Innovative Adult Learning with Innovative Technologies

Erscheinungsjahr 1995
ISBN: 978-0-444-82246-8
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Technology

Buch, Englisch

Reihe: IFIP Transactions A: Computer Science and Technology

Innovations in adult learning are a complex mix of pedagogy, technology, organisation, strategy and vision. In this book, 17 cases representing state-of-the-art design and practice from nine different countries are presented, grouped around the themes of I. Innovative Instrumentation. II. Innovations in Learner Collaboration and III. Innovations in Practice.While all of the cases deal with innovative instrumentation (software or combinations of software and communication technologies), the six cases in section I offer a detailed look at software packages designed for some aspect of the innovation of adult learning, such as reducing information overload by intelligent tools or using a World-Wide Web environment for communication and learning.In section II, a variety of ways to innovate adult learning through collaborative activities are described, including learning scenarios that make effective use of collaboration and the technology and instrumentation that make collaboration at a distance possible.Section III describes innovative learning situations that have been successfully integrated into broad scale field settings, each focusing on a particular situation in which innovative technologies play a part.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Innovation in learning and innovations in technology: seventeen cases (B. Collis). Innovative Instrumentation. Information overload in the information age (M. Buenaga, B. Fernandez-Manyon, A. Fernandez-Valmayor). Learning from other people's dialogues: questions about computer-based answers (J.T. Mayes, I. Neilson). Using an intelligent tutor to facilitate collaborative learning (M.M. McManus, R.M. Aiken). Modelling the virtual campus (G. Paquette). An experimental project for network-mediated professional specialization: distance learning scenario design and support system (M.F. Verdejo). A cognitive tool for learning mathematics (B. Zwaneveld, G. Vuist). Innovations in Learner Collaboration. Social learning systems: an overview (T.-W. Chan). Co-operative work between schools and a university with ISDN multimedia communications (N. Davis). Co-operative learning in the distance education of adults: why, how and first results from the Co-Learn Project (A.C. Derycke, Ch. D'Halluin). Co-operative work within habilitation through videophones and computers: simple technology, great visions and some experiences (E. Flydal). Investigating collaborative distance learning in small groups which use audio conferencing and a shared workplace (E. Heeren). Virtual mobility and distributed laboratories: supporting collaborative research with knowledge technology (R. Lewis, B. Collis). Innovations in Practice. Upgrading adults through flexible learning: experiences from JITOL and NITOL (B. Ask). Product pedagogy as the foundation for computer supported collaborative learning (L. Dirckinck-Holmfeld). Evaluating technology-based learning (R.D. Mason). Increasing access to higher education using ISDN conferencing to create a virtual classroom. A model from the University of Sunderland (H. Milner). Distance education at the College of Gjøvik, Norway (H. Sponberg).