OBJECTIVES Because of the complexity of clinical situations, traditional didactic education is limited in providing opportunity for student-patient interaction. Situated e-learning can enhance learners' knowledge and associated abilities through a variety of activities. Healthcare providers who interact with virtual patients in designed situations may avoid unnecessary risks and encounters with...

Background. Complex, dynamic systems require flexible workforces with skills and attitudes responding to the dynamic work environment. Traditional, formal classroomoriented learning approaches often do not sufficiently support the development of such skills and attitudes and do not provide situated learning activities. Aim and Method. We propose the concept of Microgames as an active, situated ...

From the perspective of constructivist theories, emotion results from learning assemblies of relevant perceptual, cognitive, interoceptive, and motor processes in specific situations. Across emotional experiences over time, learned assemblies of processes accumulate in memory that later underlie emotional experiences in similar situations. A neuroimaging experiment guided participants to experi...

This paper considers the work of Martin Heidegger and its relation to situated cognition. The motivation for the paper springs from the perceived misconception that many educators have on situated cognition by applying situated learning strategies in a dualistic orientation, whereas situated cognition is fundamentally relativist (non-dualistic) in epistemology. Hence, we felt that the foundatio...

In Beratungssituationen, besonders in komplexen Domänen, wie beispielsweise der Finanzbranche, ist ein effektiver Wissenstransfer vom Dienstleister zum Kunden heute zwingend notwendig. Bis heute wird dieser Wissensaustausch aber weder strukturiert forciert, noch durch die heute eingesetzten (IT)-Tools unterstützt. Aufbauend auf dem Konzept des situierten und erfahrungsbasierten Lernens leiten w...

Situated learning, in which knowledge is gained in the context of authentic problem situations, can help learners acquire experts’ “tricks of the trade,” while mastering program content. A situated learning framework guided the design of a self-study Internet-based continuing education program on using the Internet as a drug information resource. A written survey and semi-structured interviews ...