Marilyn Hamilton's Blog: Simulations, Simulation Games and Educational Games

Marilyn Hamilton's Blog: Simulations, Simulation Games and Educational Games

A simulation is used to present a real life situtation in an attempt to sovle a real problem. This can be done to save money or to dulicate the exact data to various envirnments.
Simulation games allow play at a real life situtation.
Educational games use a simlulation to train and expose people to equipment that may be to costly to use or to procedures that can be duplicated where the error would not cost someone their life or the life of an animal. They are also use to reenforce the basic knowledge that is need for all higher learning . It can shuffle the deck to insure that tasks are mastered and not presented in a predictiable manner.
The best thing would be to create a situation that would resmble the actual events .

Marilyn Hamilton's Blog: Simulations, Simulation Games and Educational Games

Marilyn Hamilton's Blog: Simulations, Simulation Games and Educational Games

A simulation is an imitation of a real function or application designed for educational or entertainment purposes. There are two types of simulations physical which allows the user to manipulate things, and interactive which shows things in user time and can be speeded up or slowed down.

A game simulation is an interactive program that is designed for entertainment and experiential purposes.