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Your objectives.
Learning through experience.

Choose a pre-developed simulation, or work with an experiential instructional designer to create an experience shaped around your syllabus, curriculum expectations, and students.

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Designed from your learning objectives

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Start with the courseSyllabus · objectives · student needs
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Create meaningful decisionsScenarios · roles · realistic tradeoffs
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Make learning visibleDeliverables · reflection · assessment

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An experience that fits your teaching.

01 / PRE-DEVELOPED SIMULATIONS

Start with an existing experience.

Explore Verdant’s simulations and choose a scenario that supports your course. Consider the subject, level of challenge, student activities, and how the experience fits your teaching schedule.

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02 / CUSTOM INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Build around your syllabus.

Partner with an experiential instructional designer to develop a simulation specifically for your course. We work from your learning objectives, curriculum expectations, instructional priorities, and the needs of your students.

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A closer look · Organizational change management

One Mission,
Two Teams.

Two nonprofits. One merger. Students take the role of integration lead for Harbor House and Northstar Outreach, bringing the organizations together without losing the people, community trust, or services that make them work.

This advanced, multiweek simulation connects change-management concepts to decisions about communication, roles, readiness, and service continuity.

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The central learning objective

Develop and justify an evidence-informed change approach that integrates two organizations while balancing stakeholder needs, staff capacity, and continuity of service.

Students practice

  • Diagnosing individual barriers to change with ADKAR.
  • Choosing communication and engagement actions for different stakeholders.
  • Planning role transitions, handoffs, rehearsals, and follow-up.
  • Using evidence to explain tradeoffs and revise recommendations.

From objective to evidence

More than making a choice.

One Mission, Two Teams illustrates how a simulation can connect a learning objective to an applied activity and evidence instructors can review.

Learning objectiveApplied practiceEvidence of learning
Analyze stakeholder needsExplore staff and partner perspectives before selecting engagement actions.Stakeholder analysis and a rationale grounded in the scenario.
Apply change-management conceptsUse ADKAR to distinguish awareness, desire, knowledge, ability, and reinforcement needs.Diagnosis and a justified intervention, rather than a one-size-fits-all response.
Plan implementation responsiblyBalance the merger timeline with capacity, role clarity, and service handoffs.Phase-based plans and portfolio deliverables.
Evaluate and adaptReview consequences, identify gaps, and choose follow-up actions.Evidence-based reflection and revised recommendations.

This alignment describes the learning opportunities in the scenario. Assessment criteria and expectations should be matched to your course; instructors review the quality of student reasoning and submissions.

Designed with you

Bring the syllabus. We’ll build from there.

For your instructional goals

Define the concepts students need to apply, the decisions they should practice, and the evidence you need to assess. Shape the scenario, pacing, deliverables, and debrief around those goals.

For your students

Consider prior knowledge, course level, individual or team participation, available time, and accessibility needs. Build an experience with the right context, support, and challenge.

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