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\u201cWhat would you do if your boss asked you to fudge the numbers in a report?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWhat would you do if a colleague revealed they were lying to customers about product?\u201d<\/em>
\n\u201cWhat would you do if asked whether your company should install new, expensive pollution-abatement technology?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

These sorts of questions are common in ethics and CSR classrooms. And students are typically happy to consider these \u201cwhat ifs\u201d. But talk is cheap in the comfort of a casual classroom discussion. What if there was a way to safely put the students \u201cinto\u201d those situations, to make them more real?<\/p>\n

There are ways to do that! Over the last few years, I\u2019ve presented twice at the SBE Annual Meeting about text-based \u201cmini-simulations\u201d for classroom use. These brief simulations (5-10 minutes) can be played on any computer, smartphone, or tablet. They put students in the middle of the action, situating them in realistic workplace scenarios and asking them to make decisions. The decisions they make with a simple \u2018click\u2019 shape what happens next, and how the story evolves. This method produces surprising levels of student engagement \u2013 students get absorbed in these simulations, and in our experience they achieve a higher level of appreciation of the challenges such questions pose.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve recently co-founded a small company \u2013 Choice Point Solutions, Inc. \u2013 aimed at making these simulations available for use in the classroom as well as in corporate training. As a \u201cthank you\u201d to audiences at the SBE, Choice Point is making a cluster of these simulations freely available to members of the SBE for classroom use, at choicepoint.ca\/sbe-classroom\/<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(no log-in required) We welcome your feedback!<\/p>\n

For more information, feel free to contact me at chris@choicepoint.ca<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris MacDonald<\/strong>
\nTed Rogers School of Management
\nRyerson University
\nToronto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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