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A media-rich curriculum for modeling and simulation
Doore K., Vega D., Fishwick P.  SIGSIM PADS 2015 (Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGSIM Conference on Principles of Advanced Discrete Simulation, London, UK, Jun 10-12, 2015)23-34.2015.Type:Proceedings
Date Reviewed: Aug 27 2015

This paper will likely challenge how you think about teaching modeling and simulation (M&S). The focus is a new course in M&S for graduate students from programs in computer science, art and technology, and engineering. This course incorporates multimedia to encourage creativity in representation for dynamic system simulation via Max/MSP software. The authors acknowledge and are motivated by a growing diversity of application domains that can benefit from M&S and the future goal of bringing M&S to a broader range of students from multiple disciplines and with differing levels of technical preparation.

There are substantive sections on pedagogical considerations, creativity in learning, the actual course the authors implemented, and course project examples. Pedagogical considerations include course design factors and insights from computing education. Creativity is addressed in the context of art versus science. The course section focuses on visual data flow as a desired software paradigm for M&S, followed by the role of Max/MSP as a vehicle for implementation. Although helpful in providing detail, the course project examples also tend to be somewhat distracting due to the depth of detail.

The paper is well organized and well researched and includes 53 highly relevant references. It should be of much interest to anyone with a professional interest in M&S, especially with respect to its future and different ways of looking at M&S instruction. One shortcoming is the lack of a formal assessment of student learning and perceptions regarding M&S.

Reviewer:  M. G. Murphy Review #: CR143725 (1602-0165)
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