{"id":299,"date":"2011-11-03T17:23:48","date_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/?p=299"},"modified":"2011-11-03T17:24:05","modified_gmt":"2011-11-03T21:24:05","slug":"karl-kapp-nice-resources-for-simulations-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/karl-kapp-nice-resources-for-simulations-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Kapp &#8212; Nice Resources for Games, Learning, and Simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through my usual sources for interesting information about simulations, and came across Karl Kapp&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.karlkapp.com\/\">website<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplaneduneering.com\/kappnotes\/\">blog<\/a>. \u00a0Karl is a business consultant and professor at Bloomsburg University who writes about games, simulations, and learning, or as he describes it, he &#8220;consult[s] with businesses on topics related to the convergence of learning, manufacturing, and e-technology&#8221;. \u00a0In a world where people like to throw around claims like the superiority of simulations, 3D immersion, etc. Karl seems concerned about substantiating them and digging deeper, kind of what I like about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.work-learning.com\">Will Thalheimer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few blog posts that really made a lot of sense to me. \u00a0I can see investigating these as I work to substantiate my own claims!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplaneduneering.com\/kappnotes\/index.php\/2010\/11\/table-key-advantages-of-serious-gamesimmersive-learning-simulations\/\">Table: Key Advantages of Serious Games\/Immersive Learning Simulations<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplaneduneering.com\/kappnotes\/index.php\/2010\/12\/some-shortcomings-around-gamesimulation-research\/\">Some Shortcomings Around Game\/Simulation Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaplaneduneering.com\/kappnotes\/index.php\/2010\/11\/research-to-practice-games-and-simulations\/\">The Role of Games and Simulations in Learning<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nice work, Karl!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going through my usual sources for interesting information about simulations, and came across Karl Kapp&#8217;s website and blog. \u00a0Karl is a business consultant and professor at Bloomsburg University who writes about games, simulations, and learning, or as he describes it, he &#8220;consult[s] with businesses on topics related to the convergence of learning, manufacturing,\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/karl-kapp-nice-resources-for-simulations-and-learning\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299\/revisions\/301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eqsim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}