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Handling Complexity in Learning Environments Theory and Research

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ISBN-10: 0080449867

ISBN-13: 9780080449869

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Authors: Jan Elen, Richard E. Clark

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Handling complexity in learning environments: theory and research What do we mean when we say that "learning environments are increasingly complex"? What do we know about the cognitive processing that occurs during complex learning? How can we provide effective instructional support for students who must learn and apply complex knowledge? These questions, and related issues, have fascinated educators and educational researchers for many years and are they are the focus of this book. As a tribute to Joost Lowyck, professor educational technology at the K.U.Leuven, eminent scholars from around the globe have contributed to a far reaching analysis of complexity in learning environments…    
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List price: $132.99
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 311
Size: 6.78" wide x 9.52" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Currently a professor of Educational Psychology and Technology in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California, where he directs a doctoral program in Human Performance at Work. He was the 2002 recipient of the prestigious Thomas F. Gilbert Professional Achievement Award by the International Society for Performance Improvement. He has served as a performance improvement specialist in a great variety of organizations in North and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia in the past two decades. For two years he served as Program Board Member and lecturer in Organizational Psychology at Dublin City University in Ireland, and he is Professeur Associ� at the…    

List of Figures
List of Tables
Contributors
Preface
Introduction: Setting the Scene: Complexity and Learning Environments
How the Human Cognitive System Deals with Complexity
Motivational Challenges Experienced in Highly Complex Learning Environments
Mental Models and Complex Problem Solving: Instructional Effects
The Social Complexity in Establishing and Sharing Information Resources
The Culture of the Mathematics Classroom: A Complex Determinant of Students' Learning
Scaffolds for Scientific Discovery Learning
Coping with Complexity in Multimedia Learning
Collaboration Load
Balancing Support for Student Learning
The use of Instructional Interventions: Lean Learning Environments as a Solution for a Design Problem
Performance Assessment and Learning Task Selection in Environments for Complex Learning
Meeting Challenges to Researching Learning from Instruction by Increasing the Complexity of Research
System Theoretic Designs for Researching Complex Events
The Systemic vs. Analytic Study of Complex Learning Environments
Hypothesized Performance on Complex Tasks as a Function of Scaled Instructional Strategies
Conclusion: When Less Is More: Research and Theory Insights about Instruction for Complex Learning
Author Index
Subject Index