Journal of Interactive Learning Research articles from December 2002

Journal of Interactive Learning Research archives from December 2002

High school physics instruction by way of the World Wide Web: a Brazilian case study.
December 22, 2002... This article describes the evolution of a distance education program where students perform physical experiments in their school assisted by a distance tutorial system. Twenty public high schools in 14 cities in he interior of Brazil...

Middle school students as multimedia designers: a project-based learning approach.
December 22, 2002... Engaging students as multimedia designers extends multimedia authoring by placing students in a designer's position. Instead of merely learning the technical skills and creating a project, the designers need to consider such issues as the needs...

An empirical evaluation of Specification Oriented Language in Visual Environment for Instruction Translation (SOLVEIT): a problem-solving and program development environment.
December 22, 2002... This article reports on an empirical study conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of a learning environment called SOLVEIT. SOLVEIT integrates problem-solving methodology, program development tasks, and co-requisite cognitive foundations....

Designing collaborative reflection supporting tools in e-project-based learning environments.
December 22, 2002... One of the key success factors for the e-project-based learning environments is collaborative reflection. Reflection refers to active, intellectual thinking for monitoring one's own learning activity and process, and a continuous internal...

Situated cognition and problem-based learning: implications for learning and instruction with technology.
December 22, 2002... The aims of this article are three-fold. First, this article reviews the foundational premises of situated cognition and attempts to substantiate its theoretical underpinnings with the transactional worldview supported by the works of John...