Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning

Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning

Release Date: May, 2010|Copyright: © 2010 |Pages: 280
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61520-937-8
ISBN13: 9781615209378|ISBN10: 1615209379|EISBN13: 9781615209385
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Description:

Learning scenarios have benefited greatly from technology through tools such as Internet collaboration, information access, and social networking. However, it is not technology itself that provides the learning; it is also dependent on the different environmental factors and how those factors such as teaching strategies, instructional methods, and technology based instruction comprise the learning environment and knowledge acquisition.

Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning discusses how aspects of technology can facilitate and provide advancements in e-collaborative knowledge construction. This reference collection gives an impression about scenarios of e-collaborative knowledge construction and the technology applied in these scenarios while focusing on technologies that enable collaborative knowledge construction processes and how they can be framed to support e-collaborative knowledge construction.

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The many academic areas covered in this publication include, but are not limited to:

  • Case-based learning
  • Collaborative authoring system
  • Collaborative knowledge in VLEs
  • E-collaboration between people and technology
  • E-collaborative learning-by-doing environments
  • E-learning as socio-cultural systems
  • Graduate education in Web 2.0 environments
  • Instructional design to pedagogical infrastructures
  • Interactive evolution in learning communities
  • Knowledge access in learning communities
  • Knowledge construction challenges
  • Moodle
  • Web video conferencing
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This book provides particular insights in the issue of how technologies can bring advancements for learning, offering practice examples that show how e-collaborative knowledge construction takes place in a learning environment and how technology supports learning in this environment.

– Bernhard Ertl, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Germany
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Bernhard Ertl is senior researcher at the Universität der Bundeswehr München. He has realized several research projects in the context of video-mediated learning, Internet collaboration and online-courses with a particular focus on the support of collaborative knowledge construction by the methods of scripts and structured communication interfaces. A further focus of research is the issue of gender in computer and science teaching which includes projects with national and EU funding. Bernhard Ertl earned his Diploma in computer science from the Ludwig Maximilian University Munich in 1998 and his Doctorate in education 2003. From 1999 to 2006, he was researcher at the Department Psychology of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and worked with Professor Heinz Mandl in DFG-funded research projects focusing on collaborative learning, e.g. "Collaborative Learning in Graphics-enhanced Tele-learning Environments" and "Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Desktop Videoconferencing."
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Editorial Advisory Board
  • Mario Barajas Frutos, University of Barcelona – DOE, Spain
  • Frank Fischer, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
  • Kathy Kikis-Papadakis, Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas / Institute of Applied and Computational Mathematics, Greece
  • Erno Lehtinen, University of Turku, Finland
  • Heinz Mandl, Ludwig Maximilian University, Germany
  • Jim Slotta, University of Toronto, Canada
  • Jörg Zumbach, University of Salzburg, Austria