Designing Dynamical Learning Environments for Simulation: Micro-Worlds & Applets on the World Wide Web

Faculty of Educational Science and Technology (EDTE), University of Twente (UT)
Postbus 217; 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands.

www.RikMin.nl

Examples

Simulatie? Electrons
Simulatie? Carps
Simulatie? Molecule
Simulatie? Cardio
Simulatie? Calc

Simulation? Animation? Virtual Reality? Micro-world? Instruction? Moving pictures? Dynamical? Model-driven? Interactive? Problem solving? Discovery Learning?

	Example 1 (Electrons)	Example 2 (Carp)	Example 3 (Molecule)	Example 4 (Cardio)	Example 5 (Calc)
Interactive	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Moving pictures	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Dynamical	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Model-driven	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Applet	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Instruction	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Virtual Reality	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Animation	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Simulation	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Discovery Learning	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no
Problem solving	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no	yes / no

(pre test)

Best answers:

	Example 1 (Electrons)	Example 2 (Carp)	Example 3 (Molecule)	Example 4 (Cardio)	Example 5 (Calc)
Interactive	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
Moving pictures	yes	no	no	no	no
Dynamical	?	yes	yes	yes	?
Model-driven	no	yes	?	yes	?
Applet	?	yes	yes	yes	yes
Instruction	yes	no	no	no	no
Virtual Reality	?	?	yes	?	?
Animation	yes	?	yes	?	?
Simulation	no	yes	?	yes	?
Discovery Learning	no	yes	yes	yes	yes
Problem solving	no	yes	no	yes	no

Why (simulation in education) ?

advantages
disadvantages

abstract e-book

How (we can make simulation) ?

methods
techniques

e-book

Model-driven simulation ?

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Principle of learning

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Here you see the real life in stock market. You know the future when you understand the history. (Just as a user can learn in web-based learning environments with model-driven simulations.)

Principle of model-driven simulations:

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Principle of intelligent feedback: here video fragments:

Simulation site with CARDIO; built with JavaTHESIS and 'SimLib':

Principle of a learning environment, based on model-driven simulation is to get beter insight in a realistic dynamical phenomenon and insight between input and output, or parameters and variables, of that phenomenon.

The instructor ('Rik') (parallel)

The concept model with the interventions.               Output: 'Maurice' and his complaints

The user (the learner: a pupil, a student, a trainee, etc.)

Two demonstration versions

Maurice: version a.

Jopie: version b.

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A second example: 'TRANSISOR'

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Two more demonstration versions

Transistor: version 2002x.

Sun heater: version 2002x.

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The concept of our learning environments

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The concept of our instruction environment

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More information

== more about parallellism and the PI theory ==
== parallellism and the PI theory ==
== models ==