Short Sims A Game Changer 1st Edition by Clark Aldrich ISBN1000036359 9781000036350

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ISBN 10:      1000036359
ISBN 13: 978-1000036350
Author:      Clark Aldrich

Short Sims A Game Changer 1st  Table of contents:

1. The Short Sim: A Game Changer

• The Necessity of Interactivity
• The Barriers
• Until Now
• Yes, But What Are Short Sims?
  • Short Sim Authoring Tools
  • Quick Start Guide
  • “Low-Hanging” Learning Objectives
  • Going Beyond Early Examples
• For Whom Is This Book and What Does It Cover?

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2. Short Sim Example: Be a Hacker

• Overview
• A Walk-through (Spoiler Alert)
• Some Design Notes
  • A Single Story “Beat” Connects Beginning and End
  • The Core Mechanic
  • Restrained Design
  • Non-Directive Learning
  • Replayability
• Play a Few More Short Sims
• The Outlines of a New Design Philosophy

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3. Seven Short Sim Design Principles

• Build Competence and Conviction through Player Actions
• Quick and Easy to Engage and Replayable
• Quick to Build, Easy to Update
• Rigorous Underlying Model
• Coexist with Other Educational Content
• Collaborative Not Directive Leadership: Think Sim as Assistant
• Simple Mechanics and Open-Ended Creativity
• Short Sims are Perfect for…
  • Corporate Training Groups
  • Traditional Media Producers
  • Training Content Producers
  • Schools
  • Assessment
  • Companies Seeking Cultural Influence
  • Breaking with Academia’s Dark Ages

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4. Planning Assumptions and Expectations

• Estimating Time to Creation
• Time Sucks
• Short Sim Roles and a Sample Designer Schedule for Outsourcers
• Example of Ranges in Time Frames
• Other Planning Best Practices
• Sometimes, a Leap

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5. Identify the Audience and Broad Topic Parameters

• A Broader Audience
• The Tolerance for Ambiguity
• Use Beyond the Original Goal
• Narrow the Topic
• Competence and Conviction

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6. Research, Including Subject Matter Expert Interviews

• Do Outside Research
• Interview the Subject Matter Experts
• On Experts’ Use of Visual Metaphors

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7. Blocking Out a Simple Short Sim

• A Review of Basic Sim Authoring
• First, Create Notes
• Storyboarding
• Levels
• Calibrating the Flow
• Refine and Add Interactivity
• (At Some Point) Create an Introduction
• Wrap Up

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8. Getting Feedback

• Feedback During the Initial Design
• Set Up Temporary Links
• The Best Tool: In-Sim Commenting Tools
• A Marked-Up Word Document
• Directions for Commenters
• Play Through with the Clients
• During the Pilot Stage
  • For Playtesters during the Pilot Stage
  • For SMEs and Sponsors of Complex Sims during the Pilot Stage
• Feedback After Launch
• Embracing Mistakes

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9. Types of Short Sims

• Inculcate a New Way of Thinking
• Teach Predictable Processes
• Present Labs
• Show Complex Processes
• Allow Exploration of Interesting Systems
• Present Complex Role Plays

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10. Coaches, Settings, and the Value of Efficiency

• Often, a Coach
• Creating Situations and Characters
• Consider Bare Stories
• Also Keep All Names Descriptive and Back-Stories Lean
• Consider Strong Characters
• A Commitment to Efficiency
  • Minimize the Creation of Customized Media
  • Use Alternative Text Characters (Judiciously) to Add Emphasis
  • Use as Few Words as Possible
  • Efficient Structures
  • Useful Across All Types

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11. Examples of Inculcating New Ways of Thinking

• Creating a New Starting Point
• Storyboard (Spoilers)
• Techniques of Note
• Example: Combining New Way of Thinking and Predictable Process

