Adult Meaning Making In The Undergraduate Classroom

Mobility in Learning: Meaning Making across Classroom and Museum Settings

In this paper I present the design rationale for a work-in-progress mobile learning project titled Gidder: Groups in Digital Dialogue. The design challenge is to support upper secondary school students as they collaboratively interpret artworks across classroom and museum settings using a combination of wiki and mobile phone technologies.

Adult Learners in the Classroom

This chapter begins with an examination of adult learning theories. It follows with a brief overview of selected theories of adult development, including “traditional” theories that emphasize sequential and psychological development and alternative frameworks that are more concerned with the sociocultural context of development. Next I briefly review studies examining adults as learners in the ...

Meaning Making in VMT

Meaning making is central to the interactions that take place in CSCL settings. The collaborative construction of shared meaning is a complex process that has not previously been analyzed in detail despite the fact that it is often acknowledged as being the distinguishing element in CSCL. Here, a three-minute excerpt from a discussion among three students is considered in some detail. The stude...

Making Meaning in Computers:

This report describes synthetic ethology, a scientific methodology in which we construct synthetic worlds in which synthetic agents evolve and become coupled to their environment. First we review the motivations for synthetic ethology as an experimental methodology and explain how it can be used to investigate intentionality and meaning, and the mechanisms from which they emerge, with an especi...

Adult Education Quarterly from the Editors: Making Meaning of Meaning Making on Behalf Of: American Association for Adult and Continuing Education