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Niemeyer, Dodie J.; Gerber, Hannah R. – Educational Media International, 2015
Collaborative learning environments found with gaming communities can provide excellent structures to study the way that learners act within informal learning environments. For example, many of these gaming communities encourage gamers to create videogames and virtual world walkthroughs and commentaries. Walkthroughs and commentaries provide…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Educational Games, Computer Games, Communities of Practice
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Roushias, Christos; Barton, Angela Calabrese; Drake, Corey – Educational Media International, 2009
The purpose of this paper is to present the rationale and principles that guided the design and development of PARENTS, a multimedia case-based environment. Following a development research approach, the tenets of constructivist learning, and the advantages of case-based instruction, we developed a multimedia program in which we utilized and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Urban Schools, Science Teachers, Multimedia Materials