Experiences with a Socio-Environmental Modeling Course

Autor: Pedro Ribeiro Andrade, Gilberto Camara, Raian V. Maretto, Antonio Miguel V. Monteiro, Tiago G. S. Carneiro, Flavia F. Feitosa
Jazyk: English<br />Spanish; Castilian<br />Portuguese
Rok vydání: 2015
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Zdroj: Modelling in Science Education and Learning, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 71-92 (2015)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1988-3145
DOI: 10.4995/msel.2015.2811
Popis: In a social-environmental modeling course, students need to learn complementary skills that include the conceptualisation of a model, different modeling paradigms, computer pro- gramming, and the process of rigorously converting ideas and data into a computational program using a given toolkit. Such topics need to be taught in parallel in order to keep a heterogeneous audience motivated. Based on the experience with multidisciplinary au- diences, this paper describes a socio-environmental modeling course that explores three modeling paradigms: System dynamics, Cellular automata, and Agent-based modeling. We also present a small tutorial with some examples developed for the course.
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