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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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Wolff, Annika; Mulholland, Paul; Zdrahal, Zdenek – Interactive Learning Environments, 2014
This paper describes an approach for supporting inquiry learning from source materials, realised and tested through a tool-kit. The approach is optimised for tasks that require a student to make interpretations across sets of resources, where opinions and justifications may be hard to articulate. We adopt a dialogue-based approach to learning…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Dialogs (Language), Feedback (Response), Web 2.0 Technologies
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Kerawalla, Lucinda; Littleton, Karen; Scanlon, Eileen; Jones, Ann; Gaved, Mark; Collins, Trevor; Mulholland, Paul; Blake, Canan; Clough, Gill; Conole, Gráinne; Petrou, Marilena – Interactive Learning Environments, 2013
Student engagement in the design and implementation of inquiries is an effective way for them to learn about the inquiry process and the domain being studied. However, inquiry learning in geography can be challenging for teachers and students due to the complexity of scientific inquiry and the diversity of pupils' and teachers' knowledge…
Descriptors: Inquiry, Active Learning, Geography Instruction, Computer Uses in Education
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Mulholland, Paul; Wolff, Annika; Zdrahal, Zdenek; Collins, Trevor – Interactive Learning Environments, 2008
Digital learning environments are generally composed of resources that cumulatively meet some specified educational objective, with each resource facilitating the acquisition of a subset of the concepts to be learned. In such contexts narrative has, for example, been used to support the understanding and navigation of a course or curriculum…
Descriptors: Instructional Design, Informal Education, Rhetoric, Educational Objectives