A didactic approach to the stock exchange contracting throught a role-playing game in Google-docs

Abstract

An experience that is being designed for the subject of Financial System that consists of designing a role playing game o RPG (a simulation game) as a learning resource and managing it through Google-Docs, with the aim that the student be able to understand the basic functioning of trading negotiation on a Stock Market, is described in this paper. The object of this RPG is to: design a game system that establishes the rules of negotiation and identify the random factors that can positively or negatively affect shareholder value, form a group of students to assume the role of Stock Exchange Governing Society and several groups that assume the role of dealers in order to maximize the value of their portfolios; and carry out the negotiation in the established times. We propose a role-playing game developed as a MUD using Google-Doc. Google-Doc has been chosen because it allows, through a document, to accede the gaming system and that any participant in the game can cooperate to expand the list of concepts and refine the definitions (wiki style), and through a spreadsheet can design a simple electronic contracting system.