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  • Immersive Interfaces for Engagement and Learning

    Author argues and provides evidence that immersion through digit environments enhances education in three ways: allowing multiple perspectives, situated learning, and transfer.

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    on 2009-04-11

    • A major advantage of egocentric perspectives is that they enable participants' actional immersion and motivation through embodied, concrete learning, whereas exocentric perspectives foster more abstract, symbolic insights gained from distancing oneself from the context (seeing the forest rather than the trees). Bicentric experiences that alternate these views combine these strengths.
    • mmersive interfaces can foster educational experiences that draw on a powerful pedagogy: situated learning. Situated learning requires authentic contexts, activities, and assessment coupled with guidance from expert modeling, mentoring, and "legitimate peripheral participation"
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  • Algebra Tutor

    Program guides students through algebra problems, success key is that is notices and corrects problems through the students work progress through each problem. Makes a lot a sense for a sequential skill and exercise like this.

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    on 2009-04-11

  • Korean Online Learning

    Rising cost and popularity of extra-curricular tutoring and education has led to a national online tutor service that's free for students. They can access extra information, videos and multimedia, testing and recorded lectures. Allows for strong and struggling students alike to work at their own pace.

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    on 2009-04-11

  • "Glow"

    Scottish Intranet gov't system that connects all teachers, students, and parents. Provides a one-stop-shop for all in the district, teachers collaborate, post material, videos, articles, pics, etc. which the students can then browse through instead of blindly searching the web.

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    on 2009-04-11

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