The impact of a simulation game on operations management education

Pasin, Fédérico; Giroux, Hélène

doi:10.1016/j.compedu.2010.12.006

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“…Our approach, in line with Pasin and Giroux, highlights the need to develop specific educational objectives and different assessment levels of the learners [Pasin and Giroux, 2010]. It is finally noted that the learning speed may be higher during the first two modes [Tena-Chollet, 2012].…”

Section: How To Improve the Teaching Strategy?mentioning

confidence: 86%

Training decision-makers: Existing strategies for natural and technological crisis management and specifications of an improved simulation-based tool

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Serious games and environmental computer-based simulations can be useful training tools for people who have to act in emergencies. Currently, stakeholders who deal with crises have to make decisions under stress, for example in order to mitigate consequences or avoid negative impacts on high-stake elements.Many factors are critical in a training environment for ensuring that effective learning occurs, principally: experience improvement, engagement and immersion, and realism. This paper aims to identify the limits of existing learning systems for emergency stakeholders within a crisis cell and then to propose a set of recommendations in order to specify a system to improve the effectiveness of peoples' actions in case of a major crisis.The development of this approach requires the pooling of information concerning varied and multidisciplinary skills. The paper first focuses on the classical difficulties of crisis management, after which the notion of experience in decision-making is defined. The issue is studied from three points of view: the educational approach, the simulation system, and the training environment.The last section of this paper contributes to establishing a set of enhancements which can lead to the specification of simulation based learning systems for further development. More particularly, we specify the needed characteristics of our learning approach and teaching strategy. Finally, we propose a model with the main steps that have to be implemented in order to design a new learning system: a semi-virtual training environment for strategic crisis management.

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Section: How To Improve the Teaching Strategy?mentioning

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“…It should be emphasized that the learning styles of young "virtual" generations vary from the previous ones, as they are far more oriented towards the visually presented information, interaction and problem solving (Pasin & Giroux, 2011;Proserpio & Gioia, 2007).…”

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A Literature Review of Empirical Research on the Effects of Digital Games on Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences / Pregled literature o empirijskim istraživanjima o utjecaju digitalnih igara na stilove učenja i višestruke inteligencije

Aleksić

Ivanović

2017

Croatian Journal of Education

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“…However in capstone business simulations where the simulated overall business strategy incorporates a combination of these domain-specific policies, a transparent mapping between strategies and operations is commonly missing. Pasin and Giroux (2011) note that in many business games the facilitators must be well-informed to interpret the behavioral rules in order to provide appropriate feedback to individual player teams.…”

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“…Pasin and Giroux (2011) thus started to measure learning not by evaluating simulation performance but rather analyzed each of the students' decisions to identify specific strategically 'wrong' decisions or 'mistakes' that their logistics management simulation game was intended to reduce. Measuring learning by tracking the number of strategic mistakes is new in management simulation games (Pasin and Giroux 2011) and requires transparency of these inconsistencies. There is therefore a clear need for support of transparently measuring strategic reasoning in business simulation platforms.…”

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“…Business simulations and games today educate management students in a variety of business strategies and tactics covering areas such as sales, finances and marketing. Typical advantages of simulation apply here, including relatively low cost training environments, no danger to participants, and avoiding ethical issues when things go wrong (Geurts et al 2007, Pasin andGiroux 2011). Educators apply simulation games as a constructivist learning approach for their experiential or problem-based learning pedagogy (Lainema 2009, Thavikulwat andPillutla 2010).…”

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Transparency, consistency and modularity of strategic reasoning: An agent architecture for interactive business simulations

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Warnier

Brazier

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 2011 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC)

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Interactive business simulations are widely used to explore and compare business strategies from both practice and theory. In many business simulations however, educators and researchers lack support in observing how the simulated actors operationalize their strategies, in validating whether operations have been aligned with the strategy, and also in (re)configuring available player and opponent strategies based on new theoretical or practical insights. This paper specifies requirements for a novel business simulation architecture that facilitates transparency, consistency and modularity of strategic decision making by simulated actors in interactive business simulations. A system architecture is proposed that integrates three components: an extensible agent middleware, a distributed simulation engine and a modular reasoning framework. How the architecture fulfills the three requirements of strategic reasoning transparency, consistency and modularity is illustrated in a use case of a business simulation game for supply chain management education.

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The impact of a simulation game on operations management education

Cited by 205 publications

References 75 publications

Training decision-makers: Existing strategies for natural and technological crisis management and specifications of an improved simulation-based tool

Training decision-makers: Existing strategies for natural and technological crisis management and specifications of an improved simulation-based tool

A Literature Review of Empirical Research on the Effects of Digital Games on Learning Styles and Multiple Intelligences / Pregled literature o empirijskim istraživanjima o utjecaju digitalnih igara na stilove učenja i višestruke inteligencije

Transparency, consistency and modularity of strategic reasoning: An agent architecture for interactive business simulations

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