Complex skills development for today's workforce

Tristan E. Johnson; Wen Hai D. Huang

doi:10.1007/978-0-387-76898-4_15

Complex skills development for today's workforce

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Abstract

Today's workforce is presented with many challenges including the increasing level of information and technology as well as the loss of expertise. In order to be competitive and successful, organizations are looking for workers that have complex skills. Educational institutions are trying to meet these challenges, but the tradition methods are not enough to prepare learners for current challenges. This chapter presents the benefits of using games as model-centered learning environments. We present how games have the characteristics of MCLE. Even while lacking empirical evidence, games (as a type of MCLE) have the design features to support complex skills development. As such games have the ability to prepare the upcoming workers to meet the challenges found in today's workforce.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	Understanding Models for Learning and Instruction
Editors	Dirk Ifenthaler, Pablo Pirnay-Dummer, J Michael Spector
Publisher	Springer
Pages	305-325
Number of pages	21
ISBN (Print)	9780387768977
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76898-4_15
State	Published - 2008

Keywords

Complex skills development
Instructional gaming design
Mental models

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General Social Sciences
General Arts and Humanities

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