2005 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Bridging the Contextual Distance: The e-CASE Learning Environment for Supporting Students’ Context Awareness
verfasst von : Stavros N. Demetriadis, Pantelis M. Papadopoulos, Ioannis A. Tsoukalas
Erschienen in: Advances in Informatics
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Supporting students’ awareness of the complex way that contextual issues affect knowledge application in authentic situations is a critical instructional mission and can lead to improved problem solving in the workplace. In this work we present the design of e-CASE (Context Awareness Supporting Environment), which is a case based learning environment for supporting instruction in the domain of software development. In designing e-CASE we employ a model for context which further guides the use of script and narrative control techniques as external representations for enhancing students’ context awareness. Our system applies an appropriate metadata scheme for connecting various pieces of information and creating crossing paths for the learner, in the web of authentic application cases. It also provides functionality for updating and extending its content allowing people from the workplace to become content providers. Thus, we argue, e-CASE can help bridging the contextual distance, supporting the development of an extended learning community by establishing flexible and instructionally efficient links between the traditional educational settings and the workplace.