(1325) GET A LIFE! A FUTURE WORK LIFE SIMULATION TOOL FOR UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

摘要

The paper aims to report and discuss the development process of a web-based open source futuressimulation tool as well as the uses and experiences of the simulation. The purpose of the simulation isto promote proactive attitudes and futures orientation as well as life and work skills among highereducation students.Get a Life 2.0 project [1] has produced a web based tool for students to reflect upon the future of worklife and career development. The objective of the tool is to yield safe yet exciting experience on thevarious possible futures of work. The main design and methodological focus is on simulating verycomplex phenomena such as the work and social life of an individual in a changing environment:global context of work. Different issues of the changing world of work have been included in variousscenario paths.Two focal points of the simulation development are 1) how to build user-friendly career planningproducts with futures orientation and create content for them and 2) how to use futures studies andsimulations as tools for reflective learning and self-assessment. The simulation is built upon a webbased open source and free game engine developed in the Get a Life 2.0 project. The game engine isdesigned as an user-friendly product with a ready-to-use game editor interface. With the game makingtool anyone can create various types of simulation of their own.