ERIC Number: EJ808072
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 24
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ISSN: ISSN-1065-0741
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Negotiate Your Future: Web-Based Role Play
Ahamer, Gilbert
Campus-Wide Information Systems, v21 n1 p35-58 2004
An original concept for a Web-based role play "SurfingGlobalChange" is proposed on the basis of multi-year interdisciplinary teaching experience and constructivist pedagogy. Underlying didactic orientation is towards self-guided learning, acquiring socially compatible "competence to act" in a globalised world, self-optimising social procedures inside teams, process-orientation and peer-review instead of teacher's review. Participating students find themselves in an argumentative battle where they put their marks at stake. A comparison with similar games highlights the increased level of responsibility attributed to and expected from learners using this kind of "digital game-based learning". (Contains 8 tables, 7 figures and 53 notes.)
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Higher Education, Role Playing, Teaching Experience, Internet, Teaching Methods, Web Based Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Interdisciplinary Approach, Educational Games, Simulation
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Language: English
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