Find out why fiction can be better than fact when designing for online role play? Ruritania is a fictional country in central Europe which forms the setting for three books by Anthony Hope including: The Prisoner of Zenda”. Take a journey through the history of role play for learning in business education, with Clive Holtham, his entertaining and informative talk opened the role play event at City in November 2014. It covers a wide range of examples of role play for Clive’s own practice and others who inspired him, including one involving the Bank of Ruritania and concludes with insights to the design process used for the Millcaster Tales simulation – here soap opera tactics helped keep the story moving. Clive makes a strong case, backed up with a wide range of examples for the use of simulation to enrich learning in professional education.
Points of interest
All 22 minutes of Clive’s talk is fascinating, but if you are short of time – or just want to find your way to Ruritania, I have picked out a few points of interest for you to hop straight to.
- Scene 1 How real does it need to be in real life and virtual simulations?
- Scene 8 Nothing new here? Simulation has been around from 1650 to 1949
- Scene9 Start here for a dozen or more great examples of simulations for Business education
- Scene 12 The Bank of Ruritania and other examples
- Scene 17 Millcaster Tales – What can we learn from soap operas?
- Scene17 What can Moodle offer to online role play?
Watch here – Role Play in Professional Learning, Clive Holtham, City 2014
This recording was made using City’s lecture capture system, here you can watch and listen to Clive and you can move around the session using the controls bottom left – or – via the slides. The recording will open in a new window.
The direct link to the recording is https://echo360.city.ac.uk/ess/echo/presentation/a0b320aa-7f3e-4687-be48-b5b669c064f2
This recording is part of a series made at the event in November 2014, you can find the whole series and more here: Role Play at City
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