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Enhancing Learning from Hypertext by Inducing a Goal Orientation: Comparing Different Approaches.
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Zumbach, Jorg; Reimann, Peter – Instructional Science, 2002
Discussion of learning from hypertext focuses on a study that investigated three approaches for inducing learning goals: a tutorial that provided external and specific learning objectives; a goal-based scenario; and a strategy training leading to internal goal generation. Compared the three conditions regarding learning outcomes and motivational…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Comparative Analysis, Hypermedia, Learning Motivation
Beyond Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Using Computers as METAcognitive Tools To Enhance Learning?
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Azevedo, Roger – Instructional Science, 2002
Framed by theoretical and empirical research on cognitive and intelligent tutoring systems (ITSs), this commentary explores two areas. The first focuses on lack of conceptual clarity of the proposed constructivist stance and its related constructs. The second deals with similarities between the proposed stance and existing approaches documented in…
Descriptors: Artificial Intelligence, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Constructivism (Learning)
Beyond Intelligent Tutoring Systems: Situations, Interactions, Processes and Affordances.
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Akhras, Fabio N.; Self, John A. – Instructional Science, 2002
Presents an architecture of an intelligent system to support learning that is able to address the issues that arise from constructivist theories of learning in a way that, rather than opposing to the standard intelligent tutoring system architecture, characterizes a broader view in all its components which can be appropriately attuned to address…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Instruction, Computer System Design, Constructivism (Learning)