Law School Car Crash Simulator
On a Monday evening, a class of Notre Dame Law students headed up to the fourth floor of Corbett Family Hall to witness a car crash. They saw one car turn right at an intersection while an oncoming car’s tires began to screech. The impact happened quickly, accompanied by the sounds of crunching metal and shattering glass. No one was hurt. It was just a simulation — an animated lesson made possible through a collaboration among the Law School, OIT’s Teaching & Learning Technologies team, and the Virtual Reality Lab in the Department of Psychology. The point was to show law students how eyewitness accounts can be shaped by factors such as where the viewer is standing and the ways that questions are worded.
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Academic Technology Specialist, Teaching and Learning Technologies
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