Product Description: This work selects the most accessible papers on this subject from 20 years of writing by the author on psychology, education, computing, and artificial intelligence. The book may be used as an introduction to educational computing, highlighting primary themes in the use of technology to support education...read more

What do you do with a mountain of video tapes and case study information? How can you make sense of the data and progressively improve your ideas? Current technologies for capturing, analysing, and representing data and knowledge allow the researcher to present, examine, and interpret human behaviour at a level of detail not possible previously.

Product Description: The convergence of interests between advocates of intelligent tutoring systems and those of more exploratory learning environments is being realized in a melding of research programs and implemented systems, exhibited in fact by the chapters collected for this volume.

Product Description: The articles here combine breadth of perspectives with a focus on the field's two major areas of work: learning environments and tutoring systems. The section on learning environments addresses issues of cognitive style, metatheoretic objectives, domain analysis, and a variety of implemented prototype systems: programming by example, Object-orientated Logo and the educational use of constraint based language...read more