The Event Troubleshooter

The Event Troubleshooter is a new innovative teaching and learning educational board game for events, tourism and hospitality students. The game was developed by Dr Giulia Rossetti and Dr Claudia Macaveiu from Oxford Brookes University, co-created in collaboration with Oxford Brookes students and industry experts.

t aligns with Brookes IDEAS framework, which is a curriculum model and design tool that represents current sector-wide best practice in inclusive learning design and Education for Sustainable Development:

• Inclusive learning
• Digital inclusion
• Employability learning
• Assessments for, as and of learning
• Sustainability mindset

The board game encourages transferable employability skills development, stimulates collaboration by using real-world scenarios, and it can be used in both Undergraduate and Postgraduate programmes. It can also be used in Pedagogical and Educational courses to understand the value of serious games as teaching and learning tools. This project is funded by the Leisure Studies Association and Oxford Brookes University. Materials, including instructions for players and educators, are freely downloadable via the links below.

Game Production and Design: The prototype was designed by Jayne Stuart from Oxford Brookes and the final graphic production is by Cassandra Harrison.