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Direct linkPhilip Hallinger; Köksal Banoglu; Sedat Gümüs – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2025
This scoping review examined 41 peer-reviewed articles on digital simulations and serious games used in educating school leaders. Content analysis documented the wide range of theories and topics incorporated into existing educational leadership simulations, e.g. instructional leadership, change management, problem-solving, coaching, and ethical…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Educational Games, Instructional Leadership, Educational Research
Fischer, Frank; Bauer, Elisabeth; Seidel, Tina; Schmidmaier, Ralf; Radkowitsch, Anika; Neuhaus, Birgit J.; Hofer, Sarah I.; Sommerhoff, Daniel; Ufer, Stefan; Kuhn, Jochen; Küchemann, Stefan; Sailer, Michael; Koenen, Jenna; Gartmeier, Martin; Berberat, Pascal; Frenzel, Anne; Heitzmann, Nicole; Holzberger, Doris; Pfeffer, Jürgen; Lewalter, Doris; Niklas, Frank; Schmidt-Hertha, Bernhard; Gollwitzer, Mario; Vorholzer, Andreas; Chernikova, Olga; Schons, Christian; Pickal, Amadeus J.; Bannert, Maria; Michaeli, Tilman; Stadler, Matthias; Fischer, Martin R. – Information and Learning Sciences, 2022
Purpose: To advance the learning of professional practices in teacher education and medical education, this conceptual paper aims to introduce the idea of representational scaffolding for digital simulations in higher education. Design/methodology/approach: This study outlines the ideas of core practices in two important fields of higher…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Teaching Methods, Computer Simulation, Higher Education
Download full textBravender, Marlena; Staub, Nancy – Education Leadership Review, 2018
Leading American schools is a multi-faceted and complex role as states have adopted requirements for the mentoring of new principals. Interactive problem-based simulations can offer novice principals opportunities to practice solving job-embedded issues. This study explored practicing administrators interacting with simulations embedded into an…
Descriptors: Beginning Principals, Mentors, Instructional Leadership, Professional Development
Shapira-Lishchinsky, Orly – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2015
The purpose of this study was to reflect the leadership strategies that may arise using a constructivist approach based on organizational learning. This approach involved the use of simulations that focused on ethical tensions in school principals' daily experiences, and the development of codes of ethical conduct to reduce these tensions. The…
Descriptors: Instructional Leadership, Leadership Styles, Educational Strategies, Simulation
Rosen, Yigel, Ed.; Ferrara, Steve, Ed.; Mosharraf, Maryam, Ed. – IGI Global, 2016
Education is expanding to include a stronger focus on the practical application of classroom lessons in an effort to prepare the next generation of scholars for a changing world economy centered on collaborative and problem-solving skills for the digital age. "The Handbook of Research on Technology Tools for Real-World Skill Development"…
Descriptors: Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education, Problem Solving, Skill Development
Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Seepersaud, Deborah, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2020
For the forty-third time, the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented online during the annual AECT Convention. Volume 1 contains 37 papers dealing primarily with research and development topics. Papers dealing with the…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Professional Development, Feminism
Liljedahl, Peter, Ed.; Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2012
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2011 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John's, Newfoundland. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Conference Papers, Mathematics Education, Team Teaching
Squire, Kurt D. – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2008
Interactive digital media, or video games, are a powerful new medium. They offer immersive experiences in which players solve problems. Players learn more than just facts--ways of seeing and understanding problems so that they "become" different kinds of people. "Serious games" coming from business strategy, advergaming, and entertainment gaming…
Descriptors: Video Games, Models, Educational Change, Interactive Video
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2015
We are delighted to welcome you to the International Conference on Education and New Developments 2015-END 2015, taking place in Porto, Portugal, from 27 to 29 of June. Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the human being, in the way one thinks, feels and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Development, Educational Change, Educational Trends
McNergney, Robert; Hinson, Stephanie – Educational Communication and Technology, 1985
Describes Teacher Development Decision Exercises, a computer-based method of diagnosing abilities of elementary and secondary school supervisors (principals, staff developers, curriculum coordinators) to make professional preactive or planning decisions. This approval simulates assessment of supervisors' abilities to use professional knowledge to…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Decision Making, Design, Elementary Secondary Education
Powell, J. P. – Journal of Tertiary Educational Administration, 1982
Current training programs generally address technical skills needed for department administration, but generally do not treat interpersonal problem-solving skills. A method found effective is the use of trigger films and discussion. Simulated but realistic situations are presented that represent common staff problems and managerial tasks. (MSE)
Descriptors: Department Heads, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Instructional Films, Interpersonal Competence
Peer reviewedMinton, Anne – NASSP Bulletin, 1986
An assistant principal from Alabama describes her application of one of the skill dimensions derived from the Springfield Simulation--problem analysis--to a low-achievement problem among her fifth graders. Before she was through, she had exercised all the other skill dimensions as well: judgment, sensitivity, leadership, decisiveness, and…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Administrator Education, Administrator Evaluation, Administrator Qualifications
National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2008
As part of the usual end of year meeting that has been a feature of the National Center for Engineering and Technology Education (NCETE) project, a conference intending to provide a forum for young voices in an outside of the Center was organized. The basic model for the gathering was borrowed from track and field. This was to be an intellectual…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Educational Technology, Program Effectiveness, Self Efficacy
