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Title:

Interactive Web-Based Discrete-Event Simulation - A Major Contribution To Blended Learning

Authors:

Wolfgang Kühn, Michael Kordt, Roland Grah

Published in:

 

 

(2006).ECMS 2006 Proceedings edited by: W. Borutzky, A. Orsoni, R. Zobel. European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2006 

 

ISBN: 0-9553018-0-7

 

20th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Bonn, May 28-31, 2006

 

Citation format:

Kühn, W., Kordt, M., & Grah, R. (2006). Interactive Web-Based Discrete-Event Simulation - A Major Contribution To Blended Learning. ECMS 2006 Proceedings edited by: W. Borutzky, A. Orsoni, R. Zobel (pp. 297-302). European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2006-0297

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2006-0297

Abstract:

This paper presents an approach to blended learning in the area of production and technology management. The approach complements Traditional knowledge transfer with simulation-based experience learning. Linked to a web-based learning management system, users have the possibility of supplementing theory with individually paced simulation experiments, thus gaining a profound understanding of the dynamics of complex systems.

Following the outline of a blended-learning scenario at the University of Wuppertal, the paper describes a prototype implementation of a client/server simulation application that has been successfully integrated in this year’s teaching. An example of the adoption within a web-based training module sketches the numerous possibilities of individual user interaction.

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