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The video demonstrates a complex, simulated oil rig well control operation where a crew overcomes multiple equipment failures and complications to safely kill an influx and prevent a potential disaster.
A video showing the Building Leadership Simulation Centre with all its equipments and some training scenes in progress
A video showing the Emerson Process simulated plant with all its equipments, tanks, pipes, sensors, controllers, etc
For Real UK provides training services for the real world. We have a background in dramatic arts and we use this as our platform to deliver highly immersive specific training and experiences to our clients.
Advances in computing and collective participation are reviving ambitious efforts to build large-scale simulations that model complex global systems to better anticipate the future.
Helvartis, a non-profit founded in 1994, provides practical, adaptable commercial training programs and connects skilled participants with recruiting companies through its network of practice enterprises.
A nice and inspirational short movie about a kid learning business from her mum and much more
A series of videos realized and published on YouTube by Simon Usherwood. Abstract was generated by AI from the transcripts, revised manualy
A series of videos realized and published on YouTube by Simon Usherwood. Abstract was generated by AI from the transcripts, revised manualy
A first-person account of a high-fidelity, pilot-scale carbon capture lab simulating offshore control-room operations to examine decision-making, failure, and team cohesion under pressure.
This is an event organised by MA Conference Interpreting students at London Metropolitan University.
The SIF-400 training system simulates a smart factory using Industry 4.0 technologies to prepare learners with practical skills for the future of digitalized manufacturing.
This video presents a modular training village that recreates urban settings to deliver scenario-based instruction across incident management, command, investigations, custody operations, and security preparedness.
An overview of a modular police training village in Singapore that uses realistic urban simulations and simulated munitions to prepare officers for incident management, use-of-force, custody, and public-security operations.
This video presents a flexible, discipline-agnostic framework for designing and assessing teaching simulations, from clarifying objectives to logistics and outputs.
Students participate in a UNFCCC-style policy simulation of the Paris climate negotiations, developing negotiation skills and drafting pledges aimed at meeting the 2°C target by 2100.
This video presents Miller Electric's Augmented Arc, an augmented reality welding training system that overlays computer-generated welds onto real workpieces to deliver safe, cost-effective, and data-driven instruction across multiple processes and joint types.
This NexLearn webinar advocates a blended approach that integrates classroom and virtual simulations, role plays, and targeted instruction to strengthen decision-making and problem-solving skills amid uncertainty.
A founder presents a three-part approach—early-career training, manager development, and peer-to-peer video learning—to accelerate Gen Z and Millennial readiness for corporate environments and help organizations adapt to incoming talent.
A video documents a campus active-shooter crisis simulation emphasizing coordinated response across people and plans, emergency calls, and media management to mitigate operational and reputational risk.
Crowd Control Simulation Exercise in National Police Academy, Maharajgunj, Kathmandu
A classroom simulation uses tangible tokens and real-world data to explore the human impacts and policy trade-offs of cutting and reallocating federal spending.
An overview of the Day One platform, which uses dynamic role-play, immediate feedback, and analytics to accelerate call center competency, reduce attrition, and scale consistent customer service training.
An instructor-led demonstration and observation-based training session presents the full flow of a two-hour family inheritance mediation and a post-session debrief.
A practitioner narrative detailing how CORSON Fire & Security built a comprehensive, hands-on training center to standardize technician education across fire protection disciplines and improve field performance.
This video explains how an academic health system builds and sustains an enterprise-wide simulation program through research-informed planning, objective-driven design, and debriefing to enhance interprofessional education and confidence across learner levels.
This video outlines the design, scaling, and benefits of a cost-effective, full-scale glass-top control room simulator that replicates plant operations for high-fidelity operator training and rapid change validation.
The video shows sequences of crisis management situation as an aftermath of chemical accident. Participants of the medical domain are interviewed.
Overview of Robert Gordon University's DrillSIM 6000 simulator, showcasing immersive drilling and well control training, human factors evaluation, and research applications to enhance operational readiness.
