the Center for Teaching Excellence at Penn State Harrisburg, helps students in a criminal justice class learn to use virtual reality headsets.
Two criminal justice classes at Penn State Harrisburg recently used virtual reality headsets, which are available through the Center for Teaching Excellence. Students watched a VR video set inside a prison, then discussed the experience and how it connected to what they have been learning in class.
Two criminal justice classes at Penn State Harrisburg recently used virtual reality headsets to help them experience what it might be like inside a prison. Using virtual reality gives the students a more immersive experience and exposes them to technology they might encounter outside of the classroom.
Students in a criminal justice class use virtual reality headsets to watch a video that takes them inside a prison. Some students said they found the experience to be immersive and offer a different perspective than a typical video.
They didn’t leave their seats in the Olmsted Building classroom, but Penn State Harrisburg students taking a criminal justice course on the court system recently spent 12 minutes inside a Texas jail — or at least it felt that way.
Shirley Clark, acting director of Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, has taken on the role of president of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute, part of the American Society of Civil Engineers, effective Oct. 1.
Shirley Clark, acting director of Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, has taken on the role of president of the Environmental and Water Resources Institute, part of the American Society of Civil Engineers, effective Oct. 1.
Job openings for positions like information security analysts are projected to grow more than 30% faster than average over the next decade, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor and Statistics. Penn State World Campus offers a comprehensive selection of graduate degree programs in homeland security that have been designed to help professionals meet the demand to serve and protect others.
Emma Leonard Boyle, associate professor of political science at Penn State Harrisburg, has been named chair of the graduate portfolio in homeland security that is exclusively offered online through Penn State World Campus.
