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[[File:Parable of the Polygons drag & drop.png|thumb|329x329px|Screenshot from [[Parable of the Polygons]], an explorable explanation that simulates [[racial segregation within neighbourhoods]], andwhich allows the useraudience to control how "shapist" the entities in the simulation are.]]
 
An '''explorable explanation''' (often shortened to ''explorable'') is a form of informative 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.