ERIC Number: EJ461598
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1993
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Anchored Instruction and Situated Cognition Revisited.
Educational Technology, v33 n3 p52-70 Mar 1993
Reviews theories of anchored instruction and addresses issues related to learning, transfer, and assessment. Highlights include video-based macrocontexts; videodisc anchors versus computer-based simulations; cooperative learning; transfer outside the classroom; authenticity; visual anchors versus verbal anchors; situated cognition; and using distance learning technologies to create learning communities. (98 references) (LRW)
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Simulation, Cooperative Learning, Distance Education, Educational Theories, Experiential Learning, Higher Education, Learning Activities, Learning Processes, Learning Strategies, Transfer of Training, Verbal Stimuli, Videodisks, Videotape Recordings, Visual Aids
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Opinion Papers; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Anchored Instruction; Authenticity; Situated Learning; Vanderbilt University TN
Note: Prepared by the Cognition and Technology Group at Vanderbilt University.
