Category Archives: Higher Education

Marketplace Simulations Wins Silver at International Serious Play Awards

Photo of Serious Play Silver Medal Award

Marketplace Simulations has received international acclaim for its efforts to develop more conscientious, purpose-driven business leaders. The company’s Conscious Capitalism – Bikes simulation won a silver medal at the 2022 International Serious Play Awards.  In the one-of-a-kind simulation, students work in teams to build competing carbon fiber bicycle companies. Together, they manage marketing efforts, production… Read More »

Marketplace Product Updates

We at Marketplace Simulations have been working hard to roll out some major product enhancements to make your teaching experience even better! Check out what we’ve got in store for you! High Level Games We have released our two most advanced simulations in the bikes edition, and more are on the way! Find out more… Read More »

How a Brazilian Marketplace distributor is using creativity and innovation to adapt in a changing world

Dr. Claudio Manassero is the Founder and CEO of TecTrain, a Brazilian-based training company that uses tech to improve business learning. He is also a distributor of Marketplace Simulations in Brazil. Before the Covid-19 crisis, Claudio had started a new venture integrating Marketplace’s “Introduction to Marketing” simulation into a fully, stand-alone, online business class. It was… Read More »

Five Quick Tips for Amping Up Online Student Engagement with Marketplace Simulations

“Tell me and I will forget, show me and I may remember; involve me and I will understand.”  -Benjamin Franklin One of the most important, but difficult, aspects of teaching is finding ways to truly engage students in the learning experience. This challenge can be even harder to tackle in an online classroom, where your students’ attention… Read More »

New to Marketplace: January 2020

We’re happy to welcome these new universities and institutions to the Marketplace Community. British Columbia Institute of Technology eserp Muhlenberg College Florida Institute of Technology Southwest University ZSCKR w Chrobrzu UNIVERSIDAD INTERNACIONAL SEK Midwestern State University Brainforce Andrews University Ohio State University Our Lady of the Lake University George Fox University University of Houston –… Read More »

New to Marketplace: November 2019

We’re happy to welcome these new universities and institutions to the Marketplace Community. Geneva School of Business Administration The University of Rhode Island University of Dallas Concordia of Chicago Saint Joseph’s University CI Management & Consulting LLC University of Pavia Anglo American University University of New York in Prague Colorado Christian University Universidad Pontificia Comillas… Read More »

Marketplace Around the World: UASLP Competition

Marketplace Simulations is proud to feature another distinguished partnership with the Mexican business education community. Hosted by the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosí School of Economics (UASLP) though their Financial and Stock Market Laboratory, over 80 teams and 300 participants are competing in a two-month-long business competition used Marketplace’s Introduction to Business and Strategy… Read More »

The Ultimate Guide to Active Learning in the College Classroom: Part 6 – 6 Steps to a Semester of Flipped Classes

Most flipped courses in a university setting organize themselves around a single project, like an inter-class business competition or a long-term science experiment. For the course to work, students need to be able to apply what they’ve learned after just a few weeks of lectures. You can create a non-project course where all or most… Read More »

The Ultimate Guide to Active Learning in the College Classroom: Part 5 – How to Flip Your Classroom for a Day

You’ve tried integrating a few active learning exercises into your lectures and you know what works. Taking the next step and flipping your classroom for a day isn’t that complicated. Simply designating a day in your syllabus for an in-class competition or a field trip can bring an element of experiential learning to your course.… Read More »