The International Simulation & Gaming Research Yearbook

by Saunders, Danny

• ISBN13: 9780749433970
• ISBN10: 0749433973
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

The eighth volume in the "Simulation and Gaming Research Yearbook" series brings together topical and authoritative contributions from international professionals involved in the use of games and simulations. There are examples drawn from a wide range of countries.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Benita Cox
Editors' Introduction: Simulations and games for transition and change in lifelong learning	1	(12)
Danny Saunders
Nina Smalley
SECTION 1: Design and development
Games and simulations -- media for the new millennium	13	(20)
Henry Ellington
Simulation design	33	(14)
Douglas C Stretch
Dramatic changes -- a new action model for role-play practice	47	(12)
Kate Collier
Simulated assessment -- its value and future within work-based qualifications	59	(9)
Malcolm Taylor
Activities to demonstrate the diffusion of innovations	68	(9)
Cecily Boas
Will Rifkin
Policy learning through simulation/gaming	77	(12)
Cisca Joldersma
SECTION 2: Interpersonal relations
A simulation of prejudice and discrimination	89	(9)
Marte Fallshore
Negative attitudes towards highly experiential role-playing	98	(6)
Paul Elsam
Understanding leadership for team development	104	(9)
Theodore H Rosen
Insights from teaching Japanese and Korean students using group work and case studies	113	(16)
Peter R J Trim
Yang-Im Lee
SECTION 3: Business and management
Key factors to bear in mind when writing a marketing case study	129	(13)
Peter R J Trim
Using a role-play business game -- the InterAttica Hotel, Ascan	142	(10)
Bob Lillis
Management accounting for the millennium and beyond	152	(16)
H M Coombs
D Hobbs
D E Jenkins
Business game application in different educational institutions	168	(8)
Eugenijus Bagdonas
Irena Patasiene
Vytautas Skvernys
The role of benchmarked pre-computed National Catering Business Games (NCBG) in encouraging effective business decisions and lifelong learning	176	(13)
H A Forsyth
SECTION 4: Technology and computing
Group model building to improve business workflow	189	(8)
Jeremy Garnett
Optimal experience -- a framework for understanding the phenomenology of computer use	197	(9)
Jo Bryce
Donna Higgins
Distributed strategic interaction through `Downfall'	206
M A G B Lewis
R H Davis
SECTION 5: Practitioners' notes
The Animal Game	225
Claude Bourles
Transition and change -- the evolution of the great International Management Game Competition 1995-1999	230
Elizabeth Christopher
Susdale	237
Dick Glover
Mathematical modelling of social processes	243
Alexander A Laptev
SECTION 6: Yearbook information
Update -- references to recent articles	251
Mike McDonagh
Useful sources and addresses	257
Nina Smalley