Inquiry learning in technology enhanced learning environments

Περίληψη

Modern theories on learning and instruction call attention to learning environments
that create constructivistic, situated, and collaborative learning experiences.
Simulations offer specific features that enable self-directed, highly autonomous,
high interaction learning. First, learning in these environments differs from learning
in expository environments in that it puts a higher emphasis on inquiry processes
such as hypothesis generation and testing and on regulative processes such as
planning and monitoring. Second, these environments offer specific opportunities
to situate learning in realistic settings, but they also offer the possibility to adapt
reality to support learning. Third, inquiry learning presents opportunities for
negotiation and collaboration. This presentation will set out characteristics of
simulations discuss characteristic inquiry processes and associated problems, and
relate them to instructional design. In the presentation a number of simulation
based learning environments will be demonstrated.