Educating moral sensitivity in business: An experimental study to evaluate the effectiveness of a serious moral game

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Serious games have emerged as a promising new form of education and training. Even though the benefits of serious games for education are undisputed, there is still a further need for research on the efficacy of such games. The main goal of our research is to examine the effectiveness of a serious moral game—uFin: The Challenge—that was designed to promote moral sensitivity in business, a precondition of ethical decision-making and behavior and a core moral competency of moral intelligence. A second goal is to examine the role of metacognitive prompting and prosocial nudging in influencing learning effectiveness. Participants (N = 345) took part in an experimental game-based intervention study and completed a pre- and post-test questionnaire assessing moral sensitivity. The analyses of both questionnaire and game data suggest that merely playing this game is effective in promoting moral sensitivity. Neither self-reflection nor exposure to prosocial nudges, however, were determined to be factors that improve learning effectiveness. In contrast, those interventions even decreased the learning outcome in some cases. Overall, findings demonstrate the potential for game-based learning in the moral domain. An important avenue for future research is to examine others ways of increasing the effectiveness of the game.

Original languageEnglish
Article number104381
JournalComputers and Education
Volume178
Number of pages15
ISSN0360-1315
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01.03.2022
Externally publishedYes

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    Research areas

  • 21st century abilities, Adult learning, Games, Post-secondary education, Teaching/learning strategies
  • Management studies

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