good principles on designing a real and effective simulation
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hansdezwartWe are a boutique educational simulations and serious games firm with a long track record of success. In fact, over 90% of our clients commission a second simulation from us. This is because our sims drive conviction and competence better than any other l
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- Matching actions available to the student in the sim to real life situations, with reasonably high fidelity and nuance. There is a difference between asking co-workers out on a date twice with respect versus three or four times without.
- Matching contexts to the student in the sim to real life situations. Real life financial decisions, for example, are made under the pressure of meeting stretch goals and balancing and optimizing a thriving business ecosystem, not the sterility of an ethics class.
- Matching and visualizing the invisible system in the sim to real life situations. For example, a naive employee may open an email with some special offer and respond to it. An employee who understands phishing attacks and the roles and techniques of organized cyber mobsters never would open that same email, even though the experience of receiving the email is the same as the naive employee's.
- Giving the student ample opportunity and motivation to test his or her theory in a fair and realistic environment, as well as alternative (and less naive) approaches. If a sim is good, students will first try hard to make their comfortable approach apply (using the interface) and then work. Only then, and after some frustration, are the students primed to actually develop conviction in the new models they "discover" and then practice.
- Having the experiences learned in the sim be reinforced by their real world. Sims have to capture the nuance and texture of real life, not life as the sponsors wish it were. Said another way, a sim may contain five formal levels. But levels six through infinity are the real world.
A well-designed simulation may be the only tool available to meet that goal in a scalable and measurable way. Simulations can do this through the following five properties:
- Matching actions available to the student in the sim to real life situations, with reasonably high fidelity and nuance. There is a difference between asking co-workers out on a date twice with respect versus three or four times without.
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Mark SmithersSo you want to build a simulation? Here is a framework to get you through the design process in three easy steps.
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Field Notes from the World's Simulation Go-To Guy
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paul reidOne of the trickiest interface challenges in sims is to motivate a player to wait. How can a simulation convince the player to hold off on doing something they want to do immediately? This is critical, as so many Big Skills (such as security and relationship management) require, to apply them successfully in real life, plenty of appropriate holding back.
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Sahana Chattopadhyayall about simulations and their effectiveness in andragogy...
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Natalie LaffertyBlog about games and simulation in education
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Bill BrandonThis is a truly useful compendium, in blog form, of the elements of immersive learning simulations (ILS).
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Patti ShankClark Aldrich's serious games and simulations blog
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Paul McKenzieAll about gaming and the future of education Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fclarkaldrich.blogspot.com
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also called debriefings
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A free online textbook on the new media and language of learning to do, not just learning to know
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Mark WagnerRead Clark Aldrich's latest book while it still exists in Blog Format: "How the most valuable knowledge will be constructed and engaged in the era beyond Gutenberg and Google, from a designer and analyst on corporate, academic, and military sim projects"
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Peter ShanksA Free, Online Reference to the Subversive New Media and Language of Learning to Do, not just Learning to Know
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In the emerging model of Literacy 2.0, knowledge is formatted to develop intelligent actions (learn to do), and self-awareness (learn to be), not just passive intellect (learn to know). Here is a guide to the concepts, presented in about one term a day.
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Lambert HellerIn the emerging model of Literacy 2.0, knowledge is formatted to develop intelligent actions (learn to do), and self-awareness (learn to be), not just passive intellect (learn to know). Here is a guide to the concepts, presented in about one term a day.
via:pweiland blog elearning learning games aldrich lang:en literacy literacy2.0
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kirstysat the moment (march 07) Clark is making a glossary of sorts, especially as related to instructional games.
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Public Stiky Notes
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