Description: The first authoring tool intended specifically for non-technical people to create learn-by-doing simulations (previous authoring tools required users to think in terms of programming concepts, even if they didn't exactly write code), MOPED-II began as a way to create lots of Boston Chicken scenarios and grew from there, maintaining its focus on teaching procedural tasks, a subcategory of all simulations. The MOPED-II method was to ask authors to design the learning components of each scenario--for example, the conceptual tasks a learner needed to complete, the correct action or actions at each point, alternative ways to perform an action, and the tutoring needed to help a learner in each situation--and enter those, using a simple interface, into the tool.

MOPED-II was licensed by Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and by Cognitive Arts Corp. (then Learning Sciences Corporation), which created its simulation division by hiring writers and trainers and allowing them to build procedural learn-by-doing simulations using MOPED-II.