Category Archives: and Simulations

Helping others with using simulations

Posted on May 21, 2013 by

Of late, I’ve been working with the Higher Education Academy once more, developing more resources for their excellent New to Teaching Toolkit site. This is intended to help those with less experience develop their own practice in a supported way. … Continue reading →

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World Peace Game

Posted on May 10, 2013 by

I just saw an amazing documentary about a simulation used in a fourth grade classroom: World Peace Game. The creator, John Hunter, has been continuously using and improving this simulation for thirty-five years, and his account of his experiences has … Continue reading →

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Learned helplessness all round

Posted on April 30, 2013 by

Following on curiouscat’s response to my post, I’ve been rather taken with the idea of learned helplessness. This past week I’ve been tied up with validating our new degree programmes: we had our final meetings with the panel and got … Continue reading →

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Poverty Games Pt. 4: Spent

Spent is a fantastic interactive simulation for teaching about poverty in the US.  The premise of the game is that you are a recently unemployed and homeless single parent, down to your last $1000.  You have to find an apartment … Continue reading →

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Are simulations discipline-specific?

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

As the result of a couple of writing projects I’m currently undertaking, the question of how discipline-specific simulations are has come into much sharper focus. Indeed, until a few weeks ago the question would have appeared to me to have had … Continue reading →

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Simulations for students, or students for simulations?

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

One of the big topics of debate in the Simulations I track at APSA’s TLC in Long Beach  was about making simulations work for students. For many of the people around the room, this meant fitting the students into the most … Continue reading →

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Teaching and Learning, Gangnam-Style

Posted on February 10, 2013 by

You would think since all of are here together, and four of us in the same room, that at some point we would have discussed a live blogging schedule–or even that we intended to live blog.  I guess we are … Continue reading →

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Putting your money where your mouth is

Posted on February 5, 2013 by

One of the more useful realisations in my professional life has been that my practice often advances best when I put myself in a somewhat awkward position. Thus, by committing to a conference paper, for instance, I lock myself into … Continue reading →

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World Without Oil: An Alternate Reality Game

Posted on January 21, 2013 by

A great resource for anyone teaching courses in environmental or energy politics, World Without Oil is an alternate reality game that took place in 2007, where participants imagined how their lives would change as a result of a steep increase … Continue reading →

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A New Year, Same Old Problems

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

While the discussions among the ALPS group continue on the weighty subject of whether to wear tracksuits for our short course at APSA L&T in Long Beach, I have also been talking recently with the UK’s Higher Education Academy on … Continue reading →

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