Technology-Based Learning Environments

Editors' Introduction.- I Design Principles for Learning Environments.- From cognitive theory to educational technology.- Toward the integration of computers in powerful learning environment.- Learning with computer-based exploratory environments in science and mathematics.- Modelling, a means for expressing thinking: ESRC Tools for exploratory learning research programme.- Knowledge application in complex systems.- Internalization and Learning Environments.- Learning: From interactivity to cooperation.- Peer interactions among adolescents using computer networks in an international role playing exercise.- Implementing a model of cognitive development in an intelligent learning environment.- Differences in patterns: Studying computer enhanced learning environments.- II Using Educational Technology to Promote Conceptual Change in the Physical Sciences.- Multimedia environments for enhancing science instruction.- The Mars Mission Challenge: A generative problem-solving school science environment.- Studying and teaching model-based reasoning in science.- Promoting studies on conceptual change.- Diagnosing students' physics knowledge and remediating learning difficulties: A computer-based approach.- Development of a learning environment for basic electricity.- Development of an information system to help conceptual change concerning the human nervous system.- Analysis of physics knowledge for learning environments.- Integrating computer software tools in learning environments for meaningful learning.- Ecoland: A hypermedia prototype for environmental education.- III Technology-Based Learning Environments for Knowledge Acquisition in Mathematics and in Language.- Multimedia environments for enhancing student learning in mathematics.- Tutoring mathematical text problems:From cognitive task analysis to didactic tools.- Less can be more: Unintelligent tutoring based on psychological theories and experimentation.- The use of an intermediate model for solving word problems.- Qualitative analysis of children's learning of programming in the context of a developing culture of open-ended project work in a primary school.- Computer-assisted learning to read and write: A three-year longitudinal study.- Computer facilitations of the writing process.- Flow driven English course.- IV Taking into Consideration the Needs of the Learner.- Investigating the use of knowledge profiles in a flexible learning environment: Analyzing students' prior knowledge states.- Knowledge and learning skill student model.- Semantic networks of action.- Representation systems in mathematics and science: The era of computers.- Use of graphics in computer aided learning in chemistry.- Effects of visible link-types on learning in hypertext systems.- Knowledge construction and acquisition in a hypermedia environment customized for learning purposes.- Hypertext learning environments and epistemic beliefs: A preliminary investigation.- Investigating motivation and cooperation in computer-assisted learning: A pilot study.