THE USE OF COMPUTER-ASSISTED, INTERACTIVE ROLE-PLAY SIMULATION IN HONG KONG

This paper reports feedback from both undergraduate and postgraduate students' participation in Fish Bank, Ltd., a computer- assisted, interactive role-playing simulation in which teams are to manage a fishing company to compete in the fishing industry. The survey focused on how students viewed computer- assisted, interactive role-playing simulation as a learning tool for them and how they perceived that this type of role-playing simulation can actually help them understand the subject matter more in depth. Overall results are highly favorable at postgraduate level and favorable at undergraduate level respectively.