This article illustrates the utility of using virtual environments to transform social interaction
via behavior and context, with the goal of improving learning in digital environments. We first …

The goals of this study are to evaluate a relatively novel learning environment, as well as to
seek greater understanding of why human tutoring is so effective. This alternative learning …

In the twenty-first century, being able to collaborate effectively is important at all ages, in
everyday life, education and work, within and across diverse cultural settings. People are …

The past two decades have witnessed growing interest in argumentation for educational
purposes. Based on distinctions made by several theorists (van Eemeren et al, 1996; …

Learning-by-teaching is a pedagogical approach grossly underused in the education of
engineers at all levels. The existing learning-by-teaching literature across all disciplines was …

As virtual reality (VR) technologies have been increasingly adopted in the educational field,
careful consideration and evaluation of instructional modes to support learning with VR are …

Advancements in technology have brought about new forms of learning and online
instruction that allow communication through virtual representations without physically …

A teachable agent (TA) is an instructional technology that capitalizes on the organizing
metaphor of teaching another, in this case, a computer agent. As one instance, students …

Two studies examined the social basis of self-assessment for learning through the
application of creative computer tools that can help students assess and self-correct their …

If distributed cognition is to become a general analytic frame, it needs to handle more
aspects of cognition than just highly efficient problem solving. It should also handle learning …