A brief review shows several suggested ways in which cultural historical activity theory has
proved valuable to technology supported learning environments. Three of our own design …

A brief review shows several suggested ways in which cultural historical activity theory has
proved valuable to technology supported learning environments. Three of our own design …

Designers who create computer-based learning experiences for places like museums, out-of-
school programs, and homes face a number of challenges related to the informal nature of …

Using computers as cognitive tools or mindtools has created impact in education since their
introduction in the 1990s. One main characteristic is the notion of learning with computers as …

Analysis of museum learning practice, and related work, have revealed that communication
of historical processes resembles school teaching, eventually hindering children's …

The Winter 2007 issue marks the beginning of the 33 rd Volume of the Canadian Journal of
Learning and Technology. This peer-reviewed journal welcomes papers on all aspects of …

Education is becoming one of the primary targets of the so-called computer and information
revolution because of the many opportunities that it offers to the introduction of computing …

In recent years there has been a dramatically increased awareness of the need and
challenge to design new learning spaces for schools and informal educational contexts (eg …

The contribution of this research is to argue that truly creative patterns for interaction within
cultural heritage contexts must create situations and concepts that could not have been …

Reusing learning objects is as old as retelling a story or making use of libraries and
textbooks, and in electronic form has received an enormous new impetus because of the …