This video shows an ELPHINSTONE simulated work environment (USA)
A mock UK employment tribunal examines whether dismissal for Scottish Defence League affiliation was fair, weighing employee conduct, reputational risk, and third-party funding pressure.
This video presents EUROCONTROL’s ESCAPE real-time air traffic control simulator, highlighting its configurable architecture, interoperability, and training-supported deployment for assessing new tools, procedures, and airspace designs.
Participant reflections from a facilitated life simulation reveal how low income, time scarcity, and housing precarity shape decision-making, stress, and empathy in credit union contexts.
A university course uses a diplomatic negotiation simulation to connect theory with practice, develop collaboration and communication skills, and prepare students for real-world challenges on topics like immigration and refugees.
An instructor-led earthquake simulator session reproduces the 1995 Kobe earthquake and a predicted Hanshin scenario, emphasizing hands-on safety protocols and experiential disaster preparedness.
This video showcases how the Dean's Summer Fellowship fosters faculty-mentored, hands-on undergraduate research in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Dayton, highlighting methods, resources, and career-focused outcomes across disciplines.
The author outlines practical role-plays, simulations, debates, and presentations to build a student-centered language classroom, detailing materials, set-up, and assessment strategies.
Mark Koloff defines experiential learning as reflective practice rather than mere doing, illustrating with a bicycle learning case and offering facilitation guidance and resources for educators.
A Penn State experiential learning simulation has students and law advisers negotiate South China Sea maritime boundaries using international law and UN Charter principles.
A Business English course showed that using smartphones and digital tools for hands-on, experiential tasks can effectively replace traditional paper-based learning while improving student engagement and practical skills.
A profile of WVU’s hands-on Forensic Accounting and Fraud Investigation certification led by Dr. Riley, detailing search-warrant simulations, real-case data mining, and courtroom evidence training that prepare graduates to prevent, detect, and prosecute fraud.
A three-day, practice-oriented law school workshop where experienced attorneys coach students on real-world litigation and expert-witness skills, highlighting rigorous preparation and professional readiness.
The video explains how to design a minimal-preparation crisis game to teach negotiation, covering objectives, scenario design, group logistics, procedures, assessment options, and feedback.
The video argues for shifting from trainer-centric, classroom-heavy programs to a learner-centric model that leverages social and informal networks to improve performance and knowledge sharing at work.
A WDAY 6 News field report documents a multi-agency, full-scale active shooter training at Fargo’s Davies High School, highlighting methods, challenges, and planned after-action improvements.
This video presents Georgetown Law’s immersive national security crisis simulation that integrates legal analysis and policy decision-making across federal, state, congressional, and media actors under real-time pressure and expert evaluation.
Students describe a Global Virtual Teams course integrating a week-long factory simulation with cross-cultural, technology-mediated collaboration between U.S. and French teammates.
An overview of how GSE Systems builds data-driven, high-fidelity simulators with real-world controls to train power plant operators across multiple technologies and meet growing workforce demands.
An overview of how a Police Sciences department employs the Hydra Suite to run an immersive, recorded missing-person investigation simulation for undergraduates, emphasizing reflective practice over assessment.
This video presents Emirates’ immersive, simulator-based cabin crew training that replicates A380 and 777 operations to produce operationally ready staff and uphold industry-leading safety and service standards.
The video outlines how in-room enterprise IT simulations translate theory into practice to build service-management maturity, align stakeholders from CxO to operations, and deliver actionable pathways to improved service delivery.
A School of Nursing and Health Sciences uses an immersive poverty simulation to prepare undergraduate nursing and nutrition students to deliver equitable, individualized care informed by social determinants.
This video presents how a UK further education college implements a national practice firm franchise to deliver work-based business qualifications through a safe, simulated enterprise with international trading and clear employability outcomes.
