In January of 2021, LLST Director Matthew Stevens made a presentation to the McGill Refugee Research Group on what learning games can teach us about ethical refugee response. Now, thanks to our friends at PAXsims, we can share this recording of Matthew’s presentation. Watch the video above, or on the PAXsims blog or PAXsims YouTube channel, both of which contain […]
Author: Ben Stevens
Workshop Updates, March 2021
Our workshops promoting localised, gender-aware simulation development are now fully underway, offering humanitarian workers based in Jordan the opportunity to learn the ins-and-outs of training and simulation design! Next week will mark the beginning for groups three and four, bringing the final two sets of participants on board for this project. Building and delivering this curriculum has been a rewarding […]
Digital Facilitation Tools Series: Slack
Welcome to LLST’s Digital Facilitation Tools Series. In this series we will cover a selection of digital tools, each of which can be used to help facilitate online trainings, simulations, and serious games. Every post in this series will provide an overview of one product, discuss that product’s strengths and weaknesses, examine its accessibility and ease of use, and describe […]
Digital Facilitation Tools Series: Roll20
Welcome to LLST’s Digital Facilitation Tools Series. In this series we will cover a selection of digital tools, each of which can be used to help facilitate online trainings, simulations, and serious games. Every post in this series will provide an overview of one product, discuss that product’s strengths and weaknesses, examine its accessibility and ease of use, and describe […]
Digital Facilitation Tools Series: Google Drive
Welcome to LLST’s Digital Facilitation Tools Series. In this series we will cover a selection of digital tools, each of which can be used to help facilitate online trainings, simulations, and serious games. Every post in this series will provide an overview of one product, discuss that product’s strengths and weaknesses, examine its accessibility and ease of use, and describe […]
Digital Facilitation Tools Series: Discord
Welcome to LLST’s Digital Facilitation Tools Series. In this series we will cover a selection of digital tools, each of which can be used to help facilitate online trainings, simulations, and serious games. Every post in this series will provide an overview of one product, discuss that product’s strengths and weaknesses, examine its accessibility and ease of use, and describe […]
Humanitarian Perspectives: A Needs Assessment Simulation
This January LLST had the privilege of facilitating our new simulation “Humanitarian Perspectives: A Needs Assessment Simulation” alongside Danika Bouchard and Myriam Labrie-Loiselle of Humanitarian Partners / Partenaires Humanitaires for McGill University’s Refugee Research Group. Created by Myriam, Danika, and LLST director Matthew Stevens, Humanitarian Perspectives places participants into the roles of several displaced households and humanitarian NGOs and asks […]
UPDATE: Promoting Community-Based Simulation Development Workshop
Lessons Learned Simulations and Training is pleased to announce that applications are now open for our multi-week workshops promoting community-based simulation development for the humanitarian sector in Jordan. Whether or not you took part in our participatory webinars in 2020, this program is entirely free and open to humanitarian workers and organizations based in Jordan that are interested in developing […]
Connections North 2021
Lessons Learned is excited to once again be taking part in the Connections North Conference at McGill University. This year, director Matthew Stevens will be hosting a panel on serious gaming in the humanitarian sector. He will be joined by consultant Amanda Warner, Gautham Krishnaraj of the Laval SimEx Series, and James Maltby of the Save the Children Humanitarian Leadership […]
New Year Reflections
Since joining LLST in October, I have received a crash course in the world of Games-Based Learning, Humanitarian Training Simulations, and Serious Games. It has been an incredible few months, and I am very much looking forward to all that LLST has coming up in the new year. Much of my time with LLST has revolved around our upcoming logistics […]