Adapting Interactive Learning Environments to Student Competences

Aklilu Tadesse is a Postdoctoral research fellow at University of Bergen (UiB), Department of Geography, System Dynamics Group. He has an MPhil. and a Ph.D. in System Dynamics from UiB and an MEd. in Physics from Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia. He is a recipient of an honorable mention in the Dana Meadows prize award of the 2019 International System Dynamics Conference. Broadly, Aklilu´s research focuses on instructional designs and their assessment and on model-based study of complex dynamic systems and the dissemination of insights about such systems with students, decision makers, stakeholders, and the public in general.Pål Davidsen is Professor of System Dynamics (SD) at University of Bergen (UiB),Norway. He has a Mag. Art. in Information Science. Pål has served with Professor Jay W. Forrester (MIT) as Associate Chair of the Pre-College Education Project. At UiB, he founded the System Dynamics Group and the Educational Information Science and Technology Programme and is cofounder of the European Masters Programme in SD. He served as President and as VP of Publications in the System Dynamics Society (SDS) and received the SDS Outstanding Service Award. Davidsen has published e.g. on natural resource management, public health, analysis of complex, dynamic systems, and model-based interactive learning environments.Erling Moxnes is a Professor in System Dynamics at the University of Bergen, Norway. He has a Masters degree in Control Theory from the Norwegian Institute of Technology and a PhD in System Dynamics from Dartmouth College, USA. Previously he has worked as a researcher at the Christian Michelsen Institute and as Senior Research Economist at the Institute for Research in Economics and Business Administration. He has served as President of the System Dynamics Society, has been on the board of the Millennium Institute in Washington DC, and has received the Jay W. Forrester Award. Moxnes has worked and published in a variety of fields such as system dynamics, economics, management, political science, ecology, economic psychology, drug abuse, climate change, renewable resources management, energy markets, and energy policy.

• 1. Introduction.- 2. Challenges with supporting learning in and about complex dynamic systems.- 3.Theoretical framework.- 4. Assessing the design framework.- 5. Discussion: Lessons for practice.