Integrating Simulation-Based Pedagogies To Enhance Learning Outcomes
Keywords:
Simulation, Pedagogies and Learning OutcomesAbstract
Scientific discovery learning is a highly self-directed and constructivistic form of learning. A computer simulation is a type of computer-based environment that is well suited for discovery learning, the main task of the learner being to infer, through experimentation. Computer simulations have become a major tool of doing science and engaging with the world, not least in an effort to predict and intervene in a future to come. The focus is on two questions: how use of computer simulations can enhance traditional education, and how computer simulations are best used in order to improve learning processes and outcomes. We report on studies that investigated computer simulations as a replacement of or enhancement to traditional instruction. The reviewed literature provides robust evidence that computer simulations can enhance student learning outcomes, especially as far as laboratory activities are concerned.
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