Novicraft¶
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Evidence · 4 claims (4 for) · 1 study (1 qualitative),q2· 0 of 1 report an effect size · 4 claims rest on one study
Description¶
Novicraft is a computer-based team simulation game developed by a multidisciplinary research-based team for teamwork, leadership, and management training.
Components¶
- Novicraft computer-based awareness simulation game for team, leadership, and management training: Novicraft is, in the article's words, "a computer-based awareness game, designed particularly for team, leadership, and management training", developed by a multidisciplinary research-based team and informed by learning and motivation theories. Played in real time in teams of three to five on an island-escape scenario, it uses scripts to assign members different resources so that "there is no possibility of free riding to escape from the island as a team". Its five tasks each target different teamwork, collaboration, and leadership skills, and its theoretical basis is Belbin's nine team roles and Kogler Hill's team leadership model. (Elina Riivari et al. (2021))
Claims¶
- Team members' technical aptitude shaped role adoption, with less game-experienced members taking passive roles and power asymmetries limiting exploration [+W]
- A computer-based simulation game helped students apply theoretical team-role knowledge to identify team roles in practice and evaluate their own performance in a role [+W]
- Team spirit motivated slower teams to persist, and the co-located classroom setting revealed the physical, face-to-face nature of teamwork [+W]
- Team leadership in the game emerged as shared and shifting, distributed to whoever held the needed information or first solved the task [+W]
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Key Sources¶
- Elina Riivari, Marke Kivijärvi, Anna-Maija Lämsä. (2021). Learning teamwork through a computer game: for the sake of performance or collaborative learning? Education Tech Research Dev. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11423-021-10009-4
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Novicraft is a computer-based team simulation game developed by a multidisciplinary research-based team for teamwork, leadership, and management training. |
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