Computers in Teaching and Learning


CITAL - Pedagogy and Theory

This section contains pointers to sites and articles mainly concerned with the various pedagogic theories and their relationship to the technology. All of these sites and articles hugely relate to the Cital web site and Pedagogy and Theory.

Sites for Pedagogy and Theory

Adventures in Learning - Learning Theories
A site which explains some of the leading theories

Constructivism
A collection of links to articles on Constructivist Pedagogy

Learning Paradigms
A collection of links from Donald Darrow.

Constructivism, Instructivism, and Related Sites
A list of Constructism and Instrutism courtesy of emtech  

ILTweb v.6.0.1
The Institute for Learning Technologies at Columbia University is a major centre for Constructivist Pedagogy
 
Learning & Instruction: The TIP Database
a large database containing brief summaries of 50 major theories of learning and instruction. The theories can also be accessed by learning domains and concepts. A most valuable resource!
 
CMKA: A different view
Are you looking for information on the Conversational Model for Knowledge Apprenticeship, CMKA? Well, you have found it.
   
Scaffolding design skills
Scaffolding the development of skills in the design process of educational media through hyperlinked Units of Learning Material (ULMs).
 
The "No Significant Difference" Phenomenon
This site provides selected entries from the book, "The No Significant Difference Phenomenon" as reported in 355 research reports, summaries and papers -- a comparative research bibliography on technology for distance education.
 
Learning Paradigms
Currently, while confronting our external challenges, we are constrained by an institutional design problem. With our current design, it is not possible to increase productivity without a corresponding threat to quality.
 
Instructional Design Model
Instructional systems design model. The activity of planning and designing for instruction.
 
What are Student Learning Outcomes?
Manitoba's new curriculum frameworks documents are based on student learning outcomes.
 
AITs Teaching & Learning Links
A Collection of Links for Technology In Support Of Higher Education Teaching & Learning from the University of Maryland
 
Learning with software
These pages are intended to provide readers with opportunities and information resources to trace their own threads in and around what is quite a tenacious subject - the learning theories and teaching practices that accompany and underlie the educational use of software, at all levels of schooling.
 
The cognitive apprenticeship model in a technologically rich learning environment: interpreting the learning interaction
A study by Sanna Järvelä of the University of Oulu .
 
Center for Problem Based Learning Core
A site about problem based learning.

Alternative Modes of Teaching and Learning
A site describing how we can use different techniques in teaching and learning.  

National Centre to Improve the Tools of Educators
A web site aimed at educators to improve their skills and tools.

PROBLEM BASED LEARNING
A web site designed to help and teach problem based learning  - by Howard Barrows.
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The Problem Based Learning Curriculum at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine
A web page dedicated to problem learning. The page includes advantages, group processes, Curriculum Organization and a large number of resources.
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Situated Learning and Situated Cognition
A Brief Summary of WWW-based Resources. A good resource web site!

FDTL Home Page
Designed to enable colleagues in higher education to find out about FDTL (Fund for the Developement of Teaching and Learning) projects.

Using Assessment to Improve Learning Outcomes
Presented by Marcia C. Linn of the University of California, Berkeley.

The Theory Page

A useful page consisting of many a links of learning theories.
The Web: Design for Active Learning - ATL
This handbook will present the idea of interactivity as it applies to a cohesive design including high interface, content, and instructional design. Taken from University of Alberta.

PBL PBL PBL! Problem Based Learning (PBL) Home Page - Queen's University, Faculty of Medicine
This site contains a PBL Handbook, Web version and a PBL Handbook, downloadable version.

Australian Problem Based Learning Network
The Network's newsletter PROBE is a forum for the sharing of ideas and news about problem-based learning. Network members contribute to the maintenance of a comprehensive problem-based learning bibliography. The network also organises a bi-annual international conference on problem-based learning. PROBLARC is the distributor for the PBL conference proceedings and publications.

Problem Based Learning Initiative - core page
The PBLI is a group of teachers and researchers involved in PBL and active in faculty educational development. They are able to provide education, consultation and support to teachers and organizations in any discipline, profession, training program or educational level either involved in PBL or interested in adopting PBL into their teaching or training programs.

UK PBL Web site
This site is hosted by Coventry University but supported by the LTSN Generic Centre. The aim of the web site is to provide up to date and innovative trigger materials together with information about where problem-based learning is being used in the UK.

Project On The Effectiveness Of Problem Based Learning
This site plans to actively engage with the teaching and learning community about PEPBL and Problem Based Learning (PBL) in general.

Active Learning Site Home Page
This site supports the scholarship of teaching by providing research-based resources designed to help faculty use active learning successfully in college and university classrooms.

Technology and Engaged Learning Bibliography
This page has a bibliography of research and resources on technology and engaged learning.

Active Learning
Full text of Active Learning definitions.

Situated Learning & Situated Cognition
A brief summary of WWW-based resources - Waseda University.

Cognitive Approaches to Instructional Design

Apage primarily consisting of information related to cognitive approaches to instructional design.

Mediated Conversations for Cognitive Apprenticeship, MCCA
This page has information on the Conversational model for Knowledge Apprenticeship

Problem Based Learning Resources:
Here are some good PBL sites that lead to others

Papers on Pedagogy and Theory
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Teaching and Learning on the Net
A list of papers compiled by Martin Ryder of University of Colorado at Denver School of Education, who has also compiled an excellent collection of papers and articles on

Instructional Design Models
The activity of planning and designing for instruction. Also, a discipline associated with the activity.

