SimGlobal: Building a Serious Role-Playing Game for College
Summary:
SimGlobal fuses an RPG framework with tabletop crisis exercises to craft an immersive, experiential college global issues course. Learn how to adapt our methods to your own course objectives.
Description:
Learn how instructors at Harrisburg University of Science and Technology designed and delivered a course on contemporary global issues built on an RPG framework. Called Simulating Global Crises, the course unites a role-playing game approach with crisis-response tabletop exercises to craft a social science class far more immersive and experiential than a standard lecture-and-essay course. We'll talk about the design and teaching process and discuss how you might be able to adapt it to your classroom as well!
SimGlobal: Hands-on with a Serious Role-Playing Game for College
Summary:
Following the SimGlobal seminar, experience the social science fusion of an RPG framework with tabletop crisis exercises and learn how to adapt our methods to your own course objectives.
Description:
Experience SimGlobal, the serious educational game fusing a role-playing game approach with crisis-response tabletop exercises. In the preceding seminar we talked about the design and teaching process; now try it out and discuss how you might be able to adapt it to your classroom as well!