Tabla de Contenidos: “…-- Sims: the new media of "learning to do," not just "learning to know" -- Immersive learning simulation: because you can't learn to ride a bicycle from a book -- Computer games -- Traditional education -- Part two: simulation elements--actions and results: framing the missing essence of research and analysis -- Basic actions -- Middle skills: design patterns for more complicated actions -- Desired results -- Part three: simulation elements of systems: connecting actions and results -- Maps: the context for life -- Units: how CEOs, presidents, and hostile aliens view life on earth -- Artificial intelligence player-agent: more patient than real people -- State-based systems and models: a shortcut to simulations -- Pure mathematical system: the real stuff -- Work process -- Big skills: the most important twenty-first-century skills -- Part four: building interactive environments -- Linear content -- Game elements: a spoonful of sugar if you can avoid hypoglycemic shock -- Pedagogical elements: learn faster and better -- Tasks and levels -- Display -- Community -- Basic inputs -- Part five: formal learning program -- Learning goals: learning to be, learning to do, learning to know -- Program goals -- Target audiences and corresponding learning and program goals -- When to use sims: meeting both learning and program goals -- Educational simulation creation and milestones part 1: an overview of key steps -- Educational simulation creation and milestones part 2: calibrating skill cones and designing the different layers of feedback -- The necessary student experience of frustration and resolution -- Evaluations strategies and the analysis of learning -- Conclusion: banishing today's classrooms, curricula, term papers, training programs, business plans, and linear analysis to the intellectual slums and backwaters to which they so richly belong -- Appendix: simulation case studies: do sims work better than traditional instruction?…”