Can Learning Actually Be Fun?

Today's St. Petersburg Times carries a column by Robert Trigaux, Times Business Editor, about an MIT-inspired management simulation called The Beer Game.

Before you think that this is some kind of college chugging contest, I can assure you that the game is really all business, and based on the supply chain management book by John Sterman: Business Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World.

It should come as no surprise that MBA students flock to this simulation because it teaches and because it's fun!

Which is exactly why I ask the question... why don't we see more interesting simulations in higher education?

Must all "real" education be boring and dull?