Designs for Learning Environments of the Future International Perspectives from the Learning Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jacobson, Michael J. (Editor), Reimann, Peter. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2010.
• Subjects: Education.; Educational Technology.; Computers and Education.; Learning & Instruction.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-88279-6

Few things are as certain as societal changesand the pressing need for educators to prepare students with the knowledge and ways of thinking necessary for the challenges in a changing world. In the forward-thinking pages of Designs for Learning Environments of the Future, international teams of res...

Table of Contents:

• Invention and Innovation in Designing Future Learning Environments
• MaterialSim: A Constructionist Agent-Based Modelinging Approach to Engineering Education
• Learning Genetics with Dragons: From Computer-Based Manipulatives to Hypermodels
• The Development of River City, a Multi-User Virtual Environment-Based Scientific Inquiry Curriculum: Historical and Design Evolutions
• Design Perspectives for Learning in Virtual Worlds
• Learning to Learn and Work in Net-Based Teams: Supporting Emergent Collaboration with Visualization Tools
• Learning Mathematics Through Inquiry: A Large Scale Evaluation
• Scaffolding Knowledge Communities in the Classroom: New Opportunities in the Web 2.0 Era
• From New Technological Infrastrutures to Curricular Activity Systems: Advance Designs for Teaching and Learning
• Towards a Theory of Personalized Learning Communities
• Afterword: Opportunities for Transformational Learning.