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Download full textDriscoll, Marcy P. – 2002
This digest contains four sections that discuss the following broad principles that offer a framework to teachers for thinking about how technology can support their instruction: (1) learning occurs in context, including ways that technology can facilitate learning by providing real world contexts that engage learners in solving complex problems,…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Computer Simulation, Computer Uses in Education, Cooperative Learning
Kerka, Sandra – 1999
In one school of thought, self-directed learning (SDL) is based in the autonomous, independent individual who chooses to undertake learning for personal growth. However, another school of thought stresses the social construction of knowledge and the social context of learning. Some writers challenge the exclusive emphasis on the autonomous self…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Active Learning, Adult Education, Adult Learning
