Can SME Managers Learn from Games?

Serious Games are especially useful for training because they offer immersive and engaging environment where users 'learn by doing'. This trial and error based approach supports well learning and is able also to improve teamwork, social skills, leadership and collaboration. This article presents an ongoing project that was meant to design and develop a serious game that fosters the improvement of internationalization and language skills of SME managers. Initial results have been quite promising but there are still improvements to be made.

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