Launch of a research project with HEC Lausanne
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- Created on January 2012
This research project aims at defining technical and functional guidelines for serious game designers in general, and for the use of serious games in the context of large courses on project management (more than 100 students) in particular.
This project is funded by the Fund for Pedagogical Innovation (FIP) at University of Lausanne.
WEGAS is funded by RCSO
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- Created on December 2011
A new research grant obtained.
Research aspects of our project WEGAS are funded by RCSO-TIC (Réseau de Compétences de Suisse occidentale en technologies de l'information et de la communication). A new partnership with Haute Ecole Arc (HE-Arc) also begin.
New Research Project with “Ecole des sciences criminelles” at University of Lausanne
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- Created on December 2011
Launch of a new research project aiming at the development of a simulation game for the course “Investigation of the Crime Scene” at the University of Lausanne. This project is funded by the Fund for Pedagogical Innovation (FIP). The first version of the simulation should be operational at end of 2012.
A specific training session for Merk Serono
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- Created on November 2011
AlbaSIM was used for a training program at Merk Serono Supply Chain Academy. For this program, we developed a specific scenario based on actual data and focusing on the project initiation phase.
"AlbaSIM Project Management Simulation was a key contribution to the success of our SC Academy. A specific simulation scenario was developed for one of our case studies, thus making it more challenging and interactive. The simulation was used by different groups during the training session and we were quite impressed by the results of the groupwork as well as the originality of the groups' proposals and presentations."
Christian BOREL
S&OP Process Director
Team is growing: S. Roth
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- Created on October 2011
Steffen Roth recently joined the AlbaSIM team. Sociologist by origin, he holds a PhD in innovation management from the Chemnitz University of Technology and pursues another PhD in organizational sociology at the University of Geneva. Steffen will contribute to the design of new games, to the development of international versions of yet existing games and to research at the interface of serious games and innovation management.
AlbaSIM in Rome: ITAIS conference
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- Created on October 2011
A paper written by a research team of the HEC Lausanne and members of AlbaSIM was presented at ITAIS 2011 conference.
Bonazzi R., Missonier S., Jaccard D., Bienz P., Fritscher B. & Fernandes E. 2011. Analysis of serious games implementation for project management courses. Proceeding of the 8th Conference of the Italian Chapter of AIS (ItAIS).
AlbaSIM invited to educational seminar
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- Created on September 2011
The University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO) is organizing a workshop on teaching with simulations.
AlbaSIM is invited to present their project management simulation as well as its various fields of application (problem based learning, lectures, seminars, etc).
New team member : F-X Aeberhard
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- Created on July 2011
François-Xavier Aeberhard join the team. After his Master in Computer Science at EPFL, François-Xavier worked at Siemens Corporate Research (Princeton) and as User Interface Engineer at Ubisoft (Video Game Development). François-Xavier is also an independent web designer.
He will work on the development of new simulations and on the new project WEGAS (Web Game Authoring System).
AlbaSIM at HEC Lausanne
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- Created on May 2011
Pilot experiments in playing the AlbaSIM Project Management Simulation with more than 100 students of Bachelor courses on project management are currently conducted in collaboration with the School of Business at the University of Lausanne (HEC Lausanne).
Students evaluated the simulation very positively. AlbaSIM will thus be reused for both bachelor and master courses at HEC Lausanne next year.
