Tutorial #30

Interactive Learning Environments: Where They've Come From and Where They're Going

Elliot Soloway, University of Michigan

Monday, April 15, half-day afternoon

Benefits

You will gain insight into how the available technologies for learning, teaching and training can be used to facilitate the learning of complex information by students, trainees, and other users.

Origins

This tutorial received outstanding ratings at CHI '95.

Features

reasonable goals for individualized learning
historical survey of teaching and training technologies
lessons learned from computer-aided instruction, simulations, intelligent tutoring systems, and microworlds
types of outcomes from various instructional technologies
apprenticeship models of learning and training
next generation technology: Interactive Learning Environments
integration of home, workplace, and school via technology

Audience

Anyone facing the challenge of conveying complex topics to people who need to learn them, especially researchers and developers of technology-enhanced instructional environments. No background in instructional technologies is required.

Presentation

Lecture, including case studies of real instructional systems.

Instructors

Elliot Soloway is a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and in the School of Education at the University of Michigan. He heads up the Highly-Interactive Computing Environments Project in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research focuses on the use of computing and information technologies for learning.

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