Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1110] Role Play Technology
From: Bonnycastle, Deirdre (BONNYCASTLE@siast.sk.ca)
Date: Tue 13 Feb 2001 - 22:36:06 MET
From: "Bonnycastle, Deirdre" <BONNYCASTLE@siast.sk.ca> Subject: [IFETS-DISCUSSION:1110] Role Play Technology Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2001 10:36:06 +1300
Albert mentioned the difficulty in creating role-plays if students couldn't
get together in private groups for real time simulation or discussion. Some
synchronous learning management systems have "breakout groups" where the
instructor can send students. The two systems we use allows the instructor
to pick who goes into which groups and for how long. The instructor can pop
into a group at any time or stay out.
At this stage I think we need to distinguish between:
1. Goal-Based Scenarios that allow an individual to take on the role of
someone else but don't require interaction with real people, and
2. Group Role Plays that allow a group of people to interact in the same
scenario.
Goal based scenarios are often very expensive to develop because of high
levels of interaction with multimedia. On the other hand, they are usually
inexpensive to deliver because they don't require close instructor
supervision and can be delivered on a CD-Rom.
Group role plays tend to be moderately to inexpensive to develop and
expensive to deliver because ideally they require instructor supervision and
on-line time. I used group role playing activities a lot when I was a
classroom instructor. It increased students' problem solving ability by
shaking up their traditional mind set. I am currently working on the design
stage of an on-line health profession course that will use role-plays but
this will be the first time we have used this technique on-line.
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What matters most is not the moment when the student uses the technology but
how that use promotes improvement in that student's education. - S. Ehrmann
Deirdre Bonnycastle
Course Designer
Virtual Campus
Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
(306) 933-5973
bonnycastle@siast.sk.ca
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