Description: This is a CDSN - CFC joint initiative to enable defence and security scholars to facilitate the sharing of experiences and of online tools. The idea is to have us meet to discuss strategies and tools (games, simulations, videos, audio materials, etc).
Participants have identified the topics they are covering and have provided some of the tools they would like to have for their defence and security classes. We have provided a list of links below from those who have such tools and are willing to share their experiences and offer suggestions for how to deploy such materials in the virtual classroom.
We will be holding another check-in meeting in October, in the meantime feel free to use these public resources and to submit your own via email here
Simulations
International Organizations & Zombies
for students to gain practical knowledge on 1. How various theories of IR envision international cooperation and the role of international organizations, and 2. How a multilateral negotiation works in practice.
Simulation tool
Nuclear-related simulation developed by CSIS
With over 20 simulation topics to choose from and custom-built online simulation software, ICONS is the premier provider of online role-play simulations for educators.
Tools
Identity Salience Exercise and Poetry
Powerpoint deck to use in a class
Hobbes, Prisoner’s Dilemma Diplomacy
Powerpoint deck to use in class
Flipgrid empowers social learning in PreK to PhD classrooms around the world. Use video the way your students do.
Gender Based Analysis Plus (GBA+) survey
Student assessment survey
Games
A great resource for understanding the prisoner's dilemma that allows students to 'play' with it, test out strategies, etc.
It's a multiplayer, web based implementation of the turn based strategy game Diplomacy by Avalon Hill, in which you have to try and conquer Europe. To win you have to be strategic and diplomatic, making deals and alliances with other players, and stabbing them in the back when it suits you best.
Practical Advice on Matrix Games
For those interested in wargames, especially matrix games this is a very useful handbook to start
This is an open source board game engine for those interested in developing online versions of some of the strategy/wargames
PApers
This study supports the finding that students participating in an online course perceive an increased level of their technology skills.
Article on distance learning lessons learned
CFC papers are retrievable by keyword in the title, author’s last name, or you can search for papers from a particular course or year.
The journal of political science education has a bunch of articles on online teaching
A blog post about group work as resilient
