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Sandra Lyndon; Helen Moss – International Journal of Early Years Education, 2024
This article reports on findings from a case study of an intergenerational project between a nursery school and a residential care home for people with dementia in the South-East of England. It examines how multi-modalities support meaning-making between 3-year-old children and older adults. The study is qualitative, interpretative and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Constructivism (Learning), Older Adults, Intergenerational Programs
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Kenneth Silseth; Rolf Steier; Hans Christian Arnseth – International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning, 2024
By adopting a situated and interactional approach, we explore students' immersive VR experiences as resources for collaborative meaning making and learning. We draw on data from a project in which teachers and researchers co-developed a learning design for upper secondary students involving immersive VR technology. In this learning design,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Secondary School Students, Computer Simulation, Constructivism (Learning)
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Zhu, Xiaoming; Sun, Bo; Luo, Yanlin – Interactive Learning Environments, 2018
Now visualization courses have been taught at universities around the world. Keeping students motivated and actively engaged in this course can be a challenging task. In this paper we introduce our developed interactive learning system called VisMis (Visualization and Multi-modal Interaction System) for postgraduate scientific visualization course…
Descriptors: Visualization, Graduate Study, Teaching Methods, Concept Formation
Liu, Xiqin; Qu, Dianning – RELC Journal: A Journal of Language Teaching and Research, 2014
To explore the multimodality of two representative EFL textbook series for Chinese college students, their visual and verbal semiotic modes were compared. The target textbooks are "Experiencing English" and "New Century College English". Through multimodal discourse analysis, the study aims to shed some light on how to develop…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, English (Second Language), Second Language Instruction, Textbook Evaluation
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Lloyd, Annemaree; Somerville, Margaret – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to explore the contribution that an information literacy approach to the empirical study of workplace learning can make to how people understand and conceptualise workplace learning. Design/methodology/approach: Three cohorts of fire-fighters working in two regional locations in NSW, Australia were…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Constructivism (Learning), Information Sources, Learning
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Papastergiou, Marina – Educational Media International, 2007
This study aimed to use a course management system (CMS) based on the open source software Claroline within a blended mode course, incorporating social constructivist approaches to learning, and to investigate its strengths and the challenges faced by the students and the instructor. Participants were 72 students and their instructor. Research…
Descriptors: Questionnaires, Management Systems, Educational Strategies, Learning Modalities