Högskolan i Skövde

This chapter explains how the transfer of knowledge and understanding from a simulation game to the real world not only depends on the set-up and execution of the debriefing phase but also on the design and implementation of preceding phases. Learning transfer is characterized as participants’ enactments—in future contexts—of the outcomes of a game. A number of interconnected building blocks that influence and enhance the learning transfer are thoroughly explored. These are participants’ motivations, skills, and opportunities, the constitution of the simulation game, facilitation style, and debriefing set-up.