March 18, 2004
Learning Environments
"Creating, growing and sustaining learning environments"
Keynote paper from Prof John Hedberg, ODLAA Forum 2003
Educational Uses of Technology - augmented from an earlier version, Barab 1998)
| Information Resource | provide information to support learner inquiry (e.g., databases, hypermedia, www) |
| Content Contextualization | material to be learned situated within rich contexts (e.g., experiential simulations) |
| Communication Tool | facilitating collaborative and distributed learning |
| Construction Kit | providing concrete Tools for building phenomena/understandings (e.g., HTML editors, multimedia construction programs) |
| Visualization/Manipulation Tool | presenting phenomena for scrutiny and manipulation (e.g., Visualization tools, model-based simulations) |
| Cognitive Tool | supporting the manipulation of data and resources to construct learning artefacts (see Jonassen, 1999) |
| Database Tool | supporting the collection and management of learning resources |
Hedberg on page 8 proposes some questions to be answered about learning environments.
Q: How do learning activities
-support learner engagement?
-acknowledge the learning context?
-seek to challenge learners?
-provide practice?
There is more detail in this paper about including the learner in the design process.
Posted by Kirsty at March 18, 2004 10:09 AM in Learning Design , Readings , Snippets