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Xin Cao; Yen Hsu – Interactive Learning Environments, 2023
Virtual experiments are widely used in the field of education for their low cost, strong interaction, hyperspace and safety advantages. While some researchers have analysed the impact of virtual technologies such as AR or VR on teaching effectiveness, few researchers have comprehensively explored the impact of virtual experiments on students'…
Descriptors: Influence of Technology, Electronic Learning, School Effectiveness, Laboratory Experiments
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Marín Juarros, Victoria; Salinas Ibáñez, Jesús; de Benito Crosetti, Bárbara – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
This paper focuses on institutionally powered personal learning environments (iPLEs). The concept of the iPLE can be seen as a way universities can incorporate learner-centred approach into the architecture of their technology-enhanced learning environments. The aim of this paper is to pose that there are other ways to learn complementary to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Technology, Web 2.0 Technologies, Technology Uses in Education
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Cornelius, Sarah; Gordon, Carole; Ackland, Aileen – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
This article argues for a flexible model of learning for adults which allows them to make choices and contextualise their learning in a manner appropriate to their own professional practice whilst also developing as a member of a learning community. It presents a design based around online "learning activities" which draws on ideas of…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Adult Education, Adult Learning, Adult Students
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Browne, Tom; Jenkins, Martin; Walker, Richard – Interactive Learning Environments, 2006
Between 2001 and 2005 the Universities and Colleges Information Systems Association (UCISA) and the Joint Information Systems Council (JISC) conducted surveys into issues relating to the acquisition, use, management, and support of Virtual Learning Environments (VLEs). A number of other studies provide information on these issues during this…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Virtual Classrooms, Educational Environment, Higher Education
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Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Lone; Lorentsen, Annette – Interactive Learning Environments, 2003
The article focuses on the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for strengthening and transforming university practice in line with the social and technological conditions of the new ideas for "interactive" universities. The purpose is to use ICT as a change-agent in order to establish new practices--new pedagogical…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Innovation, Information Technology, Computer Uses in Education
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Veen, Jan; Collis, Betty; Jones, Val – Interactive Learning Environments, 2003
Group-based learning is being introduced into many settings in higher education. Is this a sustainable development with respect to the resources required? Under what conditions can group-based learning be applied successfully in distance education and in increasingly flexible campus-based learning? Can networked support facilitate and enrich…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Identification, Sustainable Development, Distance Education
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Bronack, Stephen; Riedl, Richard; Tashner, John – Interactive Learning Environments, 2006
Web-based technologies are the medium of choice for most universities as they move their offerings off campus and online. As we continue to move our own programs online we are challenged to consider what elements of our traditional experiences to preserve online, and which ones to modify, and to recognize the impact of the tools we use on our…
Descriptors: Internet, Educational Environment, Online Courses, Constructivism (Learning)