Mobile Game Based Learning to Develop Ethical Decision Making Skill of Novice Volunteer in Disaster Response

Abstract

Many responses of catastrophic natural disaster did not perform properly to an appropriate standard. This often occurred when first responders were involved, especially novice volunteer who did not have the accurate decisionmaking skill. One of the main issues is the lack of regular training to develop such skills. It has been pointed out that exercise of the non-technical abilities, such as decision-making has an enormous impact on effective disaster response. However, some researches show that there are difficulties to conduct live practice for the disaster situation similarly. In addition, the novice volunteer cannot receive maximum advantages from live training due to feedback limitation where reflection from actual circumstances is required to improve those skills.The purpose of this research is to design a mobile game based learning (mobile GBL) for developing such skills. First of all, we conducted a preliminary survey to assess the awareness of the ethical decision-making skill of the novice volunteer from high school and university organizations in Indonesia. We asked these respondents to answer three categories of questions encompassed six components of moral intensity. We also interviewed some experts from the official search and rescue (SAR) organization in Indonesia to confirm first responder requirements. Based on these preliminary surveys and interviews, we have designed a training system called Magni tude which enables the novice volunteer to develop their ethical decision making skill at all times during official disaster management training inside and outside of class, and expect them to improve their performance in disaster response activities.