Dear Tset,
Very interesting your development. I have some comments about the two categories of simulation you described above.
The "Teach about something" seems to be apower tool to allow trainee to repeat the course as long as possible until he fixes all ideas. This can be helpfully for students who have problems of understanding theorytically.
The "Teach how you can do something" looks more powerful as it is related to both capability and attitude development. It can be taken as similar to outcomes-training simulations with the end goal "At the end of the training, the learner shall be able to ....". In my company, we use the "how to do something" simulation to complete te Air Trafic Controler's training.
I also think that the "how you can do something" simulation can be used for assessing aeronautical meteorological forecasters. It can take the form "assess the show what you can do" by asking the learner to deal with the questions such as"What would you do" if you have the following weather conditions (all conditions are simulated).
Maybe should you think about simulation and competency development?
Ilboudo