Magazine article from our research archive:
|
|
MUD for learning: classification and instruction.(multi-user domain)
- Article from:
-
International Journal of Instructional Media
- Article date:
-
June 22, 2006
- Author:
-
;
|
Copyright informationCOPYRIGHT 2006 Westwood Press, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
INTRODUCTION
The acronym MUD refers to Multi-User Dungeon, Multi-User Domain, or Multi-User Dimension 1 all names for a multiple user platform that supports situational simulation and real-time interaction. Using MUD for learning has been receiving more and more attention in recent years. This phenomenon is rooted in a variety of attributes embedded in MUDs: computer-mediated simulation, community-forming, role-playing, and collaborative construction. In a MUD, varying game situations, from hack-and-sack, puzzle-solving, role-playing, to constructing collaboratively with other players, are supported by computer-simulated sceneries and roles. This platform provides an ...
Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:
|
What's a Wiki? A powerful collaborative tool for teaching and learning....
Multimedia & Internet@Schools;
November 1, 2005 ;
700+ words
......entry is the group's best effort, not any one person's. COLLABORATIVE CONSTRUCTION ... OF KNOWLEDGE In that way, Wikipedia is the poster child for the collaborative construction of knowledge that the new, interactive Web facilitates...
|
|
Help with multimedia projects. (For educators only).
Curriculum Review;
November 1, 2002 ;
126 words
......teachers with proven strategies and ideas for incorporating such projects into the curriculum and promoting cooperative, constructive learning. The DDD-E model--Decide, Design, Develop, Evaluate--helps readers understand every aspect of creating a multimedia project...
|
|
Learning-by-Judging: A Network Learning Environment Based on Peer...
Journal of Interactive Learning Research;
September 22, 2000 ;
700+ words
......the past few years, promising learning theories such as constructive learning and collaborative learning have found new meaning and...called Learning-by-Judging, can be realized to help constructive learning. The proposed environment is a World Wide Web (Web) based...
|
|
Construction survey.(books, software & lit)
Snips;
March 1, 2008 ;
167 words
......publication is based on more than 200 responses from a wide variety of owner types and industries, and reveals that collaborative construction work processes are increasing and that building information modeling usage is accelerating. According to FMI, this...
|
|
Different stages of learning
New Straits Times;
June 25, 2000 ;
514 words
......thinking everything's a game. Enjoy it and praise lavishly when she picks up toys or puts things in their places for you. Constructive learning opportunities include sorting clothes by colour while saying the colour word many times. Also, show your toddler different...
|
|
UK Muslim girls to attend schools sans veils
The Hindustan Times;
March 20, 2007 ;
289 words
......that Muslim girls will have to attend schools without veils to keep them safe and to provide them with an atmosphere of constructive learning. Johnson said that he will publish details of this latest move by the Blair Government in the House of Commons today...
|
|
Back to school with BT click&buy.
M2 Presswire;
August 21, 2003 ;
700+ words
......Encyclopaedia Britannica, 4 Learning (Homework High), Constructive Learning and the BT Learning Centre. This comprehensive range...and revision tips. Each set of notes costs 50 pence. Constructive Learning (www.web-land.net) is an interactive learning publisher...
|
|
DISCIPLINE AND VIOLENCE IN SCHOOLS:GEORGE KRUPANSKI
Congressional Testimony;
March 9, 1999 ;
700+ words
......the 60-70 waking hours a week available to most children) in constructive learning activities there is reason to believe the child will succeed. These constructive learning activities include interacting with knowledgeable adults, leisure...
|
|
Let's hope for a real `education president'
Chicago Sun-Times;
November 9, 1988 ;
499 words
......Each has promised in "indelible ink" to allocate the resources needed to educate every child in America who can absorb constructive learning. Five times during this presidential campaign, I have thought of the Bush and Dukakis promises as I have ridden through...
|
|
Relating art history to what children know: teachers need to provide a...
School Arts;
November 1, 2001 ;
587 words
......connections with new information. Active Learning Teachers need to provide a natural atmosphere in which this active, constructive learning can continue. Children play an active role in the learning process when instruction builds upon, correlates, and extends...
|
 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
|
Constructive learning.
The Birmingham Post (England);
April 11, 2001 ;
64 words
...Black Country-based builder Mansell has won a pounds 360,000 contract to carry out internal refurbishment work on the main hall at the University of Wolverhampton. The company's western region headquarters at Stourbridge is carrying out a similar project worth pounds 430,000 at Cheltenham Ladies'
|
|
Constructive learning for pupils
The Northern Echo;
December 7, 2002 ;
113 words
...COLLEGE students in Darlington have been building bridges in more ways than one. Year seven pupils at Carmel Technology College were given the opportunity to create large-scale structures, with the help of experts. At an event presented by Martin Jennings, of the Cambridge-based Architecture
|
 "Post-Tribune (IN)")
|
ELEMENTARY CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING
Post-Tribune (IN);
November 23, 2000 ;
159 words
...THIS ELECTRONIC VERSION MAY DIFFER SLIGHTLY FROM PRINTED VERSION First-graders Eric Walker and Britany Thompson watch in horror (above) as their bridge crumbles under the weight of four pounds.(PHOTO) (E. JASON WAMBSGANS/POST-TRIBUNE) Second-graders Kim Reppa and Zach Sheehy (left) join their
|
See all results.
Or, try our
Advanced Search.
|