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Hi, pity you are not using Powersim Constructor. Powersim allows for multi-user simulation games and a multi-user version of the beer game is included with the software. I have adapted this (mainly in the user interface) and used it with undergraduate, post-graduate and senior government & defen...

This query has prompted some invaluable responses on teaching-learning approaches. I have been challenged to arise from passive reader to offer my approach to using the beer game. 1. Typically the first lecture of both undergraduate and post-graduate courses focus on "I am part of the system&qu...

Re George Backuss comment on John Stermans suggestion that SD community should be aware of changes in attitudes and practices in related disciplines: >>Johns points are well taken, but.... >>one does not see OR much outside of the OR journals. I note that the recent Conference of the UK Operations R...

Recent news reports from around the world indicate an impending market shortage of IT&T skilled workers. The Australian Government has just announced the establishment of a joint Government-Industry "IT&T Skills Exchange" to develop policy initiatives to address this problem for Au...

John Swanson schrieb: > While still slightly stunned by this, I know I have met people with exactly > this view. Why does this mis-representation of SD persist? Why is it there > at all? In part this mis-representation is a reflection, perpetuated by fundamentalists from both the econometrics and sy...

Competency based job profiling, competency based assessment and competency based training are becoming the orthodoxy in english speaking countries, especially in the primary and secondary school systems and in technical (sub-professional) training. The US / NATO / Australian military training system...

As a teaching tool, the beer game is magnificent. After playing the game I build with the students an uncontrolled model ... and of course we get increasingly dramatic oscillations. Then come the lessons: 1. To what extent is the behaviour due to use of Euler rather than Runge-Cutta X? (Judiciously ...

Niall Palfreymans comment on "patterns" &shareable archetypes struck a chord. Four years ago I started making available to my post grad students the major projects from previous years ... the good, bad and indifferent. An immediate jump in quality and sophistication was evident in thei...

Thanks to John Sterman for emphasising "If you do decide to use a built-in function, you must be prepared to justify why it is appropriate and what its limitations are". This goes for use of built-in delay functions, time-step and the integration method. In relation to the discussion of de...