Designing Environments for Constructive Learning
By: edited by Thomas M. Duffy, Joost Lowyck, David H. Jonassen, Thomas M. Welsh
Contributors: Lowyck, Joost; Jonassen, David H.; Welsh, Thomas M.
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences -- 105; NATO ASI series -- 105.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9783642780691
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on The Design of Constructivist Learning Environments: Implications for Instructional Design and the Use of Technology, held at the Catholic University Leuven, Belgium, May 14-18, 1991
Description: This book focuses on constructivist pedagogy and the implications of that pedagogy for the principles and strategies of instructional design and for the use of technology in instruction. A constructivist pedagogy emphasizes the "situatedness" of learning. There is always a reason for learning; learning is a tool for accomplishing something else. Our understanding of a concept is based on the context in which it is experienced. Most importantly, that context involves the larger framework orpurpose for engaging in a task. In the first half of this book the authors describe constructivist learning environments and the particular theoretical framework in which they are embedded. The second half of the book focuses on instructional design principles to bederived from constructivism, the implications for the practice of instructional design, including principles for design, and the practical issues of implementing constructivist learning environments.