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Interactive Learning Environments: Contemporary Issues and Trends. An Introduction to the Special Issue

Many of the affordances associated with computer-based learning environments are due to their interactive nature. Such interactive learning environments do not merely present information like a book or an instructional video; instead, they permit learners to actively engage in order to learn. Although at first glance it would seem clear what the terms “interaction” and “interactive” mean in the...

Interactive Multimodal Learning Environments Special Issue on Interactive Learning Environments: Contemporary Issues and Trends

What are interactive multimodal learning environments and how should they be designed to promote students’ learning? In this paper, we offer a cognitive–affective theory of learning with media from which instructional design principles are derived. Then, we review a set of experimental studies in which we found empirical support for five design principles: guided activity, reflection, feedback,...

Groupware: Issues and Applications J.UCS Special Issue

The articles of this special issue are significantly extended versions of selected papers presented at the 12th International Workshop on Groupware (CRIWG 2006) held in Medina del Campo, Spain in September 2006. The CRIWG workshops are annual events which have a single track of relatively few papers, providing ample time for lively and constructive discussions during and between sessions. The 2...

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