Soft Skill Simulation Authoring Tools: A State of the Art Survey

Online simulations an efficient and effective means of delivering engaging educational experiences. Soft skill simulations, which utilize rich media, are particularly immersive. There are many advantages in using online rich media simulations such as educational effectiveness and reduction in cost. The key barrier to their mainstream adoption is the complexity involved in their designing developing and testing them (authoring). This paper focuses on a state of the art survey of existing authoring tools for online soft skill simulations and identifies and describes the key requirements needed in an authoring tool.