Digital simulations for improving education learning through artificial teaching environments /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Gibson, David, Ed. D., Baek, Youngkyun.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2009.
• Subjects: Simulated environment (Teaching method); Simulation games in education.; Computer games.; Alternate reality games as simulations; Case studies in teaching and learning; Cognitive apprenticeship inspired simulations; Combining instructional design and game design; Computers and the end of progressive education; Design principles for embedded formative assessments; Designing commercial simulations for teachers; Digital games to develop ethical teachers; Digital simulation in teaching and learning; Game design and development; Hybrid 2D/3D development of interactive simulations; Learning by doing via game making; Modeling classroom behaviors in software agents; Narrative event diagram; Simulating teaching experience with role-play; Simulation for improving teachers' motivational skills; Supporting open-ended assignments in virtual environments; Teacher problem solving using simulation; Virtual spaces for teaching and learning
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (xxv, 514 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 462-501) and index.
• ISBN: 9781605663234 (ebook); 1605663239 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Artificial instructional methods now provide the learning community with exercise-specific teaching skills and learning situations that strengthen educator instincts and intuition about best practices. This publication contains research and current trends used in digital simulations of teaching, surveying the uses of games and simulations in teacher education. An essential resource for teachers, educational technologists, and simulation developers, the book helps solve problems in teaching and learning through introduction of the potential and benefits of practice with digital simulations.