Connected learning ecologies as an emerging opportunity through Cosplay

Improving child health care through federal policy: an emerging opportunity.

Policymakers considering the 2009 reauthorization of the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) have an opportunity to strengthen federal provisions to promote primary, preventive, and developmental child health care. Several pieces of legislation introduced in 2007 focused on aspects of child health quality, but none placed a specific emphasis on primary care. This issue brief descr...

Emerging knowledge through an emergent perspective: High-school students’ inquiry, exploration and learning in Connected Chemistry

We investigate students’ strategies in exploring computer models and the way these relate to the underlying mathematical behavior of the model, and to prior knowledge in the domain. In the Modeling Across the Curriculum project (Gobert et al, 2003), we enable students’ exploration of computer models that are embedded in a supporting script. The Connected Chemistry environment (Levy, Novak & Wil...

Pathways toward Playful Learning: Games as Learning Ecologies

Emerging learning ecologies as a new challenge and essence for e-learning. The case of doctoral e-researchers

This chapter discusses the manifold ways in which the notion of ‘ecology’ and ‘learning ecology’ are adopted to interpret digitally-mediated educational contexts, to account for e-learning in higher education and to refer to emergent forms of networked environments and related learning practices. Moreover, the chapter provides a brief discussion on a research case focusing on the investigation ...

Teaching-Learning Ecologies: Mapping the Environment to Structure Through Action

Although organizational theorists have long argued that environments shape organizational structures, they have paid little attention to the processes by which the shaping occurs. This paper examines these processes by showing how environments shape teaching and learning activities, which in turn shape structure. Observational field data from structural engineering groups in three firms and har...