Nordiskt nätverk för simulator-baserad träning och profesionellt lärande (SimPro)

For professional education, it is necessary to bridge theory and practice through active student involvement. The use of simulations in training are promising in this respect.

Technological advancement in recent years have expanded the opportunities to train in a realistic and risk-free environment before entering a workplace where mistakes can be the difference between life and death.

To successfully adopt such methods, we need an in-depth understanding of the relationships between professional contexts and simulation used in education.

The research project PROSIM gathers researchers from universities in Sweden and Norway to study the use of simulations across different professional domains. Our aim is to develop knowledge and further understanding of the use of simulations for professional learning.

In particular, our interest is to explore the relationship between simulations and the social, emotional and cognitive dimensions for professional practice through ethnographic research methods.

The proposed Nordic network SimPro is led by University of Gothenburg and expands on the PROSIM project by inviting new partners to participate in forums for learning across domains, as well as between academia and the practice fields.

Thus, the ambition of the network is to stimulate cross-disciplinary learning of best practices and a shared system of concepts in relation to the use of simulations in professional education.