Cognitive Tools for Learning
By: edited by Piet A. M. Kommers, David H. Jonassen, J. Terry Mayes, Alcindo Ferreira
Contributors: Jonassen, David H.; Mayes, J. Terry; Ferreira, Alcindo
Series: NATO ASI Series, Series F: Computer and Systems Sciences -- 81; NATO ASI series -- 81.
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Berlin, Heidelberg
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
ISBN-13: 9783642772221
Other titles: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Study Institute on Mindtools: Cognitive Technologies for Modeling Knowledge, held in Enschede, The Netherlands, July 4-10, 1990
Description: Hypermedia technology needs a creative approach from the outset in the design of software to facilitate human thinking and learning. This book opens a discussion of the potential of hypermedia and related approaches to provide open exploratory learning environments. The papers in the book are based on contributions to a NATO Advanced Research Workshop held in July1990 and are grouped into six sections: - Semantic networking as cognitive tools, - Expert systems as cognitive tools, - Hypertext as cognitive tools, - Collaborative communication tools, - Microworlds: context-dependent cognitive tools, - Implementing cognitive tools. The book will be valuable for those who design, implement and evaluate learning programs and who seek to escape from rigid tactics like programmed instruction and behavioristic approaches. The book presents principles for exploratory systems that go beyond existing metaphors of instruction and provokes the reader to think in a new way about the cognitive level of human-computer interaction.