Serious gaming approaches so far focus mainly on skill development, motivational aspects or providing immersive learning situations. Little work has been reported to foster awareness and decision competencies in complex decision situations involving incomplete information and multiple stakeholders. We address this issue exploring the technical requirements and possibilities to design games for ...

3 Outreach Document The UAF team feels that communication with stakeholders must be an early priority. We made the development of an outreach (legislative) document our first priority. This outreach document will stress the importance of an undergraduate research program by connecting the program purpose to educational outcomes and to the Alaska economy. In particular, the mission statement whi...

The DfEE in early 1998 commissioned the Institute for Employment Studies at the University of Sussex to undertake a review of educational research relating to schools in England (Hillage et al., 1998). This report, published in August 1998 was based upon a literature review of research activities, 40 interviews with ’stakeholders’ a mixture of researchers, people from research funding bodies, n...

Modeling and simulation stakeholders (government, industry, and educational institutions) firmly believe in the role and importance of educating and training (professional) simulationists. However, there does not exist a consensus on the what, how to, and why type questions pertaining to “disciplined” education and training. In this paper, we suggest a strategic approach for establishing modeli...

In November 1989, there was a meeting of people who had been involved in helping to bring about fundamental restructuring in public schools. This chapter reports on one person's view of the results of that "Asilomar Conference." It describes 15 acti\.ities that appear to enhance the success of systemic restructuring, but more importantly it describes principles or guidelines that appear to enha...

This article analyses HRIS impact in a SME based on a longitudinal case study. This SME evolves in the educational sector and has just operated a fusion of four private schools. A HRIS (time management & activity software) is launched. A contextualist perspective is taken from 2002 to 2010 based on various stakeholders interviews (external actors as consultant; internal actors as HR manager, Fi...

Designing a systems engineering curriculum is a complex process, not in the least because it involves a variety of academic professionals whose perceptions and interests rarely concur from the onset. The variety in stakeholders breeds variety not only in values and objectives, but also in supposed—and mostly tacit—views of an educational system. In such an ambiguous design context, models serve...

This study aimed to address a gap in current research on cultural responsiveness by introducing the Culturally Responsive Practices for Māori Scale (CRPMS), a self-report instrument designed to measure schools’ culturally responsive practices in relation to Māori students. Within this paper, the development and analysis of the factorial structure and psychometric properties of the CRPMS are pre...

Our research explores the combination of synchronous and asynchronous collaboration tools for global software development. In this paper we assess the impact of tool-mediated inspections to improve requirements negotiation meetings with stakeholders spread over different continents. We present the design of our investigation in an educational environment, in a course where the clients and devel...

Several policy alternatives exist to protect environmental quality. Environmental nonprofits advocating for better environmental quality must often choose what policies to advocate and support. This article argues that environmental nonprofits will do best by designing strategies of advocacy contingent on the net costs to the stakeholders and paying attention to the crowding-out effects of mone...