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Virtual Decisions: Digital Simulations for Teaching Reasoning in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Contributor(s): Cohen, Steve (Editor), Portney, Kent E (Editor), Rehberger, Dean (Editor)

ISBN: 9780805849943

Publisher: Routledge

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Pub Date: November 30, 2005

Dewey: 300.71

LCCN: 2004060682

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 8.98" L x 6.40" W ( 1.27 lbs) 306 pages

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Focuses on the special issues related to the use of digital technologies in teaching the complex nature of social decisions with particular attention to the use of digital role-play simulations as a means to accomplish this.

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"[This is] an important book in the field.It is a pioneering work [that] strikes a good balance between addressing the theoretical underpinnings of simulations designed to teach decision-making and more practical information such as examples showing what they are and what they can do."
--Ronald E. Anderson
University of Minnesota

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