Promoting the acquisition of skills through business games
According to the Swiss Austrian German Simulation and Gaming Association (SAGSAGA), simulation games offer practical learning experiences with realistic complexity as well as scope for decision-making and action to actively promote the acquisition of skills.
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This enables them to work on real problems and create practical, authentic situations. In the first part of the short online workshop, you will receive an overview of how simulation games can be integrated into your own teaching in a didactically meaningful way in order to promote the acquisition of skills, create a motivating learning environment, support the acquisition of knowledge, enable reflection and transfer and promote self-organized learning. Building on this, the second part presents current good practices of simulation games in university teaching.
Learning objectives
On completion of the short online workshop, participants will be able to
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Present the opportunities and challenges of using simulation games
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and name good practices on the topic of simulation games in university teaching.
Daniel Winkler is a lecturer in higher education pedagogy at the Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences. His areas of expertise include: the fundamentals of higher education pedagogy, engineering education, laboratory pedagogy, and the use of simulation games and educational technology in higher education. He studied at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (Bachelor of Engineering) and at the Zittau International University Institute of the Technical University of Dresden (Master of Arts). In his doctoral research at the Faculty of Educational Sciences at Dresden University of Technology, he is conducting in-depth research on the design of teaching and learning scenarios involving the use of augmented reality. Since 2020, he has been a member of the Society for Engineering Education and the Engineers Without Borders association.
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