Search results for author:"Jan Herrington"
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Exploring the pedagogical foundations of museum exhibitions and their websites
Jan Herrington; Gwyn Brickell; Barry Harper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 4143–4151
This paper reports in research conducted in two museums in Australia on the beliefs and pedagogies that influenced the design and development of educational materials on museum websites, both for materials that explicitly accompanied and explained...
Topics: Museums
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Scaffolding Learners in Authentic, Problem Based e-Learning Environments: The "Geography Challenge"
Gwyn Brickell; Jan Herrington
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 22, No. 4 (2006) pp. 531–547
The affordances of online learning technologies have enabled more widespread development of learning environments that facilitate the exploration and solving of complex and realistic problems. In this paper, we describe the design of a real world...
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Scaffolding learners in authentic, problem based e-learning environments: The Geography Challenge
Gwyn Brickell; Jan Herrington
Australasian Journal of Educational Technology Vol. 22, No. 4 (Jan 01, 2006)
The affordances of online learning technologies have enabled more widespread development of learning environments that facilitate the exploration and solving of complex and realistic problems. In this paper, we describe the design of a real world...
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Technology-supported collaboration on field-based authentic tasks
Gwyn Brickell; Jan Herrington; Barry Harper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2005 (Jun 27, 2005) pp. 1961–1968
The traditional 'work-sheet' approach has long been a favoured method for the conduct of field trips and excursions for school students. Such an approach fails to capitalise on constructivist theory and more specifically, collaborative learning,...
Topics: Collaboration, Schools, Educational Technology, Students
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A Technology Supported Visitation Program to the Sydney Olympic Park: Learner Challenges and Teacher Support
Gwyn Brickell; Lori Lockyer; Jan Herrington; Gordon Brown; Barry Harper
World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2004 (2004) pp. 4683–4689
This paper outlines the development and initial implementation of a technology-supported visitation program for the site of the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney Australia – the Sydney Olympic Park. The site is embedded with rich content and offers a...
Topics: Learning Objects, Games