Flip of Fate: Innovative Experiential Learning in Negotiation Education
General description of the project
The activity uses low-cost digital tools and classroom technologies to support experiential reflection:
Brightspace LMS – for submission of post-activity reflections and peer feedback.
McGraw-Hill Connect – to align the activity with textbook theory and measure comprehension.
Randomizer apps and AI-generated scenario prompts – to create fair and varied conditions.
These tools help simulate authentic business negotiation contexts while keeping implementation simple and scalable.
Technologies
The Flip of Fate model has strengthened students’ problem-solving, communication, and adaptability skills. It bridges theory and practice by transforming abstract negotiation concepts into lived experiences.
Institutionally, it supports UTRGV’s experiential and bilingual education mission by fostering engagement through game-based learning and instructor-led role-play. Students consistently cite it as one of their most memorable learning moments in end-of-semester evaluations.
Explain project results
This project exemplifies scalable innovation: it’s adaptable across disciplines (communication, management, HR, and psychology) and replicable at minimal cost. The combination of randomness, reflection, and theory integration makes it a “best practice” in experiential business education. It promotes critical thinking, flexibility, and emotional intelligence as a key employability skills in modern management education.
Why it should be considered best practice?
This project exemplifies scalable innovation: it’s adaptable across disciplines (communication, management, HR, and psychology) and replicable at minimal cost. The combination of randomness, reflection, and theory integration makes it a “best practice” in experiential business education. It promotes critical thinking, flexibility, and emotional intelligence—key employability skills in modern management education.
Instructor adaptability and improvisation are essential to model effective negotiation behavior.
Future iterations will include bilingual components to align with UTRGV’s B3 program and expand accessibility.
Highlights of your proposed presentation
Innovation doesn’t require expensive technology, jsut creativity and structure can achieve high engagement as well.
Students perform best when uncertainty mirrors real-world complexity.
Instructor adaptability and improvisation are essential to model effective negotiation behavior.
Future iterations will include bilingual components to align with UTRGV’s B3 program and expand accessibility.
The Evaluation Committee will evaluate submitted proposals based on the following criteria. Each area will be rated on a scale from 1 to 5 (1= non-satisfactory; 5 =outstanding), for a maximum of 45 points.