e-Learning environments

20-June-2005

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Powerful teaching and learning environments occur when....learners gain conscious cognition of unconscious learning through strategies such as meditation, spontaneity, reflection, intuition, imagination and fantasy.

There have been many rules and rubrics published regarding the development of e-learning environments. I stumbled on this one the other day in a book I helped edit (can't find the book on line - must put it there but related papers can be found here) . Interestingly it was developed for work based learning - and pre-dates the advent of e-learning. Nevertheless I think it stands up pretty well in the e-learning age.

A powerful teaching and learning environment occurs where :

  • it is based on the provision of direct experience rather than indirect experience and use of representational systems
  • it is based on learning through action in the contexts in which the learning is to be applied
  • learning takes place in the presence of experts practising in the contexts in which the learning is to be applied
  • experiences challenge the learner
  • individuals become conscious of their implicit theories about learning
  • individuals view learning as under their control and as intrinsically rewarding
  • learners become conscious of their thinking and learning strategies
  • there are the conditions of collaborative teamwork which provide experience for the learner in the form of modelling, feedback and encouragement to reflect
  • facilitators of learning such as mentor or coach themselves engage in learning to learn, facing problems, adapting to these in the practical context and reflecting on problem formulation and problem solving strategies
  • learners gain conscious cognition of unconscious learning through strategies such as meditation, spontaneity, reflection, intuition, imagination and fantasy (Murphy, 1975).

    The list is     adapted from De Corte (1990)

Graham Attwell; 20-June-2005 08:08:28; forum (1) help

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Mike Malloch has usefully followed up the De Corte reference in this entry. Amazing just how much metadata does exist these days..


De  Corte, E. (1990) 'Towards powerful learning environments for the acquisition of problem-solving skills', European Journal of Psychology of Education, 5, pp. 5-19

it is cited in a nesta futurelab report at http://www.nestafuturelab.org/research/reviews/reviews_13/13_22.htm
De Corte, E (1990). Towards powerful learning environments for the acquisition of problem solving skills. European Journal of Psychology of Education, 5, 5-19

along with a recent book
Bereiter, C and Scardamalia, M (2003). Learning to work creatively with knowledge, in: E De Corte, L Verschaffel, N Entwistle and J van Merriënboer (eds) Powerful Learning Environments: Unravelling Basic Components and Dimensions (pp55-68). Pergamon: Oxford

the book is a hit at elsevier site search:
 
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/simple_search.cws_home?pubtype=Any&boost=true&needs_keyword=true&adv=false&keywords=van+Merriënboer&action=product_search

INFO AS FOLLOWS:  http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/672870/description#description


tried bmlet to add in connotea -- they need to add an elsevier book plugin cause none yet and elsevier site unhelspful :o)

added it here but no nice detail and do not klnow how to add it... must read connotea docs again :o)

http://www.connotea.org/uri/b7c6ee745a0e28100eefa24cf464fcf9
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( the book is revierwed privately by OU KN folks at http://kn.open.ac.uk/public/document.cfm?docid=4312 )
( it is also cited in http://lcp.cite.hku.hk/Literatures/Reference/   = References: On Knowledge Building

...and a chapter

De Corte, E (1994). Towards the integration of computers in powerful learning environments, in: S Vosnaidou, E De Corte & H Mandl (eds), Technology-Based Learnng Environments: Psychological and Educational Foundations (pp9-25). Berlin: Springer-Verlag



could not find that journal online though this might be private academic link in it
        http://www.lib.unb.ca/eresources/jour_res.php?id=24631&level=3&field=id_num

the following is from   http://psych.hanover.edu/Krantz/journal.html



               British Journal of  Educational Psychology {Recent table of contents and general information  and sample free issues.  Full text with subscription or membership.}
               

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               Ecological Psychology  {General information, table of contents, and author index.}
               Education & Treatment of Children. {Information and Table of Contents online here.  Full text online via Ebscohost}
               Educational Policy Analysis Archives.  A refereed journal of the American Education Research Association.
               Educational Psychology.   {General Information, titles and current abstracts only}
               Educational Psychology Review  An  online journal of educational psychology based upon ongoing graduate student projects at  the University of Texas.
               The Electronic Journal of  Communicative Psychoanalysis  {complete text articles,  peer-reviewed for scholarly style but not content.}
               The Electronic Journal of Human Sexuality  {A refereed  online journal. In addition it has doctoral dissertations, links to posters, and general  interest articles.}
                Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology {A refereed online journal, freely available, in English and Spanish}
               The EMDR Practitioner.   {On-line refereed journal}
               European  Journal of Behavior Analysis.  {General information and  sample articles online}
               European  Journal of Cognitive Psychology.  {General information,  tables of contents, and sample issues free online}
               European Journal of Neuroscience  {General information and current contents and abstracts.}
               European  Journal of Work and Organizational Psychology.  {General information,  tables of contents, and sample issues free online}
               Europe's Journal of Psychology. {Refereed journal with access online.}
               Evaluar.  {peer reviewed online journal, in Spanish} related to Psychology and Assessment

Graham (as anonymous) Attwell, 20-June-2005 12:48:22 forum / discussion

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