Serious game teaches students how cap-and-trade reduces CO2 emissions
Serious game teaches students how cap-and-trade reduces CO2 emissions
Serious game teaches students how cap-and-trade reduces CO2 emissions
July 4, 2022
Summary
Undergraduate Students Graduate Students Alumni and friends Faculty and Staff Information Chemical EngineeringNews2022July Serious game teaches students how cap-and-trade reduces CO2 emissions Game cards tress and power lines Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies, Jason Grove partnered with Neil Randall, Executive Director of the Game Institute and Ph.D. candidate Alex Fleck to create an interactive computer game where students can learn the mechanisms of the cap-and-trade system.
Games Institute Executive Director, Neil Randall commented on the Game Institute's role in the project, The Cap-and-Trade Simulation exemplifies the sort of innovative interdisciplinary collaboration that the Games Institute fosters.
The game In the game, there are five possible roles.
Grove explains why the game was created, It's important to develop this teaching tool because people have heard of cap-and-trade it's difficult to understand how it works, hopefully, and this game will give students ideas of how cap-and-trade can achieve emission reductions.
Future game applications The game is already proving it has useful applications and will be used in an international collaboration titled 2D-MATURE that will train graduate students to take 2D materials from theoretical to commercialized products.
The game is available in two formats, as an online game or a board game version both featuring original art created by University of Waterloo alumnus Krystyna Oakman.
Learn more about the game on the Games Institute Website.
Reference
University of Waterloo. (2022, July 4). Serious game teaches students how cap-and-trade reduces CO2 emissions. Retrieved July 13, 2022, from https://uwaterloo.ca/chemical-engineering/news/serious-game-teaches-students-how-cap-and-trade-reduces-co2
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Games, students, CO2 emissions, climate, computer games, interactive,news
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Serious Games, Climate Change