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Authentic Learning Environments
Authentic learning is a pedagogical approach that situates learning tasks in the context of future use. Over the last two decades, authentic learning designs have captured the imaginations of innovative educat...
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Mobile Technologies in Teacher Education
As more and more children bring personal mobile devices to school, schools struggle to formulate policies that acknowledge their power as learning tools. Until quite recently, policy often simply prohibited th...
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Supporting Authentic Learning Contexts Beyond Classroom Walls
At the classroom level, contexts for learning are often limited in the experiential component. Teachers and trainers feel overwhelmed by the difficulty of inventing contexts, and creating tasks that truly re...
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Immersive learning technologies: Realism and online authentic learning
THE DEVELOPMENT of immersive learning technologies in the form of virtual reality and advanced computer applications has meant that realistic creations of simulated environments are now possible. Such simulati...
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Design research: A socially responsible approach to instructional technology research in higher education
DESIGN RESEARCH has grown in importance since it was first conceptualized in the early 90s, but it has not been adopted for research in instructional technology in higher education to any great extent. Many re...
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A development research agenda for online collaborative learning
Although important, traditional basic-to-applied research methods have provided an insufficient basis for advancing the design and implementation of innovative collaborative learning environments. It is propos...
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Designing authentic activities in web-based courses
INFLUENCED by constructivist educational theory and advances in technology, there is increasing interest in authentic activities as a basis for learning in both face-to-face and Web-based courses. Whereas trad...
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Factors influencing quality online learning experiences
The gradual uptake of online learning as a delivery medium for higher education necessitates a shift in the metrics used to determine quality and success. While the attributes that have typically been used as ...
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An instructional design framework for authentic learning environments
The instructional technology community is in the midst of a philosophical shift from a behaviorist to a constructivist framework, a move that may begin to address the growing rift between formal school learnin...
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Learning to Teach and Assess Mathematics Using Multimedia: A Teacher Development Project
The current reform agenda in mathematics education promotes the view that mathematics should be taught and assessed in a variety of meaningful and authentic ways. However, recent international research indicat...
