Intelligent Tutoring and Pedagogical Experience Manipulation in Virtual Learning Environments
Abstract
Modern virtual environments provide new and exciting opportunities for the learning of complex skills. Rapid progress in the commercial game industry, as well as in computer graphics, animation, and artificial intelligence research, has produced immersive environments capable of simulating experiences that can closely resemble reality. Educators and learning scientists have grasped these opportunities, motivated by the prospect of providing safe, authentic practice environments for real-world skills not previously within the scope of computer-supported learning. Greater realism and more immersion seem to be in harmony modern instructional design methodologies and theories of learning, such as situated learning (Brown, Collins, and Duguid, 1989):We argue that approaches such as cognitive apprenticeship that embed learning in activity and make deliberate use of the social and physical context are more inline with the understanding of learning and cognition that is emerging from research (p. 32).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2009
- Accession Number
- AD1171133
Entities
People
- H. Clifford Lane
- W. L. Johnson
Organizations
- University of Southern California