Moderator's Roles:
Residential Teaching/Learning Resource

To ensure role-playing is a learning activity instead of just a game or entertainment, the online role-play moderator needs to recognise learning opportunities. The online role-play moderator fosters learning opportunities by providing suggestions or highlighting relevant theory and resources to the roles. The online role-play moderator should promote reflection and consideration of alternatives. However when suggesting alternatives (always plural!), it is important to ensure that the learner takes responsibility themselves for their role’s actions. Since online role-play fits well with domains where there are no black and white answers, the online role-play moderator should keep an open mind. Even actions which seem unlikely to occur should be allowed either for the sake of "what-if" testing or for the sake of creating counter examples which are useful when debriefing.

  : Librarian link

A hyperlink or good working relationship with your Learning Resource Centre (Librarian) will provide excellent learning support for your participants.
Simon O'Mallon, DMIT