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Interactive Learning Environments. By Darcy Hampton. Definition. A The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 2000) provides the computer science definition as of or relating to a program that responds to user activity.
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Interactive Learning Environments By Darcy Hampton
Definition • A The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 2000) provides the computer science definition as of or relating to a program that responds to user activity. • A similar definition is provided by webopedia.com as it describes interactive as accepting input from a human.
Focus • On learning through interaction with the computer
Types of Interactive Learning Environments • Educational Games • Educational Simulations • Inquiry Projects • Virtual Field trips and labs
Educational Games • Quia www.quia.com • Neuroscience for kids http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chgames.html
Educational Simulations • Virtual labs and simulations http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html
Virtual Field Trips • Exploratorium www.exploratorium.edu/ • Koshland http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/index.jsp
Online Inquiry Projects • WISE http://wise.berkeley.edu/ • NASA’s Quest Projects http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
Online Labs • The Biology Place http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/ • Virtual Courseware http://www.sciencecourseware.org/GLOL/
References • http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/technology/interactive-environments/ • http://www.citejournal.org/vol2/iss4/science/article2.cfm • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6VD8-41MJ0MB-3&_user=10&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=4b6d2a75191ff121d609fb68255ab749 • http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a739632156~db=all • http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a750819025~db=all