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Cultural anthropology professor Michael Wesch came up with “World Sim” to push students to stop asking, “What’s going to be on the test?” and to contemplate bigger questions: Why are some people poor and some rich? How does the world work?

The goal, he says, is to create an environment where students can expand their capacity for empathizing with and loving those who are different from them.

Professor Wesch sets up the simulation by giving each culture a certain amount of power in the beginning – symbolized by playing cards. Then, based on a complex set of rules the class has devised together, students go through each round of the game – striking alliances, trading cards, and sometimes starting “wars” over resources.

fter my experiences in November participating in GlobalEdCon10 conference, I'm realizing that college learning isn't hitting the mark in this area, as well as it could be.  GlobalEdCon10 was a ground-breaking event for education, in my opinion  While most educators still travel to attend conferences face-to-face (and I do see value in doing so) or attends pre-organized conferences virtually in tandem with face-to-face participants, GlobalEdCon10 seems to have found the perfect recipe for collaborative, open sharing of global learning ideas.