Designing a Simulation Students Believe In

Most business communication courses teach the same core skills — audience awareness, message construction, persuasive strategy — through case studies students read about rather than situations students are actually in. I’ve spent the last several years testing a different premise: that the classroom itself can become the workplace, if you’re willing to design for it …

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Kevin Cassell’s Doctoral Dissertation

Why This Dissertation Matters — and What It Means for How You Learn Here’s something worth sitting with: most of what you know, you didn’t learn in a classroom. You learned it by doing things — by handling objects, navigating situations, watching others, trying and failing and trying again. You developed a feel for it. …

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