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Evans, Vyvyan – Language Learning, 2008
Recent work addressing the phenomenon of perceptual simulation offers new and exciting avenues of investigating how to model knowledge representation. From the perspective of language, the simulation approach has given rise to new impetus to work on models of language understanding (e.g., Zwaan, 2004, and references therein), and provides a way of…
Descriptors: Semantics, Language Role, Knowledge Representation, Language Processing
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Churchill, Daniel – Educational Technology Research and Development, 2007
The learning object remains an ill-defined concept, despite numerous and extensive discussion in the literature. This paper attempts to address this problem by providing a classification that potentially brings together various perspectives of what a learning object may be. Six unique types of learning objects are proposed and discussed:…
Descriptors: Classification, Educational Resources, Simulation, Models
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Klabbers, Jan H. G. – Simulation & Gaming, 1996
Gaming is discussed against a background of rationalist and historicist traditions of reality; trivial and nontrivial machine models of problem solving; and rigid-rule and free-form games. (JKP)
Descriptors: Decision Making, Educational Environment, Games, Heuristics