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Serious and Simulation Games – A Definition Approach

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Information systems used in modern business become more complex because the holistic approach of process implementation turns increasingly into the focus of corporate’s demands. To handle such Very Large Business Applications (VLBA), the recruiting of tomorrow’s new experts is an important educational task. Business simulation games are an effective teaching method: On the one hand, the participants learn the theoretical concepts. On the other hand, they can adapt their new knowledge. But there are lots of different serious games, even in literature multiple expressions exist. In this paper, a literature review is performed to mark out different types of games with an educational character. It is found out, that the most common expressions are serious gaming and (business) simulation games.

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science, Department of Technical and Business Information Systems, Very Large Business Applications Lab, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106, Magdeburg, Germany

    Bastian Kurbjuhn

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  2. Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    John Domingue

  3. Poznań University of Economics, Al. Niepodległości 10, 60-967, Poznań, Poland

    Krzysztof Węcel

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Kurbjuhn, B. (2012). Serious and Simulation Games – A Definition Approach. In: Abramowicz, W., Domingue, J., Węcel, K. (eds) Business Information Systems Workshops. BIS 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 127. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34228-8_17

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