This video presents opening remarks and acknowledgments for the inaugural ICC Mediation Asia-Pacific Competition in Melbourne, followed by the final round’s live, simulated commercial mediation between student teams under professional facilitation and judging.
A field-based overview of Air Canada’s eight-week flight attendant training in Montreal, emphasizing safety-first instruction, emergency procedures, and full-cabin simulation.
This video presents the Building Leadership Simulation Center, an immersive, scenario-based training facility that accelerates safety, leadership, and productivity learning for Australia’s construction workforce.
In this courtroom examination, farrier Kit Manville testifies via interpreters about an alleged firearm incident, interpersonal dynamics at Ashgate Farm, and his subsequent termination, with cross-examination addressing credibility and record clarification.
This video documents an interprofessional simulation in which EMS, nursing, and allied health students manage a high-fidelity domestic-violence emergency, emphasizing realistic patient interaction, teamwork, and clinical decision-making.
A facilitated ITSM simulation demonstrates how integrated processes, metrics, and cross-functional collaboration move a business from loss to profit across iterative rounds.
A participant explains how small-group stakeholder simulations and role-play foster deep engagement, multi-perspective debate, collaborative decisions, and tangible learning outcomes beyond textbooks or news.
This video presents MILES, a collaborative USC platform that uses a life-sized virtual human and classroom analytics to train clinicians in motivational interviewing for work with returning veterans and service members.
An inside look at an Indian call centre’s mock accreditation process, highlighting scripted role-plays, support from experienced coaches, and the performance challenges trainees must overcome before going live.
A scripted mock board meeting used to train newly elected Mississippi municipal officials on ethics, open meetings, and procurement law through real-world cases and post-skit critique.
Dispute between shareholders of a mining company in Sweden and Finland
A staged yet realistic pitch meeting and negotiation models early-stage venture financing dynamics, including diligence, milestone tranches, CEO hiring contingencies, and best practices for founder–investor engagement.
An overview of how Victoria University’s law program leverages court-based experiences and mooting to build practical advocacy skills and enhance student employability through exposure to senior legal professionals.
Orlando Medical Institute provides advanced simulation-based training across diverse clinical settings to enhance healthcare professionals’ skills and improve patient outcomes through both on-site and in-hospital education programs.
An ICU physician at Boston Children's Hospital presents patient-specific, lifelike medical simulations—built from imaging, 3D printing, and Hollywood effects—as preoperative rehearsals that enhance team performance and improve outcomes in rare pediatric surgeries.
A first-person account of a high-fidelity, pilot-scale carbon capture lab simulating offshore control-room operations to examine decision-making, failure, and team cohesion under pressure.
A poem to Simulated Worplaces
A hospital-led simulation demonstrates Ebola preparedness through PPE training, isolation workflows, spill containment, transport protocols, and debrief-driven process improvements.
This video outlines the core components and organizational requirements for effective building evacuation, including control centers, assembly points, and emergency communication and alarm systems.
A concise overview of why crises occur in healthcare and how crisis resource management, grounded in simulation-based training, enhances communication, leadership, and patient safety.
A 2017 moot court final oral argument analyzes ICC admissibility under Article 17, gravity, and the admissibility of evidence allegedly obtained by torture in Prosecutor v. Newbery.
A Northern Portugal hospital’s simulation-based outreach engages nursery children in hands-on medical role-play and games to alleviate fear of healthcare encounters and improve attitudes toward treatment.
A moot-court exchange examines whether lockout and family-separation rules in temporary emergency shelters unreasonably limit South Africans’ constitutional rights to housing, dignity, and security.
The video outlines how role-play simulations are designed and assessed in undergraduate and master’s business courses to foster real-world decision-making under ambiguity.
This training video guides participants through SAP ERP reports and transactions needed to manage pricing and marketing in the first round of a distribution simulation, using a job aid and hands-on demonstrations.
