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Title:Towards Sustainable & Scalable Educational Innovations Informed by the Learning Sciences : Sharing Good Practices of Research, Experimentation & Innovation
Series:(Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence & Applications Series, Volume 133)
Author:C K Looi, D Jonassen & M Ikeda (eds)
ISBN:1586035738 : 9781586035730
Format:Paperback
Size:165x245mm
Pages:1024
Weight: 1.62 Kg.
Published:IOS Press - December 2005
List Price: 114 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:EDUCATION


One of the basic principles that underpin the learning sciences is to improve theories of learning through the design of powerful learning environments that can foster meaningful learning. Learning sciences researchers prefer to research learning in authentic contexts. They collect both qualitative and quantitative data from multiple perspectives and follow developmental micro-genetic or historical approaches to data observation. Learning sciences researchers conduct research with the intention of deriving design principles through which change and innovation can be enacted. Their goal is to conduct research that can sustain transformations in schools. We need to be cognisant of research that can inform and lead to sustainable and scalable models of innovation. In order to do so, we need to take an inter-disciplinary view of learning, such as that embraced by the learning sciences. This publication focuses on learning sciences in the Asia-Pacific context. There are researchers and young academics within the Asia-Pacific Society for Computers in Education (APSCE) community who are concerned with issues of conducting research that can be translated into practice. Changes in practice are especially important to Asian countries because their educational systems are more centralised. That is why there is a need to reform pedagogy in a more constructivist and social direction in a scalable way.

CONTENTS INCLUDE: An Analytic Model Based on ASP for Maintaining ZPDs in CSCL Environments; A Constraint-Based Tutor for Learning Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Using UML; A Case Study Describing the Creation and Implementation of a Capacity; Building Program for Mixed Mode Delivery of Academic Programmes in Developing Countries; Fostering Learning Communities Among Teachers and Students: Potentials and Issues; Group Metacognition in a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning Environment; Examining the Psychological Impact of Video Cases for Teacher Education; Computer-Mediated Face-to-Face Interaction Supporting for Peer Tutoring; Public Computing, Computer Literacy and Educational Outcome: Children and Computers in Rural India; Summative Computer Programming Assessment Using Both Paper and Computer; Ontology-Driven Incremental Annotation of Educational Content for Instruction Planning; The Development of ClassSim: A Simulated Learning Environment to Support the Practicum Experience for Pre-Service Teachers; Innovative Learning and Unlearning; Implementation and Effectiveness of a Feedback Feature in Underlining to Promote Reading Comprehension of e-Learning Instructional Materials; Interactivity of Exercises in ActiveMath; EpiList II: Explicit Instructions for Development of Generic Cognitive Skills.