CIEL: Integrating Approaches for Inquiry Learning

Wouter van Joolingen (1)

1 Faculty of Behavioral Sciences

The world is changing and changing fast. Contemporary students live in a world full of impressions, fast changing viewpoints, ubiquitous information, zapping behaviour, play and joy etc. They use facilities such as MSN, on-line gaming, and SMS. They expect a seamless access to information, mostly in a social context. At the same time we see drastic changes in learning environments, moving them to rich, multi-media, collaborative, experiential, and individualised environments. Though starting from different angles, these two developments seem to come together. Modern learning environments such as WISE (Slotta, 2004) or BioLogica (Hickey, Kindfield, Horwitz, & Christie, 2003) combine all kinds of opportunities to learn and communicate in a facilitative setting.

Keywords: learning environments

Domains: Technology for Human Learning

Wouter van Joolingen. CIEL: Integrating Approaches for Inquiry Learning. Kaleidoscope Convergence Workshop, 2006, Amsterdam, Netherlands. pp.31-36. ⟨hal-00190509⟩