http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com Just another Today.com weblog Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:59:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Kids can play the business simulation game “Informatist ”. It’s a free business game that’s available online. It’s great for the kids and their parents too. In fact friends can compete with each other and see who the best of them is. The free online business game can be easily ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2008/04/16/measures-to-counteract-cheating/ Each business requires a set of skills in order to go ahead. Now kids can understand the value of learning skills and doing business. Informatist is a free business game that is available on the internet. This business simulation game allows kids also to play for free. Of course ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2008/04/16/kids-learn-the-skills-of-the-business/ Online business learning? Sure, one can go to the University of Phoenix or a plethora of other business schools which offer an online undergraduate or graduate business degree (MBA).  The problem with these online approaches is that the business school education is time-consuming, expensive, and—dare we say it—boring to students ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/the-business-school-comes-to-the-web/ The case method, as taught at major business schools, has been shown over nearly a century to help turn students with academic backgrounds into experienced business competitors with good judgment—or at least the confidence that their judgments can prevail over others in meaningful ways.  Whether actual or imagined, business simulation ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/informatist-brings-the-harvard-case-method-online/ Business school simulation used to be the exclusive property of elite business schools like Kellogg, Harvard and Stanford.  Modern online gaming technology, using massively interactive databases and other online tools, has allowed high school and college students to learn basic business principles online without spending two years or one hundred ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/business-school-simulation-online/ "Business" sounds boring to most high school and college students.  Many students think of the study of business as the rote learning of a large number of dry analytical techniques, such as accounting, decision analysis, microeconomics and decision theory.  While each of these tools is important to the solution of ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/learning-business-principles-requires-more-than-book-learning/ Algebra, calculus, US history—American high school students have a panoply of regular courses that they must take in order to obtain a high school degree.  Only half of American high school graduates then complete a four-year degree in college.  It's ironic that many of these students don't have the opportunity ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/how-informatist-works-for-teens/ The Sims took the world by storm when they came out in the late 1990's.  Now business simulation technology is taking The Sims to the next step—learning real-world business lessons from massive online business simulation gaming. For those who don't know about the Sims, this was a game which simulated the ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/simulations-are-the-thing-from-the-sims-to-business-simulation/ Simulations seem to be ubiquitous these days.  In World War II, crude "Lear Simulators" taught budding pilots how to fly before they had to go up in real planes.  By giving them some of the same instruments and movements as in a real plane, they were able to learn what ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/simulators-for-real-life-business-simulations/ Business is not about being perfect.  It isn't even about being right most of the time.  The key to business is to try a lot of things and make a lot of mistakes, but to learn from every mistake made and improve one's performance over time.  The makers of a ... http://InformatistBusinessSimulationGame.today.com/2007/06/09/mistakes-are-good-for-you/