A demonstration at Imperial’s White City campus shows how sequential simulation makes the patient journey visible, revealing communication, handover, and organizational challenges with lessons transferable beyond healthcare.
This video introduces sequential simulation, a method that uses real patient stories, clinicians, and actors to reenact care journeys and generate rich stakeholder feedback for healthcare improvement.
A multidisciplinary overview of Loyola University Chicago’s service- and experiential-learning models that connect students with community partners to conduct research, create deliverables, and achieve measurable impact.
Students reflect on a mock press conference in a crisis planning and communication course, highlighting role-play methods, real-time pressures, and learning outcomes.
A field report on the I Heart WV Parks collaboration in which Nicholas County Career and Technical Center students design, fabricate, and deliver 20 picnic tables for Watoga State Park using a simulated workplace model.
An overview of in-room enterprise IT simulations that translate theory into practice, build service-management maturity across iterative rounds, and drive stakeholder alignment for improvement programs.
Physiotherapy students describe how scripted, actor-led clinical simulations, feedback, and debriefing translate theory into patient-centered practice while reducing anxiety and improving communication.
A simulation-based program led by Dr. Satchford trains resident and senior physicians to deliver bad news compassionately using actors, video review, and structured feedback.
Dr. Veronica Kitchen explains how low-tech simulations and games in a world politics course cultivate experiential learning, decision-making under pressure, and theory application through structured debriefs.
An overview of how simulation-based education, grounded in adult learning theories, can be designed and delivered to motivate learners and achieve targeted outcomes.
A short scholarly video introduces situated learning and communities of practice, featuring Etienne Wenger’s clarification of core concepts, applications, and implications across education and organizations.
A trainee astronaut demonstrates Soyuz simulator procedures for onboard fire response, depressurization, and a time-critical emergency descent to Earth.
A courtroom proceeding captures opening statements and the first witness testimony in a Texas manslaughter case involving alleged texting-while-driving and a fatal motorcycle collision.
Three University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts students—Ricardo Bennett-Guzman, Pooja Shah, and Jamal Abdi—detail internships in arts, public relations, and community engagement, highlighting methods, deliverables, and career trajectories.
This video documents a high school simulated workplace where student-run companies adopt real-world processes—applications, interviews, handbooks, and timekeeping—to cultivate soft skills, academic transfer, certifications, and community impact.
A trailer for Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal introducing a method of full-scale social simulations to pre-plan difficult interactions, raising ethical questions about control, authenticity, and reality television.
An overview of The Situation Room Experience, a 40-role, technology-enabled foreign policy crisis simulation that uses primary sources to cultivate collaborative decision-making under pressure.
A concise, research-informed primer on designing, running, and debriefing classroom simulations that foster student creativity, focus, and curricular integration.
This video presents TSC Simulation's Virtual Control Room system, a standards-compliant, office-deployable platform for realistic operator training, emergency response drills, and performance assessment.
A Yokosuka-based mobile training team uses a simulated ship environment in Sasebo, Japan to teach and time U.S. Navy Sailors’ flooding and damage-control responses in a controlled, hands-on setting.
An interview with Dr. Veronica Kitchen on designing, facilitating, and debriefing simulations and games to teach world politics, emphasizing experiential learning, emotional engagement, and decision-making under pressure.
A media immersion at Toronto Police College showcases evidence-based, reality-based officer training—integrating PACER and Iacobucci recommendations—through hands-on scenarios and structured debriefs to deepen public understanding of frontline policing challenges.
This video explores how professional simulation environments in higher education prepare journalism and media students for industry demands through scaffolded experiential learning.
An immersive, facilitator-led in-room simulation approach that mirrors enterprise IT environments to build service management maturity and organizational buy-in from CxO strategy to operations.
A detailed record of a Model United Nations general assembly session focusing on the procedural debates and policy stances regarding child soldiers and nuclear non-proliferation.
This video details the standard operating procedures for financial institutions when handling customer reports of stolen payment cards and compromised account credentials.