VIRTUAL SIMULATIONS AS A METHOD OF TEACHING: BENEFITS AND LIMITS

摘要

The work aims to explore a new method that resulted from the development of the teaching methods in the virtual space, the virtual simulations. In the expansion of the virtual space, there was an adaptation of the teaching methods that were used in the real environment to the online communication. The learning groups have had new features, and the interaction student--teacher has changed its coordinates. In this situation, it is necessary the study of the methods developed through experience, of their benefits and limits, through comparison with the teaching methods in the real space. As it concerns the method, there will be developed two aspects for the comparison: first, the comparison to the simulations in the real environment (organized from the authors in some regular master programs) in order to underline the features of these method in the virtual space. Another direction of analysis aims to compare the virtual group with the real group; the virtual groups have certain features as it concerns the cohesion and the performance, features that may be identified in the group of students. At last, a last aspect concerns the satisfaction of the spectators and the benefits of method in the teaching plan.