A board game architecture for soft skills development

• Main Authors: Mohd Radzi, Shanizan Herman, Teh, Yuan Ying, Zainol Abidin, Mohd Zukuwwan, Ahmad, Puteri Azwa, Zainol, Asif Zamri
• Format: Article
• Published: UiTM Perlis 2017
• Subjects: QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
• Online Access: http://repo.uum.edu.my/26417/; https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327117684_A_board_game_architecture_for_soft_skills_development
• Institution: Universiti Utara Malaysia

This paper aims to introduce the board game architecture of 5-ST☆R: The Hotel Management Game for soft skills training as well as learning hotel management concepts for higher education. Soft skills are necessary to ensure the competency of graduates especially when they are applying for employment. Softs skills also play a major role during social interaction in the society as well as maintaining a successful career. A collaborative board game has been developed in order to enable student to polish their soft skills in a non-threatening environment. The board game architecture includes activities and processes that occur in a normal hotel operation which permit players negotiate among themselves as to solve problems and capture certain opportunities. The board game architecture also guides the development of the board game while enforcing the element of learning by doing towards the implementation of game-based learning. Therefore the implementation of hands-on training can be done using a tangible problem space in an entertaining exercise.