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  1. Constructionism in Practice

    Designing, Thinking, and Learning in A Digital World

    Edited by Yasmin B. Kafai, Mitchel Resnick

    The digital revolution necessitates, but also makes possible, radical changes in how and what we learn. This book describes a set of innovative educational research projects at the MIT Media Laboratory, illustrating how new computational technologies can transform our conceptions of learning,...

    Published March 31st 1996 by Routledge

  2. New infotainment Technologies in the Home

    Demand-side Perspectives

    Edited by Ruby Roy Dholakia, Norbert Mundorf, Nikhilesh Dholakia

    Series: Routledge Communication Series

    As the "information superhighway" moves into the home through interactive media, enhanced telecom services, and hybrid appliances, interest continually grows in how consumers adopt and use Information Technology (IT), the strategies IT marketers use to reach consumers, and the public policies that...

    Published February 29th 1996 by Routledge

  3. International Perspectives on the Design of Technology-supported Learning Environments

    Edited by Stella Vosniadou, Erik De Corte, Robert Glaser, Heinz Mandl

    In recent years, the use of technology for the purposes of improving and enriching traditional instructional practices has received a great deal of attention. However, few works have explicitly examined cognitive, psychological, and educational principles on which technology-supported learning...

    Published January 31st 1996 by Routledge

  4. Writing Technology

    Studies on the Materiality of Literacy

    By Christina Haas

    Academic and practitioner journals in fields from electronics to business to language studies, as well as the popular press, have for over a decade been proclaiming the arrival of the "computer revolution" and making far-reaching claims about the impact of computers on modern western culture....

    Published October 31st 1995 by Routledge

  5. Intelligent Language Tutors

    Theory Shaping Technology

    Edited by V. Melissa Holland, Jonathan D. Kaplan, Michelle R. Sams

    The techniques of natural language processing (NLP) have been widely applied in machine translation and automated message understanding, but have only recently been utilized in second language teaching. This book offers both an argument for and a critical examination of this new application, with...

    Published August 31st 1995 by Routledge

  6. Intelligent Language Tutors

    Theory Shaping Technology

    Edited by V. Melissa Holland, Michelle R. Sams, Jonathan D. Kaplan

    The techniques of natural language processing (NLP) have been widely applied in machine translation and automated message understanding, but have only recently been utilized in second language teaching. This book offers both an argument for and a critical examination of this new application, with...

    Published August 31st 1995 by Routledge

  7. Open and Distance Learning Today

    Edited by Fred Lockwood

    Series: Routledge Studies in Distance Education

    The book presents a comprehensive account of research and development activities in open, ditance and flexible learning from acknowledged experts from around the world. The use of open, distance and flexible learning materials is expanding dramatically, not just in schools, further and higher...

    Published June 14th 1995 by Routledge

  8. Engines for Education

    By Roger C. Schank, Chip Cleary

    Most six-year-olds can't wait to go to school on that first day in September. It's a sign of coming of age. They get to go to school like the big kids. For an alarmingly large number of these children, however, boredom, anxiety, and fear of learning quickly set in. This happens because societies...

    Published April 30th 1995 by Routledge

  9. Constructivism in Education

    Edited by Leslie P. Steffe, Jerry Gale

    Unique in offering a multidisciplinary perspective on key issues of alternative epistemologies in education, this collection includes contributions from scholars in family therapy, epistemology, and mathematics, science, and language education. These respected researchers were brought together to...

    Published December 31st 1994 by Routledge

  10. Theory and Practice of Distance Education

    2nd Edition

    By Borje Holmberg

    Series: Routledge Studies in Distance Education

    Distance education is practised in all parts of the world and in recent years, its scope has developed enormously and rapidly. It has become an intrinsic part of many national educational systems and an academic discipline in its own right. Research into the area has produced a body of theory which...

    Published December 14th 1994 by Routledge