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Using Technology to Assist in Realizing Effective Learning and Instruction: A Principled Approach to the Use of Computers in Collaborative Learning
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This article describes a principled approach to the design of computer-based tools for use in collaborative instruction. We argue that a project should progress through four steps: (a) making explicit the instructional requirements that serve as design goals for the project; (b) performing a detailed study of current educational practice with regard to these goals; (c) developing a specification based on the identified requirements/limitations of the instructional setting and the known capabilities of the technology; and (d) producing an implementation that allows for local adaptation to instructional practice. We propose six principles of effective learning and instruction, which we view to be the critical features of learning in complex and ill-structured fields. Next, a detailed case study is presented based on the preclinical training given to medical students in the first 2 years of medical school. The problems of providing adequate instruction in the preclinical years are described, as is an instructional method known as problem-based learning (PBL) that has been introduced to redress some of these problems. The product of this design process is a set of specifications for technical augmentations that we believe will serve not only the needs of PBL but also those of other methods of instruction that depend on collaborative, case-based, or student-centered learning.
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- Authors
- Koschmann, T. D., Myers, A. C., Feltovich, P. J., & Barrows, H. S.
- Venue
- Journal of the Learning Sciences
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 1994-07
- Volume
- 3
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 227-264
- ISSN
- 1050-8406 (ISSN-L)
- 1532-7809
- OpenAlex
- W1991851461
- Cited by
- 229
- References
- 11
- FWCI
- 30.17
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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