GoVenture vs Marketplace Simulations

GoVenture is a series of educational games and simulations covering business, money, health, and STEAM education. Its approach uses experiential, social, and gamified learning, with skill-based and automated assessment. In Entrepreneur, learners start and operate a small business, progressing from a lemonade stand to a kiosk; the Advanced version expands the scenario to a full business. Programs are designed for youth and adults and are used in schools, homes, nonprofits, governments, and businesses. The K-12 online subscription runs in a browser on tablets, Chromebooks, Windows, Macintosh, and Linux computers, with an instructor website for student accounts and assessments. A separate K-12 perpetual license installs on Windows and Macintosh computers and works offline without student accounts. Online subscriptions do not integrate or communicate with other school systems. For K-12 online use, students can use instructor-generated usernames without sharing email, and instructors can delete their data. Fully working product trials are available. The perpetual license does not work on tablets or Chromebooks and has limited accessibility with assistive devices.

Marketplace Simulations provides web-based business education tools for undergraduate and MBA students and their educators. Its subjects include core business, marketing, societal impact, strategic management, business strategy, entrepreneurship, supply chain, MBA and EMBA capstones, and microsimulations. Students can compete with classmates or computer-controlled teams; computer play supports classes of 1,000 or more. Platform tools include an AI Coach, an AI Tactical Plan Reviewer, and an Automated Coaching Assistant. Automated grading uses cumulative balanced scorecard results, with Easy, Intermediate, and Difficult levels and manual adjustments. Simulations run on internet-connected devices without software installation. Marketplace integrates with Canvas, Moodle, Blackboard, Sakai, Brightspace, Harvard Business Publishing, and Western Governors University, and supports LTI 1.1 and LTI Advantage. The Individual Microsimulation is listed at $8, paid once, billed at $8 per student; exercises take 10–25 minutes and students can replay them. Live support hours are listed for weekdays and weekends, with 24-hour emergency support for registered instructors.