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Designing a Constructive Learning Activity with Interactive Elements: The Effects of Perspective-Shifting and the Quality of Source Material
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Damnik, Gregor; Proske, Antje; Körndle, Hermann – Interactive Learning Environments, 2017
When teachers or instructors create computer-based learning environments, they often solely consider technical aspects of interactivity. As a consequence, learners' main role is to respond to requests of the learning environment (e.g. by answering multiple-choice questions). This aspect of interactivity is, however, not sufficient to understand…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Constructivism (Learning), Interaction, Perspective Taking
Academic Continuity through Online Collaboration: Mathematics Teachers Support the Learning of Pupils with Chronic Illness during School Absence
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Wilkie, Karina J. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
Recent applications of technology to mathematics education have been designed with cognitive and constructivist theoretical perspectives in mind, viewing mathematical learning as the acquisition of knowledge through the construction of meanings and connections between concepts. With the advent of increasingly flexible communication technologies,…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Chronic Illness, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Brave New (Interactive) Worlds: A Review of the Design Affordances and Constraints of Two 3D Virtual Worlds as Interactive Learning Environments
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Dickey, Michele D. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2005
Three-dimensional virtual worlds are an emerging medium currently being used in both traditional classrooms and for distance education. Three-dimensional (3D) virtual worlds are a combination of desk-top interactive Virtual Reality within a chat environment. This analysis provides an overview of Active Worlds Educational Universe and Adobe…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Distance Education, Computer Mediated Communication, Electronic Mail