Welcome to Simu-SportCentre
The student experience and graduate employability are increasingly important factors in higher education: Simu-sportcentre is an innovative teaching tool which promotes both by engaging and empowering students whilst they manage a simulated public sports facility. Developed over a number of years at Sheffield Hallam University, we are now making available this unique sport management simulation to interested universities to offer as part of their courses.
Simu-sportcentre is a web-based interactive management simulation which develops students' objective-setting, decision-making and analytical skills in the context of sport facility management.
Students make decisions on operational aspects such as opening hours, programming of activities, pricing and spending on maintenance, marketing and cleaning.
Management information reports (including results on visitor numbers and income and expenditure) are generated based on students' decisions. Students evaluate this management information to measure the performance of the facility and alter and update decisions to attempt to improve performance in further rounds of the simulation.
As well as being fun and stimulating, Simu-sportcentre offers an engaging way of learning which develops learner autonomy and promotes metacognitive processes.
The simulation is appropriate for use at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, and has potential application for any courses that involve management decision-making.
For more information, and to see Simu-sportcentre in action, you can watch the screencast demonstrations on this webpage.
To try Simu-sportcentre for yourself, simply request a Trial. We can then provide you and two colleagues with trial access for you to see the benefits of using this simulation with your students.
Simu-sportcentre is available on an annual licence at £300 per annum per institution. The £300 licence fee includes:
- unlimited access to the simulation (no cap on student numbers)
- supporting documentation and teaching materials including:
- A User Manual
- A detailed background case study for Simu-sportcentre
- Instructor's Manual and teaching notes
- Purpose-written booklet written by Professor Peter Taylor, Emeritus Professor of Sport Economics at Sheffield Hallam University which introduces students to key concepts relating to learning they will experience through the simulation - setting objectives; understanding costs; pricing; programming for sports facilities; performance measurement and management
- Powerpoint slides introducing students to concepts to help them assess their results
- Seminar and simulation debrief materials including templates and automated spreadsheets for analysing results
- Model assessment packages