Sociocultural theories of learning such as Wenger and Lave’s situated learning have been suggested as alternatives to cognitive theories of learning like constructivism. This article examines situated learning within the context of computer science (CS) education. Situated learning accurately describes some CS communities like open-source software development, but it is not applicable to other ...

This paper depicts the interrelation between situated learning and learning management from an organisational and personal perspective. Based on this introduction we show how educational metadata can be used for approaches of situated learning and how we can take care of learning approaches and contexts using situated and context specific metadata and rolebased models.

a community of practice may shape and reshape the identity of members of the community through providing them with situated learning or learning environment. this study, therefore, is to clarify the salient learning-based features of the language teaching community of practice that might formulate the identity of language teachers. to this end, the study examined how learning situations in two ...

Situated learning is a very effective method in learning a language. Applying the multimedia technology to the World Wide Web (WWW) for situated learning is a widely discussed topic and has been extensively researched in recent years. This paper has analyzed the requirements for situated learning and has built an architecture that can help to support linguistic situated learning over the Intern...