Interactive Learning Environments

Interactive Learning Environments

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/10494820.asp

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

The journal now begins to broaden its scope to cover technologies such as
Internet, groupware and multimedia and their impact on the fields of
education and training, life-long learning and sharing knowledge in the
global village. 

We welcome articles dealing with courseware and the pedagogic, content, and
engineering issues that impact on learning. The tools and organisational
support required for the authoring of courseware is itself an important
topic which merits closer study. We invite evaluation of the impact of open
and frequent communication among learners within knowledge building
classrooms, the role of peer tutoring and mentoring in computer mediated
learning and the place of self assessment and peer assessment.

The virtual classroom may use courseware but is primarily an environment for
student-student and student-teacher interaction, and the appropriate systems
for particular students and learning material remains to be delineated. The
journal welcomes analyses of the role of schools, governments, or
corporations in developing virtual schools and universities that transcend
space, time, and organizational boundaries.

The journal aims to cover the following themes:

Individual learning
    * Innovative learning situations
    * Tools for learning and tools for studying learning
    * Increasing the quality and range of learning
    * All forms of life-long learning
    * Cognitive, social, developmental and motivational aspects of how
learning comes about
    * How learners construct knowledge from their on-line experiences
    * Useful forms of on-line tutorial feedback
    * Active and independent learning

Group Activity
    * Informal knowledge exchange networks
    * Participation in on-line discussion
    * Computer supported teamwork projects
    * Collaborative learning processes
    * Peer tutoring and mentoring in computer mediated learning
    * Self assessment and peer assessment in virtual classrooms
    * Interactive video and audio technologies

Social and organizational issues
    * Creating a learning society
    * Accrediting informally acquired knowledge
    * Bringing provisions to women in order to equalize technological access
    * Maintaining cohesiveness in curricula on-line
    * Unbundling of assessment, delivery, and content production
    * The impact of sharing students and teachers across schools

Courseware Production
    * Allowing learners to be the content providers
    * Methods of courseware production
    * The role of teachers and schools in content provision

ISSN Print 1049-4820

Editors:

Professor Masoud Yazdani
Faculty of Art, Media and Design
University of the West of England
Bower Ashton Campus
Kennel Lodge Road 
Bristol BS3 2JT 
UK 

Tel.: +44 (0)117 966 0222
Fax: +44 (0)117 976 3946

Professor Roy Rada
Director of Flexible Masters
Department of Information Systems
University of Maryland
Baltimore County 
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
USA 

Tel.: +1 (0)410 455 2645
Fax: +1 (0)410 455 1073

Content available by subscription.

Current Issue: Volume 12, Number 3 / December 2004

Date: 7 September 2005