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Successful decision making is a necessary and sufficient condition for effective and efficient management of any business or organization. In this chapter, we introduce the concept of “dynamic task” and explain why learning and decision making in dynamic tasks is hard, what are the key challenges to decision making and learning in dynamic tasks, and why system dynamics-based interactive learning environments (SDILEs) are an effective tool to improve people’s (In this book the words, people, users, learners, and decision makers are used interchangeably.) decision making in dynamic tasks. Why is the incorporation of debriefing into the design of an SDILE critical? Through such questions and assertions, the objective of this introductory chapter is to entice the reader for the following material in this book.
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Qudrat-Ullah, H. (2020). Decision Making and Learning in Dynamic Tasks. In: Improving Human Performance in Dynamic Tasks. SpringerBriefs in Complexity. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28166-3_1
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