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I think "informational" is better than "informative" here: it might be both, but the entire purpose of the medium is to inform (whereas "informative" is only true if it succeeds!)
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{{short description|Form of informativeinformational media}}
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[[File:Parable of the Polygons drag & drop.png|thumb|329x329px|Screenshot from ''[[Parable of the Polygons]]'' by [[Nicky Case]], an explorable explanation that simulates [[racial segregation]], which allows the audience to control how "shapist" the entities in the simulation are.]]
 
An '''explorable explanation''' (often shortened to ''explorable'') is a form of informativeinformational media where an [[interactive]] [[Simulation|computer simulation]] of a given concept is presented, along with some form of guidance (usually prose) that suggests ways that the audience can [[Learning|learn]] from the simulation. Explorable explanations encourage users to discover things about the concept for themselves, and test their expectations of its behaviour against its actual behaviour, promoting a more [[Active learning|active]] form of learning than reading or listening.
 
== Definition ==