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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Guiding the Design of Lessons by Using the MAPLET Framework: Matching Aims, Processes, Learner Expertise and Technologies
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Ifenthaler, Dirk; Gosper, Maree – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2014
This paper introduces the MAPLET framework that was developed to map and link teaching aims, learning processes, learner expertise and technologies. An experimental study with 65 participants is reported to test the effectiveness of the framework as a guide to the design of lessons embedded within larger units of study. The findings indicate the…
Descriptors: Guidelines, Instructional Design, Units of Study, Teaching Methods
The Mystery of Cognitive Structure and How We Can Detect It: Tracking the Development of Cognitive Structures over Time
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Ifenthaler, Dirk; Masduki, Iskandaria; Seel, Norbert M. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
Many research studies have clearly demonstrated the importance of cognitive structures as the building blocks of meaningful learning and retention of instructional materials. Identifying the learners' cognitive structures will help instructors to organize materials, identify knowledge gaps, and relate new materials to existing slots or anchors…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Instructional Materials, Retention (Psychology), Cognitive Development
Reading Guided by Automated Graphical Representations: How Model-Based Text Visualizations Facilitate Learning in Reading Comprehension Tasks
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Pirnay-Dummer, Pablo; Ifenthaler, Dirk – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
Our study integrates automated natural language-oriented assessment and analysis methodologies into feasible reading comprehension tasks. With the newly developed T-MITOCAR toolset, prose text can be automatically converted into an association net which has similarities to a concept map. The "text to graph" feature of the software is based on…
Descriptors: Concept Mapping, Reading Comprehension, Graphs, Natural Language Processing