Albert Ip, Managing Director, Digital Learning Systems P/L[HREF 1], P.O.Box 87, North Balwyn VIC 3104 Australia. albert@DLS.au.com
Roni Linser, Managing Director, Ausis P/L, Australia[HREF 2], roni@ausis.com.au
Marie Jasinski, Australia mariejas@bigpond.com
role play; simulation; moderator; web-based; Fablusi
Moderating role play simulation is itself a wondrous experience, an wild and exciting tour through an amazing array of ingenuity and imaginative strategies developed by participants to reach their goals. In the process MODs not only serve and guard the pedagogical objectives, as a resource related to their teaching roles, but are themselves challenged, requiring them to respond in imaginative ways in an indescribable simulated world. If the structure of RPS provides an empty space for participant to try out their suspicions, biases, hopes and fears, if it helps to test the extent to which they can apply their incomplete knowledge and understanding and in the process discover new realities both about themselves and the world, the role of the moderator is to intervene between the 'emptiness' which is there and the pedagogical objectives that are not there.
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