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Simulations and the future of learning : an innovative (and perhaps revolutionary) approach to e-learning
- Author
- Aldrich, Clark, 1967-
- Title
- Simulations and the future of learning : an innovative (and perhaps revolutionary) approach to e-learning / Clark Aldrich.
- Format
- Book
- Published
- San Francisco : Pfeiffer, c2004.
- Description
- xi, 282 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- URL
- <Publisher description> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/wiley039/2003009008.html <Table of contents> http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/wiley032/2003009008.html
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Contents
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- Do you want fries with that e-learning?
- In the game
- The primary colors of content
- The e-learning arms race
- The myth of subject matter experts
- The search for content
- What would a leadership situation look like?
- Uncovering the essence of leadership
- The lure of linear content
- Rules for a post-textbook world : simulation design principles
- The beginning of open-ended content : sets and figures
- What do people do all day? : the animation system
- The ultimate hurdle : the dialogue system
- Modeling a little world : the physics system
- Modeling the inhabitants : the AI system
- A new look at work : the interface system
- The scariest word of all : gameplay
- Why use grades, anyway? : metrics, scores, and simulations
- Virtual leader vs. the world
- Seventeen simulation issues
- A manifest destiny : simulations and the training industry
- Epilogue, looking back at schools.
- Subject headings
- Education--Simulation methods. Internet in education. Instructional systems--Design.
- ISBN
- 0787969621 (alk. paper)