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Kim, Beaumie; Tan, Lynde; Bielaczyc, Katerine – Interactive Learning Environments, 2015
In this special issue, the authors purport to interrogate and further their understanding of the commonly cited term, "design," specifically "learner-generated designs." This issue brings together scholars from multiple disciplines, including learning sciences, literacy studies, science education, digital media, and pedagogy,…
Descriptors: Learner Controlled Instruction, Design, Student Centered Curriculum, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Baldoni, Matteo; Baroglio, Cristina; Brunkhorst, Ingo; Henze, Nicola; Marengo, Elisa; Patti, Viviana – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
Curricula authoring is a complex process, involving different actors and different kinds of knowledge. Learners aim at acquiring expertise about some topic of their own interest, and need to perceive that the curriculum they attend will lead them toward their goal; when this does not happen, they become demotivated. Learners are all different, not…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Internet, Semantics, Individualized Instruction
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Feurzeig, Wallace; Papert, Seymour A. – Interactive Learning Environments, 2011
Formal mathematical methods remain, for most high school students, mysterious, artificial and not a part of their regular intuitive thinking. The authors develop some themes that could lead to a radically new approach. According to this thesis, the teaching of programming languages as a regular part of academic progress can contribute effectively…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Programming Languages, Academic Achievement, Heuristics
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Janssen, Jose; van den Berg, Bert; Tattersall, Colin; Hummel, Hans; Koper, Rob – Interactive Learning Environments, 2007
Efficient and effective lifelong learning requires that learners can make well informed choices from a vast amount of learning opportunities. This article proposes to support learners by drawing on principles of self-organization and indirect social navigation; by analysing choices made by learners who went before and feeding this information back…
Descriptors: Measures (Individuals), Experimental Groups, Lifelong Learning, Curriculum Development
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Mandinach, Ellen B.; Cline, Hugh F. – Interactive Learning Environments, 1994
Examines how systems thinking, simulation, and modeling affect secondary school teachers' classroom processes. Highlights include a two-dimensional matrix to show patterns of adaptation, teacher proficiency with technology, curriculum development, time constraints, teacher training, expertise, accountability, administrative issues, and the…
Descriptors: Accountability, Computer Simulation, Curriculum Development, Matrices
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Newman, Denis; And Others – Interactive Learning Environments, 1993
Discusses the integration of technology into the curriculum and how to design an interactive technological learning environment based on the concept of scientific sense-making. Highlights include the importance of sense-making in science education and an experiment on curriculum design for a fifth- to sixth-grade unit on seasonal change. (Contains…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Computer Simulation, Curriculum Development