Playing in the garden of forking paths – leadership learning in a community through collaborative interactive storytelling

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I demonstrate the pedagogical affordances for playful and collaborative learning using a free, browser-based story-telling tool that enables learners and educators to write, visualize, organize, and share non-linear, branching narratives. The outcomes of the text-based story games change depending on choices made by readers who effectively co-create the narrative.

In teams, participants in this session will choose leadership stories created by postgraduate management students, explore multiple plot-lines of leading and following, and experience the consequences of their decisions. Then, through designing their own interactive stories participants will discover benefits and challenges of using collaborative interactive fiction applicable to their practice.

Author(s):

Sandra Romenska    
University of St Andrews
United Kingdom