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Kolfschoten, Gwendolyn; Lukosch, Stephan; Verbraeck, Alexander; Valentin, Edwin; de Vreede, Gert-Jan – Computers & Education, 2010
Nowadays we need to teach students how to become flexible problem solvers in a dynamic world. The pace in which technology changes and complexity increases requires increased efficiency in learning and understanding. This requires the engineers of tomorrow to quickly gain knowledge and insight outside their prime area of expertise. To transfer…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Problem Solving, Learning Processes, Efficiency
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Williams, Vicki S. – College & University Media Review, 1998
Investigates the supportive side of current technology in the visual process of learning and the issues instructional designers must address to utilize these capabilities and maximize their effects. Provides an overview of visual memory and discusses information processing and analogic reasoning, cognition and visual information processing, visual…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Design Preferences, Information Processing, Information Technology
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Stefanou, Candice R.; Salisbury-Glennon, Jill D. – Learning Environments Research, 2002
Describes the effects of an undergraduate learner-centered community of learners approach to instruction on student motivation and cognitive learning strategies. Discusses objectives, including integrated courses, active and collaborative learning, and opportunities for learning through information technology and library resources; and describes…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Active Learning, Cognitive Processes, Faculty Development
Hill, Janette R.; Hannafin, Michael J. – 1996
The purpose of this study was to identify the strategies used by learners in an open-ended hypermedia information system. Four participants were drawn from an introductory technology-for-teachers course incorporating a unit on telecommunications. Participants completed a survey measuring reported knowledge in three domains (metacognitive, system,…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Networks, Hypermedia
Saunders, Nancy G. – 1998
This descriptive study examined the meaning of student responses to computer-mediated communication in a distance learning setting. The theoretical framework of the study was based on social and collaborative learning theories within a constructivist perspective. Participants were 13 studio and 24 off-site students enrolled in a distance learning…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Cognitive Processes, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Mediated Communication