Designing Simulations for use in Higher Education

摘要

We have developed a simulation development methodology that we feel can be broadly applied in the system dynamics field in order to help develop better products which increase the visibility of the field. The development process is by no means complete and is still a work in progress, but we feel that it has come far enough to be of general use to the field. The mathematical model is only a small part of the simulation development effort and much effort is expended not only on expected areas such as user interface development, but also faculty user interface development and testing, whether that be manual, automated, or even beta testing, usability testing and field testing.