What is Role Playing

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Is a pedagogical tool frequently used by instructors for interpreting authentic situations. It contextualizes a new reality in which the most appropriate response to each situation is given. Learn more in: Mixed-Reality Immersive Environment as an Instructional Tool for Building Educational Leadership Capacity: Is This the Future?

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A training technique in which a participant takes the position of another person and acts out what that person would say or do. Learn more in: A Safer Place for Women: Online Education

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An element in gaming in which players assume the roles of other people. Learn more in: Simulation, Games, and Virtual Environments in IT Education

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Learning through role playing. Learn more in: Education in Higher Education: Trends and Challenges – Innovate in School and/or Innovate the School

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Taking on and acting as a fictional persona; in this context, participation in a role-playing game. This may include narrative, representational, and ludic elements to different degrees. Learn more in: Playing Roles in the MMORPG Kingdom of Loathing

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Is the action of taking a certain job or activity inside a group of beings (teacher, student, janitor, policeman, etc.). Talking about games, it means specifically becoming a character inside a simulation. In computer science role playing will be selecting a certain type of warrior, agent, scientist, driver, or any other job description the game needs. The main purpose of taking a role in a game is develop the skills the character have, and make easier the task needed to achieve the games goal. Learn more in: Towards a Role-Playing Game Procedural Dungeon Generation Strategy to Help Developing Working Skills