Product Description
Simulations and the Future of Learning offers trainers and educators the information and perspective they need to understand, design, build, and deploy computer simulations for this generation. Looking back on his recent first-hand experience as lead designer for an advanced leadership development simulation, author Clark Aldrich has created a detailed case study of the creation and deployment of an e-learning simulation that had the development cycle of a modern co… More >>
Simulations and the Future of Learning: An Innovative Approach to e-Learning
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#1 by Anonymous on May 8, 2010 - 12:05 pm
This is one of the best visionnary book I’ve read in a long time. Very inspiring. I cannot wait to try the software either.
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by James A. Hadley on May 8, 2010 - 1:36 pm
Every person who has played a modern-day simulation game has had to wonder how that level of interaction can be used to teach and train. Simulation and the Future of Learning doesn’t just explain that it’s possible, it proves it.
Aldrich’s extensive background in e-learning products gives him a very qualified view of what needs to improve in the future of learning. The answer is simulations. Real-time, engaging and realistic simulations. He explains in detail the hurdles, headaches, and horrors of developing what has become one of the best leadership training tools on the market–Virtual Leader.
While there is little explanation of instructional theory and methods, this book is HIGHLY recommended to any organization looking to get into the educational simulation business. It provides a realistic picture of the decisions designers will face when building the next generation of learning products.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by F. Peruzzi on May 8, 2010 - 3:27 pm
Although I found the story of Aldrich’s work on Virtual Leader interesting, I didn’t need convincing on the power of simulations coming into this book. As an elearning developer, I wanted general information on the art of creating simulations. After reading the introduction, I thought that I would get this general information interspersed with examples from the development of Virtual Leader. What followed was the story Aldrich’s development experience, leaving the creation of additional simulations as an exercise for the reader. As much of the book was dedicated to leadership content that would find its way into Virtual Leader as was dedicated to information on simulations. Not what I was looking for.
Rating: 2 / 5
#4 by Katrin Becker on May 8, 2010 - 4:02 pm
This book has a great casual style that makes it accessible to anyone, yet the ideas are significant.
It’s pretty cool – he describes the process he went through to create a game to help people learn leadership skills. What I found interesting is how he came to define leadership, since he had to do it in a way that would permit ‘quantization’ and definition as a simulation. He admits that the ideas are not new, but I think his perspective is a fresh one. The way he has put them together is definitely new. The result is a visualization of leadership that plays on in your mind – great stuff.
It is also an interesting account of the process he went through when designing his simulation/game. When organized and well written, accounts of groups solving complex problems can be very illuminating, and this one certainly succeeds there too.
I’d recommend this book to anyone interested in leadership; e-Learning; and problem-solving.
Rating: 5 / 5
#5 by Anonymous on May 8, 2010 - 5:52 pm
This book strongly suggests that we are moving past the last five hundred years, where education was dominated by linear content (books, lectures, filmstrips), into a new, post-Guttenberg era.
Rating: 5 / 5