Handbook of conversation design for instructional applications

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Luppicini, Rocci.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2008.
• Subjects: Instructional systems > Design.; Computer-assisted instruction.; Education > Computer network resources.; Educational technology.; Adaptive systems; Artificial intelligence; Blended course design; Communication with architects; Communication with the client; Computer engineering; Conversation and design; Conversation and teaching; Conversation design; Conversation theory; Conversation with the self; Conversational processes; Conversationally articulated learning; Cybernetics; E-learning; Electronic discussion; Human centrality; Intelligent agents; Intelligent tutors; Interpersonal action-learning cycle; Knowledge testing; Knowledge-building framework; Learning in storytelling; Linguistics and language pragmatics; Multimodal conversations; Online learning communities; Online tutoring; Roots of conversation design; Scaffold learning; Systems theory; Theories of consciousness
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"This book presents key perspectives on the evolving area of conversation design, bringing together a body of work focused on the study of conversation and conversation design practices to inform instructional applications. Offering multimodal instructional designers and developers authoritativ...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introducing conversation design / Rocci Luppicini
• 2. Working with Gordon Pask (1967-1978) / Bernard Scott
• 3. Instructions for design and designs for conversation / Paul Pangaro
• 4. The human centrality of conversational learning / Gary McIntyre Boyd
• 5. Conversation and design / Ranulph Glanville
• 6. Conversation theory conceptualized in e-learning environments / Janet Holland, Marcus Childress
• 7. Conversation design in the electronic discussion age / Gregory MacKinnon
• 8. Conversation theory /Kit Leung
• 9. Online tutoring as conversation design / Guadalupe de la Cruz Mendoza, Nick Kearney
• 10. Instructional conversations / Lorraine Sherry, Shelley Billig
• 11. Making online bulletin board dialogues work / Gülsün Kurubacak
• 12. Designing online conversations to engage local practice / Alyssa Wise, Thomas Duffy
• 13. Applying grounded conversation design to instruction / Rocci Luppicini
• 14. Constructing online conversation to support learning / Li Jin, Albert Ingram
• 15. Telling stories / Vanessa Dennen, Melinda Sota
• 16. Pask and Ma join forces in an elementary mathematics methods course / Jean Morrow, Janet Holland
• 17. Using the interpersonal action-learning cycle to invite thinking, attentive comprehension / Bob Zimmer
• 18. Conversation for school change / Helga Stokes
• 19. A conversational framework for self-organised learning / Sheila Harri-Augstein, Laurie Thomas
• 20. Design and evaluation of embodied conversational agents for educational and advisory software / Elisabeth André
• 21. Modelling spoken multimodal instructional systems / Niels Ole Bernsen, Laila Dybkjær
• 22. Mobile technology and its applications in instructional conversation / Jason Caudill
• 23. Dialogue mapping and collaborative learning / Fung Ng
• 24. Politeness as a social computing requirement / Brian Whitworth, Tong Liu.