Towards a framework for educational simulation in management science and economics

Educational simulation is concerned with the use of all suitable forms of simulation, including simulation games, in education. Focusing on management science and economics, we analyze a choice of simulation models for identifying opportunities how to turn them into educational simulations. As a result of our analysis, we propose a framework for classifying and building different types of educational simulations. We argue that in the social sciences, it is natural to use multi-agent simulation, such that simulation games can be considered as participatory simulations in the sense of (Wagner 2013).