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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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A Journey on Refining Rules for Online Discussion: Implications for the Design of Learning Management Systems
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Chen, Der-Thanq; Wang, Yu-Mei; Hung, David – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2009
Research on asynchronous online discussions has primarily focused on their efficacy in relation to learning outcomes. Rarely are there investigations on how the design of online learning activities or how discussions could be incorporated into student learning experience. We contend that successful online activities need careful and meticulous…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Learning Experience, Group Discussion, Guidelines
From Traditional to Constructivist Epistemologies: A Proposed Theoretical Framework Based on Activity Theory for Learning Communities
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Hung, David; Tan, Seng-Chee; Koh, Thiam-Seng – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2006
This article is concerned with how learning communities are transformed as they evolve from traditional learning epistemologies towards constructivist orientations and pedagogies. Adopting activity theory as a framework, the article discusses how transformations take place through a two-way process of appropriation (learning from one another as a…
Descriptors: Interaction, Constructivism (Learning), Epistemology, Teaching Methods
Situated Cognition and Problem-Based Learning: Implications for Learning and Instruction with Technology.
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Hung, David – Journal of Interactive Learning Research, 2002
Reviews the foundational principles of situated cognition and substantiates its theoretical underpinnings with a transactional worldview; draws connections between situated cognition and problem-based learning; and draws implications from situated cognition and problem-based learning to learning and instruction with technology. Suggests that…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Problem Based Learning, Social Influences, Technology Uses in Education