The Complete Guide to Simulations and Serious Games: How the Most Valuable Content Will Be Created in the Age Beyond Gutenberg to Google

This exciting work offers designers a new way to see the world, model it, and present it through simulations. A groundbreaking resource, it includes a wealth of new tools and terms and a corresponding style guide to help understand them. The author -- a globally recognized industry guru -- covers topics such as virtual experiences, games, simulations, educational simulations, social impact games, practiceware, game-based learning/digital game based learning, immersive learning, and serious games. This book is the first of its kind to present definitions of more than 600 simulation and game terms, concepts, and constructs.

Clark Aldrich, an international consultant, workshop leader, and popular conference speaker, is an award- and patent-winning designer of educational simulations including SimuLearn's Virtual Leader global product line. He works with corporate, academic, entertainment, and military organizations, and is the author of two award-winning books, Simulations and the Future of Learning and Learning by Doing (both from Pfeiffer). He is also a columnist and analyst in the overlap of IT and HR and founder of, and former director of research for, Gartner's e-learning coverage.