Dear Noble Professional Colleagues,
SWAIAP in conjunction with ARC Institute of Germany is organizing the maiden edition of the West African Audit Championship slated for this October using Serious Business Games.
WHAT IS SERIOUS BUSINESS GAMES?
Serious Business Games are training courses and at the same time animating games, which were not developed for entertainment purposes. In technologically advanced areas, such as medicine, aviation or the military, numerous Serious Business Games have already been developed for educational purposes. In the area of business training, however, they have only been introduced in recent years.
Classroom training is complex to organize and costly to deliver. Traditional e-learning courses are not engaging and have low completion and knowledge transfer rates. More organizations are using Serious Business Games to effectively teach the important soft skills that are vital for advancement.
In the context of company training, Serious Business Games offer users numerous gamification techniques for their training, which allow them to further improve the benefits gained through the courses.
Game-based learning refers to the use of leveraging the inherent excitement and stickiness of a game environment as the framework for an educational course. Serious Business Games are visually appealing and dynamic, they are both exciting and addicting and their use in education leads to higher learning rates and higher course completion rates than traditional classroom and “on-line” training courses.
In order to make the right decisions in everyday working life, experience is needed that can only be acquired to a limited extent through theoretical input. As a rule, they are gained in professional practice, on the one hand through daily actions and on the other hand mostly on the basis of the knowledge gained through correct or wrong decisions, which most times could be costly. At this point, serious business games can make a special contribution: they create a risk-free space for action, in which users can try out various strategies for everyday business life in a business game. This happens for the training participants without having to bear possible negative consequences professionally, which would entail acting in reality, and they receive direct feedback about it. Serious business games thus contribute to improving the planning and decision-making behavior of individuals and groups. The use of gamification in education ensures that users not only learn key concepts, but also practice applying acquired knowledge in exciting real-world simulations.
HOW TO PLAY:
Just like most computer games, you follow the sequences of the game by giving commands while the graphics perform the command in a simulated environment. As you study and solve the challenge, the system rewards you with marks. When you apply the wrong answer, your marks are deducted and you are revert back to the right answer in that order until the course is completed and your scores measured against the total scores to determine your performance and the game is over.
THE AUDIT RESEARCH CENTER | ARC-INSTITUTE
ARC Institute is one of the leading strategic think tanks in the internal audit industry. It focuses on the issues that have a significant impact on the performance of internal audit departments with a goal to improve the capability of the supported internal audit departments in a sustainable way using Serious Business Games.
Serious Business Games are training courses and at the same time animating games, which were not developed for entertainment purposes. In technologically advanced areas, such as medicine, aviation or the military, numerous Serious Business Games have already been developed for educational purposes. In the area of business training, however, they have only been introduced in recent years.
Classroom training is complex to organize and costly to deliver. Traditional e-learning courses are not engaging and have low completion and knowledge transfer rates… More organizations are using Serious Business Games to effectively teach the important soft skills that are vital for advancement.
In the context of company training, Serious Business Games offer users numerous gamification techniques for their training, which allow them to further improve the benefits gained through the courses.
Another priority in educational games is experiential learning through the player’s handling of learning objects in simulations. Serious business games offer the user the opportunity to acquire the content either independently or in cooperation or interaction within a learning and training community. This is accompanied by an intrinsic motivation to learn, since the participant is rewarded by the momentum or positive gaming experience. The possibility to provide employees with normative knowledge in the form of “knowing that”, e.g. for the execution of individual work processes and methods, as well as the simulative implementation in the form of “knowing how” for practical application, is the special strength of this form of learning.
The ARC Institute in conjunction SWAIAP supports its customers in Africa across industries with training and consulting services along a knowledge value chain. The ARC Institute is the innovation and premium umbrella brand.
The ARC Institute focuses on networking between science and practice.
The focus is on further and new development in cooperation with experts, companies and associations in order to maintain practical relevance and to develop methods, tools and concepts that can be implemented. The results, developed in dialogue with industry experts, serve as guidelines and adaptation possibilities for practice today, in order to be able to increase the overall benefit of the company on a long-term and sustainable basis.
The ARC Institute currently supports not only leading supranational institutions, but also numerous listed companies and savings banks in research, consulting and personnel development projects.
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NB: Induction fee can be paid in installments but certificate will be issued only to those who finished payments before induction day.
ALL PAYMENTS TO:
Society For West African Internal Audit Practitioners (SWAIAP)
NAIRA ACCOUNT:
Fidelity Bank Plc
Acct. Num: 5600583752
DOLLAR ACCOUNT:
Correspondent Bank – Citibank, NA111,
Wall Street New York, NY 10043
Swift Code – CITIUS33.
ABA- 021000089.
Beneficiary Bank – Fidelity Bank Plc.
Usd A/c – 36115264
Swift Code – FIDTNGLA.
Further Credit:
Beneficiary A/c Name – Society For West African Internal Audit Practitioners (SWAIAP)
Beneficiary A/c No -5250346549