The Significance of Using Business Simulations in Training of Bachelors and Masters

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to introduce business simulations or games for up-leveling vocational education of undergraduate and graduate students. The urgency of a business simulation, as an active form for enhancing pedagogical competence, is, namely, in the fact that it allows a participant to uncover his/her identity, to learn how to take a proactive stand, to test his/her own professional aptitude, and to upgrade his/her own expertise. A business simulation is aimed at the development of professionally significant aspects of a personality. The attempts to use business simulations resulted in enhancing the independent cognitive activity and form the professional competence of students, provided that: Business simulations reflect the essence of their future profession.They practice skills in the conditions that are most closely approximate the reality.The contents of the business simulations are aimed at forming professional competencies of future masters and mastering of pedagogical skills by them. The use of business simulations in the educational process of a technical higher educational institution contributes to upgrading vocational education of undergraduate and graduate students.