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12. On Levels

• The Zen of Level 1
• Using Bottlenecks (i.e., What Happens in Level 3, Stays in Level 3)
• Create a Few Traps
• A Learning Curve
• Make Sure Players Know, When They Failed, Why. Exactly
• Decisions Should Have Stakes
• Be Cautious When Presenting “Wrong Answers” Not to Reinforce a Mistake
• Balancing Lecture and Lab: On the Philosophy of Right Seat and Left Seat
• Be Player-Centric
• Keep the Player Active by Breaking Up Long Passages
• Don’t Break the Player’s Flow

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13. Case Study: Creating a Short Sim Lab on Demand Curves

• Introduction
• Understand the Topic and the Objectives for the Short Sim
• Create a Visual and Intuitive Microcosm
• A Few Actions and a Simple Interface
• Level One: The Introduction to the Lab
• Introduce Interactivity
• Consistency
• Level Two: The Core Lab
• On Tone and an Ideal Way to Learn
• On Using PowerPoint and Borrowing from Comic Strips
• Conclusion

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14. Short Sim Example: Carpool (And Techniques to Align Behaviors in a Sim to Real-World Behaviors)

• Overview
• The Challenges and the Needs to Line Up with the Real World
  • Big Decisions Hidden Among Small Decisions
  • Unforced Decisions
  • Consider Visual Decision-Making to Obscure the Right Answer
  • Interrupting Short-Term Success
  • Consider Generic Descriptions to Obscure the Right Answer
  • Being Influenced by Others
• Never Force the Player to Be Immoral or to Make a Mistake They Would Not Make in the Productive World
• On Conviction Building

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15. Introduction to Advanced Universal Techniques

• Storyboarding and the Language of Cinema
• Levels That Can Be Accessed in Any Order
• Easter Eggs

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16. Example: Learning Curves with Complex Topics

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17. Role-Plays, from Simple to Complex

• To this One-On-One Framework, We Can Easily Make Additions
• With Multiple Characters
• Pushing Further: A Case Study
• Define Success and Failure
• Story Beats
• The Theory of the Case
• Rigorous Design

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18. Example: Openish-Ended Labs Around Supply and Demand

• A Wide Range

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19. Examples of Sandboxes and Other Exploration of Interesting Systems

• Example One: Two-Sided Markets
• Example Two: The Distribution Sim
• Example Three: The Four P’s of Marketing
• Background History: My Personal Journey to Short Sims
• On Rigor

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20. Endings

• What Happens Next
• Explicit Lessons Learned
• Scores and Stars
• And a Chance to Try Again
• Not All Failures Should Require Restarting the Entire Sim
• A Good Taste

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21. Assessments and Measuring Learning and Engagement

• Assessment Short Sims
• How Assessment Short Sims Are Similar to Educational Short Sims
  • Learning/Assessment Objectives
  • Research
  • Situation
  • Stories and Levels
  • Decisions
• How Assessment Short Sims Are Different than Educational Short Sims
  • Planning Questions
  • Scoring Mechanism
  • Lack of Feedback/Lack of Ability to Start Over or Replay Segment
• Rolling with Punches
• The Introduction
• Assessments Are a Perfect Use of Short Sims
• Measuring Learning and Learner Engagement
• Learners’ Performance
• Measuring Moments of Truth
• Measuring Habits
• Factor in Confidence and Conviction Levels
• Factor in Demographic Information
• Factor in Real-World Data
• Engagement
• Other Uses of Tracking Beyond Traditional Assessment
  • TADA (Teaching and Data Acquisition)
  • Culture Dashboard
  • Uncovering Biases
  • Retries as a Surrogate Metric for Fun
  • And More
• Organizations That Care About Metrics Will Prefer Short Sims

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22. Case Study: Creating a Simple Business Simulator

• Introduction
• A Growing Restaurant Chain, with a Technology Tree
• Attribute Level Names
• Conclusion

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23. Conclusion

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Appendices

• Appendix 1: Text Style Guide
• Appendix 2: Examples of Learning Goals and Program Goals
• Appendix 3: Broad List of Possible Subject Matter Expert Questions
• Appendix 4: Be a Hacker Walk-Through
• Appendix 5: Short Walk-Through of Visual Problem Identification
• Appendix 6: Simple Business Simulator Walk-Through

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