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E-learning is currently proliferating at a rapid rate and the impact of this proliferation on teaching and learning raises many questions with no clear answers. For example what impact if any do the new e-learning technologies have on the role of...

Do role-play simulations help students with learning? This paper discusses the experience of 'playing a role' in a web-based role-play simulation in light of evaluations of students who participated as teams in two role-play simulations designed for ...

Current E-learning models have been criticised by constructivists for providing content without a learning social context and have argued that such learning contexts need to be designed into E-learning programs. This paper takes issue with this...

The paper is an exploration of the ‘magic’ inherent in role-play simulations in educational contexts. It compares and analyses a range of on-line role-play simulations used in higher education in a variety of disciplines highlighting the structural...

The Symposium aims at bringing together higher-education teachers who have designed and run role-play simulation games in their courses to compare their design frameworks as they applied to the particular learning objectives of their courses. While...

As the arsenal instructional technology strategies increasingly grows to include computer games, simulations and on-line role-plays there is an increased need to understand the practical and theoretical issues involved in the use of such...

The paper presents an analysis and critique of the literature on online role play simulation games for education presented over the last 20 years at the various AACE conferences and journals as found in the EdItLib Digital Library. The analysis...

The paper examines the way constructivists present the roles of teacher and students and argues that it idealizes both their roles and the nature of their relationship. It takes role-play simulation games, one of constructivists' favorite...

This paper reports on a pilot role-play simulation game at the University of Canberra in Australia. The simulation "Pakistan: Democracy, Development and Human Rights" is intended to give students a choice between work experience placement and...

Role based e-learning is becoming popular as part of the pedagogical arsenal of the constructivist paradigm that puts emphasis on learning by doing in collaborative environments that include simulations, games and role plays. This paper examines and ...