Interactive Learning

About: Interactive Learning is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5746 publications have been published within this topic receiving 83356 citations.

Interactive Multimodal Learning Environments Special Issue on Interactive Learning Environments: Contemporary Issues and Trends

Abstract: What are interactive multimodal learning environments and how should they be designed to promote students’ learning? In this paper, we offer a cognitive–affective theory of learning with media from which instructional design principles are derived. Then, we review a set of experimental studies in which we found empirical support for five design principles: guided activity, reflection, feedback, control, and pretraining. Finally, we offer directions for future instructional technology research.

Learning and innovation in organizations and economies

Abstract: 1. Purpose and Scope PART I: BUILDING-BLOCKS 2. Management and Organization 3. Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Competence 4. Evolution 5. Institutions 6. Knowledge 7. Language PART II: CONSTRUCTION 8. A Theory of Interactive Learning 9. A Heuristic of Discovery 10. An Elaboration with Scripts 11. Integration and Disintegration PART III: APPLICATION 12. Innovation Systems 13. Organizational Learning 14. Conclusions and Further Research 15. Summary

Animated Pedagogical Agents: Face-to-Face Interaction in Interactive Learning Environments

Abstract: Recent years have witnessed the birth of a new paradigm for learning environments: animated pedagogical agents. These lifelike autonomous characters cohabit learning environments with students to create rich, face-to-face learning interactions. This opens up exciting new possibilities; for example, agents can demonstrate complex tasks, employ locomotion and gesture to focus students' attention on the most salient aspect of the task at hand, and convey emotional responses to the tutorial situation. Animated pedagogical agents offer great promise for broadening the bandwidth of tutorial communication and increasing learning environments' ability to engage and motivate students. This article sets forth the motivations behind animated pedagogical agents, describes the key capabilities they offer, and discusses the technical issues they raise. The discussion is illustrated with descriptions of a number of animated agents that represent the current state of the art.