The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between Extension employees' learning styles and their performance in three different types of learning environments: traditional face-to-face instruction, minimally interactive online instruction, and highly interactive, multimedia-rich online instruction. Keith Golay's Learning Pattern Assessment and a ten-question post-test were u...

As part of their learning process, students often need to understand and interact with real world processes. Traditional learning activities such as field trips, site visits, videos, visiting speakers and live interviews have been used to achieve this. Because of various practical, legal and political issues, such activities can be difficult or even impossible to organise. E-learning can play a...

Narrative-centered learning environments offer significant promise for promoting interactive learning experiences that are both effective and engaging. Models of narrative generation and reasoning can balance the motivational and pedagogical aspects of narrative-centered learning interactions. Affect recognition and affect expression models are useful for shaping students’ affective trajectorie...

Different web-based learning environments The web gives educators the possibility to integrate proven as well as new methods of teaching. From mail-based doit-yourself courses to interactive audioand video conferencing – the web has the potential to integrate all. In webbased learning environments, the classroom needs not be further away than the nearest Internet-connected PC. Many different de...

This article introduces medium-based design—an approach to creating exploratory learning environments using the method of extending a medium. First, the characteristics of exploratory learning environments and medium-based design are described and grounded in related work. Particular attention is given to extending a medium— medium-based design’s core method. Then, the product and process of tw...

In recent years there has been significant growth in the use of 3D virtual worlds for e-learning and distance education. These immersive environments offer the ability to create complex, highly interactive simulations using in-world modelling and scripting tools. Virtual learning environments support teaching and learning in an educational context, offering the functionality to manage the prese...

Recent years have seen a growing interest in interactive narrative systems that dynamically adapt story experiences in response to users’ actions, preferences, and goals. However, relatively little empirical work has investigated runtime models of user knowledge for informing interactive narrative adaptations. User knowledge about plot scenarios, story environments, and interaction strategies i...

Narrative-centered learning environments comprise a class of gamebased learning environments that embed problem solving in interactive stories. A key challenge posed by narrative-centered learning is dynamically tailoring story events to enhance student learning. In this paper, we investigate the impact of a data-driven tutorial planner on students’ learning processes in a narrative-centered le...

Tangible interfaces and mixed-reality environments have potential to bring together the advantages of physical and virtual environments to improve children's learning and enjoyment. However, there are too few controlled experiments that investigate whether interacting with physical objects in the real world accompanied by interactive feedback may actually improve student learning compared to fl...