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Reed, W. Michael; Oughton, John M. – Computers in Human Behavior, 1998
Analyzes students' visual renderings of concepts related to the term "hypermedia" to determine whether groups, membership of which was based on a mixture of learning styles or a mixture of hypermedia knowledge, constructed concept maps that differed in terms of several factors. Learning style seemed to explain the types of interactions more than…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping
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Oshima, Jun; And Others – Instructional Science, 1996
Computer-Supported Intentional Learning Environments (CSILE) is a database system in which learners collaboratively construct the knowledge represented in the database. This study examines how students in a grade-five and -six classroom built their database on a science topic, electricity. Differences in cognitive and operative activities between…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning
Buch, Anders – 1999
Knowledge production and learning in engineering is a local, situated, negotiated, and thoroughly social process. Although engineering work entails the construal, production, and application of artifacts and technical devices belonging to the "object world," the process of designing is a process of achieving consensus among real or…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Cooperation, Cooperative Learning