Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Welcome to the SimSEs Instructors Manual. As an instructor, there are a few important things
that you should know before using SimSE in your course. The purpose of this manual is to
provide you with this information. If you have any information you think should be added to this
manual, please let us know by visiting the SimSE Website and giving us your feedback.
which they are given printed manuals and in which the TA (who has studied the manual and
played SimSE themselves) walks the students through the information contained in the manual
and goes through example scenarios with them.
5. Observer Presence
Our experience has also suggested that an observer presence can have a positive effect on
learning in SimSE. Although we have not tried this ourselves in classroom settings (only in
controlled experiment settings), some suggested ways to try this are having students play SimSE
in pairs, or having them play SimSE in a lab setting while observed by an instructor or TA.