Title :
Simurena — A web portal for open educational simulation
Author_Institution :
Inst. of Inf., Brandenburg Univ. of Technol., Cottbus, Germany
Abstract :
In this paper, we first discuss the question why simulation is still not widely used in education today. We identify three inhibitors and four facilitators for the use of simulation in education. In particular, we point out that educational simulations should be created and distributed as Open Educational Resources. Second, we report on the innovative Simurena Portal (Simurena 2012), which is the first simulation portal that satisfies all four requirements for facilitating the use of simulation in education.
Keywords :
educational computing; portals; Open Educational Resources; Simurena Portal; Web portal; education simulation; open educational simulation; Adaptation models; Computational modeling; Education; Games; Mathematical model; Portals; User interfaces;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference (WSC), Proceedings of the 2012 Winter
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4779-2
Electronic_ISBN :
0891-7736
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2012.6465217
