How Simulations of Decision-Making Affect Learning

Abstract

In this chapter we shortly introduce current perspectives in learning environment research in higher education and propose a general educational research model enabling to situate the various possible pathways in which effects of student learning in simulation-based learning environments can be investigated. In a next step, we discuss what kind of learning outcomes is important to address when focussing on the effectivity of simulation-based learning environments and which research perspectives are important to address. In a third step, we discuss how the subsequent chapters in this section can be situated in this educational research model and how they are a further illustration of the different pathways currently taken in the field.