Digital Simulations for Improving Education : Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments

Artificial instructional methods no provide the learning community with exercise specific teaching skills and learning situations that strengthen educator instincts and intuition about best practices. ""Digital Simulations for Improving Education: Learning Through Artificial Teaching Environments"" 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, this book helps solve problems in teaching and learning through introduction of the potential and benefits of practice with digital simulations.