WG5 Seminar
Enriching Heritage Management Students’ Cross-Cultural and Multilingual Communication: The Serious Play Approach Utilizing Lego as Serious Play Figures in terms of Tabletop Games in Higher Education
Eleni Meletiadou

During the webinar hosted by WG5, scheduled for Friday, May 16, 2025, from 18:00 CET, Eleni Meletiadou will present a talk titled:

Enriching Heritage Management Students’ Cross-Cultural and Multilingual Communication: The Serious Play Approach Utilizing Lego as Serious Play Figures in terms of Tabletop Games in Higher Education

Abstract: In the past few decades, there has been a shift from traditional passive face-to-face educational practices to the adoption of active learning methods, technology-enhanced learning, digital storytelling, digital serious games, and escape rooms, and in general, approaches that focus on experiential, peer, digital, game-based learning. Although the literature suggests that these teaching and assessment strategies can deeply impact the learning experience, Lego as a Serious Play used as a heritage tabletop game is an innovative technique, and relatively few studies investigate the advantages and disadvantages it may bring to the classroom for university students. This presentation will describe an implementation in a heritage management course in Higher Education (HE) by presenting the use of this approach with 32 students.