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NetLogo

This resource is available via the LJMU App Player. NetLogo is a programmable modelling environment used by many tens of thousands of students and researchers worldwide.

 

It of interest for use in teaching due to its large repository of models, uploaded by users. These are accessible from:

 

File > Models Library

 

Users can adjust parameters to see the effect that this has on the modelled behaviour and this might form the basis for a workshop activity. Models include:

·        (Bio)chemical processes

·        Animal aggregation behaviour

·        Altruism within evolution

·        The Piaget-Vygotsky Game

·        Muscle development

 

Maintained by SCSADE@ljmu.ac.uk. Last Update: 13/12/2017.