Games and Simulation in Science
October 13th, 2009
Last week the National Academies Committee on Learning Science held a workshop on Computer Games, Simulations, and Education. As part of the workshop, papers were commissioned from some of the influential researchers in the field and they are available here.
The first paper by Douglas Clark and team does an excellent job reviewing the “state of [...]
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Simulations and Labs: Either/or?
October 6th, 2009
A lot of research into simulated environments sets them up in a “horse race” against hands-on laboratory activities in order to show that learning outcomes with simulations are at least as good as those from hands-on labs. But is it really an either/ or proposition?
Jaakkola & Nurmi (2007) looked at the possibilities of combining simulation [...]
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