ILTweb: LiveText: Readings
a collection of papers from the same site

Reeves: Evaluating What Really Matters in Computer Based Education
This paper describes fourteen pedagogical dimensions of computer based education (CBE)

Using Assessment to Improve Learning Outcomes
Presented at the American Educational Research Association meeting, April 15, 1998, San Diego, California in a symposium entitled Alternative Models for Using Technology to Support Standards Based Student Assessment chaired by Edys S. Quellmalz of SRI International. This paper builds on a paper presented at the National Academy of Sciences in February, 1997.
 
Beyond Knowledge and Competence -towards a framework for professional education
A paper from Stan Lester.

Power and Pedagogy
Chapter Five - Making a New Educational System
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Effective Learning and the Virtual Learning Environment
A keynote address by Mark Stiles taken from the EUNIS 2000 Congress, "Towards Virtual Universities"
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See also an outline of earlier work on the COSE Pedagogic Approach and Deconstruction Model.

AJET - Analysing cognition's in a hypermedia learning environment
A paper by David Frampton
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Learners and Learning
These pages are largely about theories of learning in a post school educational context.

Learning and Mathematics - Cognitive Apprenticeship
A Maths Forum: by Collins, Brown and Newman.

RCD - Relate-Create-Donate
A paper based on the teaching/learning philosophy for the cyber-generation by  Ben Shneiderman

ILTweb : DESIGNING EFFECTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS
A paper made by Sue E. Berryman which describes effective learning environments.

The Role of Virtual Learning Environments in the Online Delivery of Staff Development
This page has an article on the above subject.
 
A teaching/learning philosophy for the cyber-generation
This site lists much information on theories, philosophy and facts regarding the use of computers for teaching and learning.

CC: A Scalable Model of Collaborative Learning
This paper describes an experimental model of collaborative Web-teaching using net seminars to train teachers, who in turn, create NetCourses for their virtual students in a Virtual High School (VHS) Cooperative.
 
Education Uses of Information Technology
Presentation by Dr Dorothy Frayer for the AAHE TLTR Information Technology Conference, Colleges of Worcester Consortium, Fitchburg, Massachusetts April, 1997.

AJET 10(2) Frampton (1994)
The paper describes the theoretical basis and methodology for research seeking to identify higher order cognitive activity occurring in students' information seeking and learning tasks with hypermedia.
 
PAPERS
Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems April 13-18, 1996
 
horizon.unc.e...gy/Frayer.asp
A paper on Creating a New World of Learning Possibilities Through Instructional Technology. - Dr. Dorothy A.Frayer & Lynda Barner West
 
Professional learning and the on line discussion
This paper explores the growing interest in professional development through asynchronous electronic discussion. It presents an excerpt from within a recent forum on telematic learning and analyses ways of initiating discussion; styles of messages and learning through on line discussion.- Michael Hammond
 
Visualizing
Position Paper for National Science Foundation & European Commission meeting on human computer interaction research agenda, June 1-4, 1999, Toulouse, France. - Ben Shneiderman
 
ILTweb: Power & Pedagogy: Chapter5
Institute of Learning Technologies. Power and Pedagogy: Transforming Education through Information Technology. - Robbie McClintock
Learning Theories
This chapter takes a brief look at the two major categories of learning theories (behaviorism and constructivism), the major theorists within those categories, and the implications of those theories for the use of multimedia and communications and information technology for learning purposes.
- By Darren Forrester & Noel Jantzie
 
Beyond Knowledge and Competence - Stan Lester
Beyond Knowledge and Competence towards a framework for professional education by Stan Lester, Capability 1 (3) 44-52, March 1995.
 
Using Assessment to Improve Learning Outcomes
Using assessment to improve learning outcomes: experiences from the knowledge integration environment (KIE) and the computer as learning partner (CLP). - Marie C.Linn, University of California, Berkeley.
 
Situated Cognition
An excellent paper on Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. - John Seely Brown, Allan Collins, Paul Duguid.
 
Article -- Effectiveness of Cognitive Apprenticeship
Effectiveness of cognitive apprenticeship instructional methods in college automotive technology classrooms.
 
Frayer: Creating a New World of Learning Possibilities
A paper showing how Recent technological advances have created the possibility of new ways of teaching and learning. - Dr. Dorothy A.Frayer & Lynda Barner West
AJET 15(3) Sims (1999) - interactivity - strategies for learner-designer communication
An Australian Journal of Educational Technology. - Rod Sims
 
New Directions in the Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Educational Technology
The Secretary's Conference on Educational Technology-1999. - Walter F. Heinecke, Ph.D, Laura Blasi Natalie Milman, and Lisa Washington Curry School of Education, University of Viginia.

A review of the research and identification of research gaps on the impact and effective uses of online tools and resources in the classroom
A report covering the emerging contribution of online resources and tools to classroom learning and teaching. Report submitted to SchoolNet / Rescol. 

TACT ITFORUM Paper 18
A paper on engaging learning, the University of New South Wales. - Clark N. Quinn.

Bob Jensen
Bob Jensen's threads on assessment and education technologies. Trinity University

Learning in 2002
This site contains research on the future of learning and business. - Internet Time Team

Mark Stiles
m.j.stiles@staffs.ac.uk

Last Updated: 4th june 2003
By David Shalloe