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{{short description|Form of informative media}}
[[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 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.
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[[Educational video game|Educational video games]] have an overlap with explorable explanations<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://explorabl.es/|title=FAQ {{!}} Explorable Explanations|website=explorabl.es|access-date=2019-03-03}}</ref>. They are similar in that both involve a computer simulation that is visualized, and both have the intended goal that the audience learns something. However, in an educational video game, the simulation is not necessarily a simulation of the game's intended learning content<ref name=":3" />. Instead, learning content in educational video games is usually put in a non-interactive form such as text or voiceover; the educational game then usually has some schedule whereby the audience alternates between seeing the text and, separately, playing a game, usually a game with mechanics from a standard [[video game genre|genre]], such as a [[platformer]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cc.gatech.edu/~asb/papers/bruckman_gdc99.html|title=Can Educational Be Fun?|website=www.cc.gatech.edu|access-date=2019-03-03}}</ref>.
Explorable explanations are also distinct from [[Gamification#Education|gamification]]<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://blog.ncase.me/explorable-explanations/|title=Explorable Explanations|date=2014-09-08|website=[[Nicky Case]]'s Blog|access-date=2019-01-21}}</ref>, which has the stated intention of improving the structure of [[Reward system|rewards]] in learning. An explorable explanation may or may not involve rewards, and most involve none.
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