TOOLS FOR COLABORATIVE LEARNING: A ROLE-PLAYING PRACTICE

<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Role-playing is an active participation tool that facilitates cooperative learning....

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Main Authors: Marta Ortiz-de-Urbina Criado, Sonia Medina Salgado, Carmen De La Calle Durán
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 2010-11-01
Series:Education in the Knowledge Society
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Online Access:http://revistas.usal.es/index.php/revistatesi/article/view/7463
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Summary:<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="en-GB">Role-playing is an active participation tool that facilitates cooperative learning. It has also proved to be more effective in developing competencies than traditional methods. This technique is essential to make theory and practice compatible as is required in order to adapt subjects to the new education system based on the Bolonia’s agreement, especially in Social Sciences disciplines. Consequently, the objective of this paper is to show the effect and use of role-playing applied to management area. Therefore, we analyze and design the role-playing, putting it in practice in the classroom in Human Resource Management subject of different academic degrees. To conclude, this paper has shown the importance of role-playing as a learning tool and development of skills like work cooperation, problem and conflict solving, decision making, and managing complex systems.</span></span></span></p>
ISSN:2444-8729