Learning how to learn in organizational context through simulated projects

In the organizational context, learning takes place in the projects. They constitute privileged organizational spaces for learning experiments and knowledge creation. At the individual, collective and organizational levels, learning occurs in the projects through action and reflective practices. This paper presents both the use and the conditions of implementation of a "real life" simulation game -a simulated project- as a way to teach Organizational Knowledge and Learning and the results of this pedagogical experiment. Through a content analysis of the reports of the students having already participated to this pedagogical experiment, this paper points out both the main benefits and the avenues for improvement of this simulated project in terms of acquisition and understanding of the mechanisms and the dynamics sustaining collective learning in an organizational context.