The Warcraft MBA
New study examines how online games can teach business skills.
By Ryan Olson
A little news report on the use of MMORPGs in education.
“The Palo Alto, California-based company, which teamed up with IBM and researchers from Stanford and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for the study, found that logic and visualization skills, as well as creative thinking and collaborative abilities, are widely applicable in both domains.”.
“Nonetheless, the report emphasizes the importance of online environments in facilitating the development of leadership qualities. Games make it easy to collect and see information about a user’s performance and offer multiple ways in which players can communicate and collaborate. And the speed at which gamers play and interact gives them a chance to develop their skills quickly.”.
According to the skills gained through playing MMORPGs are enablers for business success and may even by vital for developing the next generation fo corporate leaders, (more info here).
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