Game on

摘要

Learning by doing. Being immersed in a situation so you are able to experience it and learn from it. This is the backbone of serious gaming. Maritime by Holland Magazine takes a closer look at how the game is played. "People often comment that there is a gap between theory and real life situations", comments Rob van Leeuwen of Integraal Samenwerken (a Dutch term for integral cooperation), a type of joint industry project aimed at enhancing cooperation between companies within the shipbuilding industry and schools and looking for creative solutions. "This is also true for the way in which training is approached. The teacher will stand in front of his students, sharing the information he is required to share, which often leads to people feeling overwhelmed and forgetting more than half of what they have heard." Serious gaming puts the participant central in the training. What does he or she want to learn, which information or even better, which 'understanding' is necessary to achieve this and how can this be implemented? The eventual goal is to deliver a participant who actually has a high level of'situational awareness' and in the end, 'situational competences'.