T6 – Using, Moderating and Creating Web-based Role Play Simulations in Educational and Organizational Environments
Albert
Ip, Managing Director, Digital Learning Systems, Australia
Instructor e-mail: albert@DLS.au.com
Role Play Simulations have been used as a tool
for teaching and training in many areas and disciplines. The idea behind using
simulations as pedagogical tools relies on the idea that experience is the best
motivator. The simulations described in this workshop are NOT rule-based (or
model-based) simulations of physical systems. Role-play simulations are for
modeling human interactions, such as those encountered in social sciences or
management studies and based on the abstraction that human interactions are
communicative events. The technique described in this tutorial has been used
successfully in the past three years in many university and professional
development courses. See http://www.roleplaysim.org/papers/.
The role play simulation design is incorporated
into a role play simulation generator Fablusi™. Participants will be given
opportunity to use of this software for a limited time (valued at approximately
US$500 depending on number of roles in the simulation).
At the end of the tutorial, participants should
understand the pedagogical
underpinning of role play simulation for creating an engaging an joyful
learning experience for learners and trainees,
have experience as a
learner/trainee in a role play simulation,
understand the role of
moderators in online role play simulations, and
Intended
Audience/Level:
No technical expertise other than experience in
Web surfing is required.