by Rich Rousseau
24. March 2006 01:01
A coworker, who is a big fan of
WOW, sent me this
link.
It
describes how MMORPGs provide "experiential learning" in a safe
environment. Meaning you put together a team of players to slay
the dragon, you fail and your character dies. In real life you'd
be dead (and in real life it wouldn't be a dragon but perhaps a team of
coworkers to solve the budget crisis and it wouldn't be dead but maybe
fired). In your virtual life you
continue and form another team while learing from your mistakes.
The cost of failure was very low. IRL, you will certainly
continue trying and learing from your experiences, but the costs are
much higher.
Anyways, the article talks about a recent hire for Yahoo! and how he
used he experience building a large online guild online to highlight
his IT management skillz IRL. A quick interesting read.
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