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Facilitating Discovery Learning in Computer-Based Simulation Environments

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Automating Instructional Design: Computer-Based Development and Delivery Tools

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This chapter describes simulation environments which incorporate instructional support for learners and that also provide authors with an authoring tool giving technical and conceptual support. Advances in computer software allow modelers to build sophisticated models relatively easily. Such models can gradually be transferred to a simulation application within the same environment. Traditionally, these two processes, building the model and then developing a learning environment around the model, have been separated and implemented with different tools. The focus here is concentrated on the architecture of a unified modeling and simulations system.

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  1. Stord College of Education, University of Bergen, 5020, Bergen, Norway

    Lars Vavik

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  1. Learning and Cognition, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, 178 Pillsbury Drive S. E., Minneapolis, MN, 55455, USA

    Robert D. Tennyson

  2. College of Education, EDU208B, University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Ave., Tampa, FL, 33620, USA

    Ann E. Barron

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Vavik, L. (1995). Facilitating Discovery Learning in Computer-Based Simulation Environments. In: Tennyson, R.D., Barron, A.E. (eds) Automating Instructional Design: Computer-Based Development and Delivery Tools. NATO ASI Series, vol 140. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57821-2_16

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