Collection

Simulation-based training in professional education: Learning, participation, and instructional design

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
01 April 2024
Submission deadline
28 June 2024
The Special Issue aims to gather a collection of in-depth studies from different professional fields that “open the black box”of simulation-based training. The principal idea is that detailed analyses of simulation-in-practice are of vital importance for advancing our understanding, design, and use of simulation training in safety-critical domains. The papers invited to the Special Issue align with the overarching scope and objectives of the Instructional Science journal, promoting a more advanced understanding of the nature, theory, and practice of learning, as well as the environments conducive to learning. They also represent the interdisciplinary nature of the learning sciences. The invited papers all aim to “open up the black box” by conducting detailed and rigorous analyses of simulation-in-practice, in line with the learning sciences’ ambition to explain processes of learning and the different ways in which technologies, instructional practices, and learning environments can be designed to support learning in different contexts. The invited papers represent a variety of theoretical perspectives within the learning sciences, including constructivist, socio-cognitive, sociomaterial, and socio-cultural theories of learning. Consequently, the varying theoretical approaches also result in a diversity of methodological designs within the collection of papers. What they all have in common is that they draw on qualitative methods to provide so-called “thick descriptions” with the potential to inform both research and practice.

Editors

  • Charlott Sellberg Charlott Sellberg  &

    Charlott Sellberg

    Charlott Sellberg is an Associate Professor at the Department of Education, University of Oslo, Norway and at the Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Charlott Sellberg has a multidisciplinary background in Cognitive Science, Human-Computer Interaction and Education. Her research focuses on the use of simulations and simulators for professional learning, often with attention to instructional work in such technology- intense settings. She is also a member of the advisory board for Centre of Excellence in Maritime Simulator Training and Assessment (COAST).

  • Oskar Lindwall Oskar Lindwall

    Oskar Lindwall

    Oskar Lindwall is a Professor at the Department of Applied Information Technology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Oskar Lindwall has a disciplinary background in cognitive science, communication studies and education. His research focuses on the use of technology in higher education, video research in the learning sciences, ethnomethodology and conversation analysis. He has conducted empirical studies of critique sessions in architecture education, lab work in science education, surgical training, YouTube tutorials, and the teaching and learning of craft. He is a past president of the International Society of the Learning Sciences (ISLS).

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