If you want to be a nurse then you need to go to school. Many schools are using technological tools to delivery nursing education; especially in the area of nursing simulations. I came across one particularly interesting example of this just today. John Miller, a Nursing Professor, at Tacoma Community College in Washington is spearheading a nursing simulation hosted within Second Life.

I've been trying to understand better where simulation fits within the skills development process and whether simulation is the only/best option available to trainers and/or learners.... We want these people to be properly trained and that's likely to include lots of safe practice away from real hazards. Simulation seems to me to sit somewhere between the observation of expert performance and trying out those skills for yoursef on the job, however well supported.

Learn more . How does Udutu make money by giving away its software? Udutu is staffed with experts in instructional design, graphic design, animation creation, rich media production, project management, and simulation building.... We charge monthly fees to host live courses. We also will sell you your own complete server based myUdutu authoring system if you prefer to keep everything in-house. Create simulations and branching scenarios quickly and inexpensively.

skip to main | skip to sidebar Clark Aldrichs Style Guide for Serious Games and Simulations Notes from an Analyst and Simulation Designer for Hire Email Clark 24.3.07 costs for simulation The cost that organizations have to spend to access an educational simulation , either by commissioning custom simulations or licensing them "off-the-shelf, per named user.

of interactive graphics, simulations, and other materials that could give you ideas for your own projects. Simpler interactives These don’t need lots of Flash wizadry.... Simple graphics but compelling situation. Simulations Many simulations of health and disaster scenarios. Bricks or Clicks . You’re the CEO of a toy manufacturer about to launch an online sales channel. Mix of text and interactive graphics.

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Caspian Learning has produced a useful taxonomy of immersive learning simulations in their white paper Serious Games in Defence Education (Word or PDF, 4MB.... Caspian's own sims fit this category. Branching story sims Single player games, in 2D or 3D, in which the 'story' advances on the basis of the user's selections from the options available.

The most frequently visited posting on this blog was written on March 7th, 2008 on the topic of Nursing Simulation in Second Life . If you visit that old posting, you will see that the architect behind leading edge nursing simulation in Second Life is John Miller, a professor of Nursing at the Tacoma Community College of Nursing in Washington, USA. John actively writes about this topic on his blog...! John has posted to newer videos on YouTube that demonstrate how he uses Second Life to support learning at his college.

So you are thinking of creating a simulation of some sort, or perhaps a Massively Multiplayer Online Role Play Game (MMORPG) or maybe even a simple branching scenario. If you are, here is a short list of tools...if you use any other tools, feel free to leave the name and URL in the comments. SimVentive "This is a software toolset that enables designers of instructional ("serious") games to create training simulations and to define the behavior of characters and objects that populate those simulations, all without programming.

Buddies? Colleagues? Leader and followers? A challenge in discussing educational simulations is that the same person has different roles, depending on if you are looking at the context of the virtual world, the classroom, and the real world. For example, the same person can be a hero in the context of the sim, a student in the context of the class, and a project manager/steward in the context of the enterprise.... A colleague of yours (context: real world) can help you either by being a teammate (context: virtual world) or a buddy (context: classroom).