A participative method of teaching and learning in which learners play roles in order to experience affectively as well as cognitively. A useful method in professional education; it is similar to but different from simulation. See also educational...

In roleplaying, participants adopt and act out the role of characters, or parts, that may have personalities, motivations, and backgrounds different from their own. Roleplaying, also known as RP to some, is like being in an improvisational drama or...