Elearning post interviews Clark Aldrich, a leading voice in the use of simulations in education. The main message: simulations are not cheap. "Virtual Leader consumed about 15 man-years (MYs) of resources," he reports. "The team had a core of five people (10 my's), ranging from people who built the entire 3D graphics and game engine from scratch to people who took all of my AI metacoding and making it real. These were hard-core game programmers." He continues, "Most people tell me, essentially ... How can we cheaply build a lot of simulations? That thinking will kill simulations as an approach, and if there is a backlash against simulations in the next year, it is because a lot of people cheaply made simulations."
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