Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning

✍ Scribed by Bernhard Ertl

• Publisher: IGI Global snippet
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Series: Premier Reference Source
• Edition: First
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Learning scenarios have benefited greatly from technology through tools such as Internet collaboration, information access, and social networking. However, it is not technology itself that provides the learning; it is also dependent on the different environmental factors and how those factors such as teaching strategies, instructional methods, and technology based instruction comprise the learning environment and knowledge acquisition. Technologies and Practices for Constructing Knowledge in Online Environments: Advancements in Learning discusses how aspects of technology can facilitate and provide advancements in e-collaborative knowledge construction. This reference collection gives an impression about scenarios of e-collaborative knowledge construction and the technology applied in these scenarios while focusing on technologies that enable collaborative knowledge construction processes and how they can be framed to support e-collaborative knowledge construction.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
......Page 2
List of Reviewers......Page 4
Table of Contents......Page 6
Detailed Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgment......Page 18
Computer Support in E-Collaborative Learning-By-Doing Environments......Page 20
Collaborative Knowledge Construction in Virtual Learning Environments: A Good Practice Example of Designing Online Courses in Moodle......Page 44
Constructing a Sense of Community in a Graduate Educational Setting Using a Web 2.0 Environment......Page 65
Collaborative Knowledge Construction with Web Video Conferencing: A Work Based Learning Approach......Page 104
Supporting Case-Based Learning Through a Collaborative Authoring System......Page 118
Knowledge Access and Interaction Evolution in Virtual Learning Communities......Page 132
E-Collaboration Between People and Technological Boundary Objects: A New Learning Partnership in Knowledge Construction......Page 152
From Instructional Design to Setting up Pedagogical Infrastructures: Designing Technology-Enhanced Knowledge Creation......Page 188
Challenges with Knowledge Construction in an E-learning Environment......Page 205
E-Learning as a Socio-Cultural System......Page 221
Compilation of References......Page 238
About the Contributors......Page 270
Index......Page 276