Role Play
In a real-world scenario, students portray a role commonly seen in their professional field. Each student must face the unique challenges for their fictional role.
Why Create this Learning Experience
In this role play scenario, students can explore multiple viewpoints. With a guided scenario, students can interpret and apply standards or guidelines to a unique real-world situation. Engage student voice with this technique.
To foster an interactive and engaging activity be sure to clearly articulate the expectations and establish parameters within the prompt. See the additional considerations on how to appropriately use this activity.
Prompt
Assessment Type: Graded
Recommended Learning Tool: Discussion Forum or Assignment
Learning Domain: A robust online course will incorporate a variety of learning domains to support students’ achievement of the course outcomes. This activity is best suited for a High cognitive function.
If you are actively collaborating with a designer, please direct them to this resource if you are interested in utilizing this learning experience. It can be applied or adapted to your online course.
Additional Considerations
Consider the following recommendations to execute this activity effectively:
- This activity is useful for any discipline within a business context, including accounting.
- It is recommended to start with a smaller topic for undergraduate-level courses so students can practice the technique. Graduate-level courses can employ advance topics.
- It may be beneficial to hold a debrief after this activity.
- Clearly articulate activity instructions and expectations, such as purpose, context, collaboration methods, submission format, deadlines, netiquette, model submission examples.
- Consider a rubric to provide students with directions and how their submission(s) will be evaluated.