SIMULAB Community on business simulations

• Grant number: 07/08276-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2008
• End date: February 28, 2009
• Field of knowledge: Applied Social Sciences - Administration - Business Administration
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia
• Grantee: Antonio Carlos Aidar Sauaia
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Economia, Administração e Contabilidade (FEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Classes in undergraduate courses in Business Administration, Accounting and Economics are mainly based on Lectures as teaching method, oriented to knowledge memorizing by the teachers as protagonists. With the adoption of Business Simulation Laboratories (simulations + business games + theoretical and epirical research) at FEA/USP/SP it has been possible to orient the learning process to a knowledge understanding in search of a significant learning process. (AU)