We take situated learning as the starting point for designing a training tool for an undergraduate course on conceptual modeling for information system design. The purpose of the tool is to create training scenarios that provide the same kind of problems and complexity which conceptual modelers face in the 'real world'. School training of conceptual modeling has mostly consisted of problems of ...

Learning in clinical practice can be characterised as situated learning because students learn by performing tasks and solving problems in an environment that reflects the multiple ways in which their knowledge will be put to use in their future professional practice. Collins et al. introduced cognitive apprenticeship as an instructional model for situated learning comprising six teaching metho...

Instructional planning is an essential professional activity often used by teachers. However, some characteristics of existing university-based teacher education programs may hamper pre-service teachers’ learning of instructional planning. Thus, this study adopts the cognitive apprenticeship as a theoretical foundation to construct a web-based learning model that integrates expert teachers and ...

This approach is learner centered and focuses on creating supportive Cognitive theories of learning can help the instructional designer achieve a particular. In the same year, Brown, Collins, and Newman also developed the Cognitive Apprenticeship In practice, from an instructional designer's point of view, this can be is an obvious application of the Inquiry Learning approach, based on which. P...

Many nurse executives and managers have had to learn financial management skills, including planning, controlling, implementing, and analyzing departmental budgets, on the job. In today's healthcare environment, organizations are becoming aware of the value of hiring nurse executives who can speak the financial language and employ financial skills to operate their areas. As more and more nurses...

The Science Literacy through Science Journalism (SciJourn) project aims to reframe the discussion of science literacy for citizenship, and explore how science journalism practices can be used to inform a cognitive apprenticeship that increases the science literacy of participants. This symposium features four paper presentations that report on the progress of the SciJourn project. We report on ...

PURPOSE This study describes the typical case of problem-based learning (PBL) application at the Faculty of Medicine of the Université de Montréal and its analysis from the perspective of situated cognition. METHOD I used a typical case study to determine the general model of PBL application and performed my analysis by a global processing of information, against to the conceptual model of si...