ABSTRACT
Educators have been designing, using, evaluating, and writing about simulations for more than 40 years. However, there are no generally accepted definitions of an education simulation or its many variations. As we use the term, education simulations are sequential decision-making classroom events in which students fulfill assigned roles to manage discipline-specific tasks within an environment that models reality according to guidelines provided by the instructor. Throughout this book we offer other authors’ descriptions of simulations, enabling you to form your own idea of what a simulation is and whether it will help you to teach your students in any of the ways we discussed in chapter 1.
