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Support for this project was provided 2006-2009 by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council Ltd, an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations. The views expressed in the project do not necessarily reflect the views of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

Overview

Project EnROLE is building an Australian community of university clusters, state networks and international partnerships, to assist dissemination of the teaching technique of online role play in university education.

Online (and blended) role plays are designed to increase understanding of real life human interaction and dynamics. Participants:

• assume a role in someone else's shoes or in someone else's situation
• to do authentic tasks in an authentic context
• involving substantial in-role human interaction such as collaboration, negotiation, debate.

Interaction between roles is substantially in an online environment. Learning outcomes are assessable and generate opportunities for student reflection.

Online role plays are being used in discipline areas such as:
Engineering, International Relations, Media, Journalism, Public Relations, Communications, Business, Environment, Health, Law, Language, Economics, History, Politics, Education, and Geography.