The Simulation Education Homepage

Abstract

Both novice and experienced educators across dif ferent disciplines have expressed the need for a tool to help orient them to teach computer simula tion. This paper presents the Simulation Educa tion Homepage (http://www.acs.ilstu.edu/faculty/ dldoss/yurcik/nsfteachsim/indexnew.html) which was initiated as a result of an US National Sci ence Foundation sponsored Simulation Education Workshop held in August 1998 in Washington D.C. With input from leading simulation educa tors, web-based simulation education resources have been linked and cross-referenced in this one "virtual " location which serves as a meeting place for discussion about teaching simulation. After introducing the different categories of resources (software/courses/textbooks/people/etc.), data about categorization and use of the resources is presented. We found clear trends within categories and common characteristics between requests for information and recommendations for new links from all over the world. We also include discus sion of a future project to enhance the interactivity of this website using XML integrated with database processing.

Keywords

Simulation tools instruction cur ricula education methodologies

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