Journal of Interactive Learning Research articles from September 2005

Journal of Interactive Learning Research archives from September 2005

Design methodology for the implementation and evaluation of a scenario-based online learning environment.
September 22, 2005... A constant challenge facing university faculty and academics is determining how innovative and authentic elements, based on constructivist philosophy, can be manifested effectively in online learning settings. In this article, we describe an...

The effect of online gaming, cognition and feedback type in facilitating delayed achievement of different learning objectives.(survey)
September 22, 2005... Online and computer-based instructional gaming is becoming a viable instructional strategy at all levels of education. The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of (a) gaming, (b) gaming plus embedded questions, and (c) gaming plus...

How low-income children use the internet at home.(survey)
September 22, 2005... HomeNetToo is a longitudinal field study designed to examine home Internet use by low-income families in the United States. Participants were 140 children, mostly African American, whose Internet use was continuously and automatically recorded...

The effects of the Collaborative Representation Supporting Tool on problem-solving processes and outcomes in web-based collaborative Problem-Based Learning (PBL) environments.
September 22, 2005... Web-based collaborative Problem-Based Learning (PBL) environments have great potential for learner improvement in solving ill-structured problems in practical situations. Web-based environments, however, offer learners relatively few chances to...

Applying peer-to-peer technology to the building of distributed educational systems.
September 22, 2005... Existing educational systems built for cooperative and collaborative activities are most often based on the client/server paradigm of distributed computing. This article shows that a new model for distributed computing, Peer-to-Peer (P2P),...