Using games for teaching crisis communication in higher education and training

Abstract

Terror actions and catastrophes are frequently described in media. As more and more countries experience terror actions and natural disasters, there has been a greater focus on learning how to handle and to manage them. In Norway on the 22 To use games to support the hands on training can thus provide the learners with valuable know how, and support their learning outcome. The learning from this will be beneficial to the organizations they work in as they will have an experience that will aid them in the work on planning for and preparing for crisis in their own organizations.

An Analysis of a Video Game on Cognitive Abilities: A Study to Enhance Psychomotor Skills via Game-Play

“…Moreover, various educational games have been rigorously investigated through studies and proven to be effective tools to increase motivation of participants in learning a specific topic such as computer programming [30]. As serious games hold relatively low risk of experiential learning curves, they are being used in a wide variety of fields from mental health to even crisis management [31], [32]. It is clear that there is a huge potential in using games both as learning tools and a motivator particularly in education, health and training.…”

“…Having done a deep review of the literature in this area, the psychomotor skill categories were divided into visual response, attention and eye-hand coordination. All of these categories were drawn from the recent work available in the literature [9] [10] [25] [31]. It should be noted that these three categories are not the only core psychomotor skills mentioned in the literature as there are many other cognitive and motor processes that are mentioned as part of psychomotor skills such as body control, awareness and anticipation.…”