Development of virtual learning environment for discovery learning in school education

✍ Scribed by Yukihiro Matsubara; Hiroyuki Tominaga; Zengo Furukawa; Toshinori Yamasaki; Mitsuo Nagamachi

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 988 KB
• Volume: 33
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0882-1666
• DOI: 10.1002/scj.1142

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper focuses on learning which emphasizes experience among discovery learning schemes. Knowledge gained by experience is clearly stable compared with learning acquired by simple symbol manipulations. Thus, realizing a learning environment supporting discovery learning using virtual reality (VR) technology is attempted. The VR technology has many characteristic functions and can provide an interactive learning environment with a high degree of freedom which is required in supporting discovery learning which relies on experience. In this paper, considering applications to curriculum education, in which discovery learning is performed frequently, a framework of a virtual learning environment (VLE), which is a learning environment, integrating the functions of a VR environment and an ITS environment is proposed. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 33(7): 61–72, 2002; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/scj.1142