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Designing To Learn About Complex Systems, Cindy Hmelo, Doug Holton, Janet Kolodner
Designing To Learn About Complex Systems, Cindy Hmelo, Doug Holton, Janet Kolodner
Douglas L Holton
Complex systems are commonly found in natural and physical science. Understanding such systems is often difficult because they may be viewed from multiple perspectives and their analysis may conflict with or extend beyond the range of everyday experience. There are many complex structural, behavioral, and functional relations to understand as well. Design activities, which allow explorations of how systems work, can be an excellent way to help children acquire a deeper, more systemic understanding of such complex domains. We report on a design experiment in which 6th grade children learned about the human respiratory system by designing artificial lungs and …
Designing Animated Simulations And Web-Based Assessments To Improve Engineering Education, Doug Holton, A. Verma
Designing Animated Simulations And Web-Based Assessments To Improve Engineering Education, Doug Holton, A. Verma
Douglas L Holton
Rapid advances in computer technology and the internet have created new opportunities for delivering instruction and revolutionizing the learning environment. This development has been accelerated by the significant reduction in cost of the Internet infrastructure and the easy accessibility of the World-Wide-Web. 'Web-Based Engineering Education: Critical Design and Effective Tools' evaluates the usefulness of advanced learning systems in delivering instructions in a virtual academic environment for different engineering sectors. This reference source aims at providing a deep probe into the most relevant issues in engineering education and digital learning and will offer a survey of how digital engineering education has …