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Making Better Decisions in Healthcare, Energy Policy, and Education Sectors: Human-Facilitated ILEs in Action

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Better Decision Making in Complex, Dynamic Tasks

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With the given resources and constraints, the need to make better decisions is at the helm of today’s globalized businesses and organizations. System dynamics simulation -based solutions in general and ILEs in particular have served the education and training needs of decision-makers well in several domains and areas (e.g., health care, education , military, R&D in businesses, energy planning, supply chain management, global warming , poverty, terrorism, new product and services development, policy design, and evaluation).

…to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.—Stephen R. Covey

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Notes

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    For an excellent review on the application of system dynamic modeling and simulation-based IlEs, please see in [29, 30, 33, 53].

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    The maximum score on both the pre-task and post-task knowledge test was 20.

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    Detailed descriptions of sectors and mathematical equations of MDESRAP are provided in Qudrat-Ullah [46].

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Qudrat-Ullah, H. (2015). Making Better Decisions in Healthcare, Energy Policy, and Education Sectors: Human-Facilitated ILEs in Action. In: Better Decision Making in Complex, Dynamic Tasks. Understanding Complex Systems. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07986-8_13

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