Cloud-hosted simulation-as-a-service for high school STEM education

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 58, Issue , 2015, Pages 255-273

  Caglar, Faruk ^a   Shekhar, Shashank ^a   Gokhale, Aniruddha ^a   Basu, Satabdi ^a   Rafi, Tazrian ^a   Kinnebrew, John ^a   Biswas, Gautam ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cloud; Modeling; Simulation as a service; STEM

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; CLOUDS; COMPUTER AIDED INSTRUCTION; EDUCATION COMPUTING; MODELS; SEMANTICS; STUDENTS; VEHICLE ACTUATED SIGNALS;

COLLABORATIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS; MODEL AND SIMULATION; SCIENCE , TECHNOLOGY , ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS; SIMULATION-AS-A-SERVICE; STEM; UNITED STATES OF AMERICA;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84947023667     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2015.06.006     Document Type: Article

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