Constructivist Learning: Understanding and Experience in IT Tertiary Education

Recognising Prior Learning: Understanding the Relations Among Experience, Learning and Recognition from a Constructivist Perspective

Cognitive and Constructivist Perspective of IT Based Education

This article presents research studies regarding the definition of the genesis and determinants of ICT development in the context of behavioural, humanistic and cognitive theories of education. It explains the phenomena which are connected with their application in didactic processes. The research methodology used is based on the review of literature of the subject and some studies performed pr...

Learning Science-Based Fitness Knowledge in Constructivist Physical Education.

Teaching fitness-related knowledge has become critical in developing children's healthful living behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of a science-based, constructivist physical education curriculum on learning fitness knowledge critical to healthful living in elementary school students. The schools (N = 30) were randomly selected from one of the largest school distric...

VR in Education: An Introduction to Multisensory Constructivist Learning Environments

For educational purposes, Virtual Reality (VR) has been proposed as a technological breakthrough that holds the power to facilitate learning. Though, most efforts within the VR community have focused on applications designed to fulfill purposes of training, such as vehicle simulators, medical and military training. While this area is not at all unimportant on university level, we believe it is ...

What Is Constructivist about Constructivist Education ?

My work over the past 30 years has been to take what seemed to me the best theory of human mental development –Piaget's—and try to draw its educational implications. Those implications have grown into a general educational paradigm that I have called constructivist education. Taking Piaget's epistemological and psychological theory as an example of theory inspiring educators, we can point to ma...