In 2001, a group of 11 practitioners from three vocational colleges in South Australia won a LearnScope Innovations project to explore the potential of web-based role-play simulations for soft skills training. LearnScope is another highly successful ANTA national professional development initiative which focuses on team learning.

The team designed and facilitated three web-based roleplays. We were mentored by two talented roleplay designers, Roni Linser and Albert Ip, the developers of the Fablusi roleplay software.

Report:
Find the full report of this most fruitful learning experience at: http://www.learnscope.anta.gov.au/LearnScope/golearn.asp?Category=11&DocumentId=624
Our findings were both enlightening and sobering. We discovered that designing and moderating online role-plays was challenging and we came away with four key lessons

Key learning:

1. Experience a simulation before you design one
2. Design with a team
3. Moderation is a challenge with many levels of complexity
4. Debriefing the simulation is absolutely critical.