Model Building for Conceptual Change

David Jonassen; Johannes Strobel; Joshua Gottdenker

Interactive Learning Environments Vol. 13, No. 1 (2005) pp. 15–37

Conceptual change is a popular, contemporary conception of meaningful learning. Conceptual change describes changes in conceptual frameworks (mental models or personal theories) that learners construct to comprehend phenomena. Different theories of...

Collaborative Knowledge Building: A Learning Module in Shadow netWorkspace Learning System

Hsinyi Peng; Yimei Lin; Joshua S Gottdenker

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2002 (2002) pp. 1133–1137

Shadow netWorkspace(SNS) is designed and developed as a free, open source, network-based work environment specifically for use in K-12 schools to support schools and learning. In this paper, we describe a learning module utilizing features of SNS...

Topics: Networking Technologies, Research Methods, Computer Sciences, Educational Technology, Learning Objects