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Fowler, Sandra M.; Pusch, Margaret D. – Simulation & Gaming, 2010
Intercultural simulations are instructional activities that engage and challenge participants with experiences integral to encounters between people of more than one cultural group. Simulations designed specifically to support intercultural encounters have been in use since the 1970s. This article examines the conceptual bases for intercultural…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Simulation, Cultural Pluralism, Intercultural Communication
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Hofstede, Gert Jan; Murff, Elizabeth J. Tipton – Simulation & Gaming, 2012
The game SO LONG SUCKER was designed in the United States in 1964 with the aim of showing how potentially unethical behavior necessary for winning was inherent in the game's incentive structure. Sessions with East Asian participants, however, led to very different game dynamics in which collaborative rather than antagonistic behaviors occurred.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Games, Ethical Instruction, Asians
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Rapoport, Anatol – Simulation & Gaming, 1995
Traces the roots of social trap situations and describes a parasitism-symbiosis model, showing that when each organism attempts to maximize its survival potential without regard for the other's, neither does as well as when they behave collectively. Discusses a model social trap situation, "Prisoner's Dilemma" ("PD") and a…
Descriptors: Behavior Theories, Cooperation, Evolution, Games
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Leigh, Elyssebeth; Spindler, Laraine – Simulation & Gaming, 2004
Effective facilitation of experiential learning involves an array of knowledge and skills. Educators who facilitate open simulations--one form of experiential learning--benefit from having relevant theoretical frameworks to sustain an appropriate balance between being directive and supportive of their participants' freedom to learn. This ongoing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, Experiential Learning, Education Courses
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Summers, Gary J. – Simulation & Gaming, 2004
New technologies are transforming the business simulation industry. The technologies come from research in computational fields of science, and they endow simulations with new capabilities and qualities. These capabilities and qualities include computerized behavioral simulations, online feedback and coaching, advanced interfaces, learning on…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Industry, Coaching (Performance), Business Administration Education