The regulative and semantic `distance' of electronic conferencing may impede the topical alignment and the unambiguous interpretation of messages, hindering collaborative lear...
This work draws on the cultural historical activity-theory and the theory of social systems to model socio-technical systems. The concepts of practice, system, and context work as ...
Using open e-learning platforms as a tool to support the learning process has become an international tendency. Specially, in order to motivate the achievement of desired competen...
Laura Mancera Valetts, Silvia Baldiris Navarro, Ra...
Animated pedagogical agents offer promise as a means of making computer-aided learning more engaging and effective. To achieve this, an agent must be able to interact with the lea...
W. Lewis Johnson, Erin Shaw, Andrew Marshall, Cath...
A great deal of effort has gone into developing open-ended inquiry activities for science education as well as complex computer tools for accessing scientific data to help student...
Ben Loh, Josh Radinsky, Eric Russell, Louis M. Gom...