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Hooks and Shifts: A Dialectical Study of Mediated Discovery
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Abrahamson, Dor; Trninic, Dragan; Gutierrez, Jose F.; Huth, Jacob; Lee, Rosa G. – Technology, Knowledge and Learning, 2011
Radical constructivists advocate discovery-based pedagogical regimes that enable students to incrementally and continuously adapt their cognitive structures to the instrumented cultural environment. Some sociocultural theorists, however, maintain that learning implies discontinuity in conceptual development, because novices must appropriate expert…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Cultural Context
Interaction between Tool and Talk: How Instruction and Tools Support Consensus Building in Collaborative Inquiry-Learning Environments
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Gijlers, H.; Saab, N.; Van Joolingen, W. R.; De Jong, T.; Van Hout-Wolters, B. H. A. M. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
The process of collaborative inquiry learning requires maintaining a mutual understanding of the task, along with reaching consensus on strategies, plans and domain knowledge. In this study, we explore how different supportive measures affect students' consensus-building process, based on a re-analysis of data from four studies. We distinguish…
Descriptors: Discovery Learning, Discovery Processes, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Cooperative Learning
Designing for Inquiry-Based Learning with the Learning Activity Management System
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Levy, P.; Aiyegbayo, O.; Little, S. – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2009
This paper explores the relationship between practitioners' pedagogical purposes, values and practices in designing for inquiry-based learning in higher education, and the affordances of the Learning Activity Management System (LAMS) as a tool for creating learning designs in this context. Using a qualitative research methodology, variation was…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Inquiry, Active Learning, Higher Education
Effectiveness of Software Training Using Simulations: An Exploratory Study
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McElroy, Arnold D., Jr.; Pan, Cheng-Chang – Performance Improvement Quarterly, 2009
This study was designed to explore the effectiveness in student performance and confidence of limited and full device simulators. The 30 employees from an information technology company who participated in this study were assigned to one of three groups. Each group received practice for learning a complex software procedure using traditional…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Information Technology, Educational Technology, Computer Simulation
Exploration of the Attitudes of Freshman Foreign Language Students toward Using Computers at a Turkish State University
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Akbulut, Yavuz – Online Submission, 2008
The present study expands the design of Warschauer (1996) surveying freshman foreign language students at a Turkish university. Motivating aspects of computer assisted instruction in terms of writing and e-mailing are explored through an exploratory factor analysis conducted on the survey developed by Warschauer (1996). Findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Factor Analysis, College Freshmen
Exploration of the Attitudes of Freshman Foreign Language Students toward Using Computers at a Turkish State University
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Akbulut, Yavuz – Turkish Online Journal of Educational Technology - TOJET, 2008
The present study expands the design of Warschauer (1996) surveying freshman foreign language students at a Turkish university. Motivating aspects of computer assisted instruction in terms of writing and e-mailing are explored through an exploratory factor analysis conducted on the survey developed by Warschauer (1996). Findings suggest that…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Factor Analysis, College Freshmen