An experiment with conversation theory as a candidate for a meta learning theory.
Barn, Balbir ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7251-5033 and Dexter, Hilary
(2007)
An experiment with conversation theory as a candidate for a meta learning theory.
In:
CATE '07 Proceedings of the 10th IASTED International Conference on Computers and Advanced Technology in Education.
Uskov, Vladimir, ed.
ACTA Press, pp. 115-120.
ISBN 9780889867000.
[Book Section]
Abstract
This paper argues that educational theories are complex and it is their structural complexity that prevents understanding and easy application to learning design. In order to support e-learning, software tools to aid the understanding and application process are more likely to be successful if there is a formal model for describing educational theories -- a computer readable conceptual model which can act as a reference model and provide visual representations of their inherent complex nature. This paper suggests that before it is possible to describe a meta model for learning theories it is necessary to have a more detailed understanding of the nature and form of a meta learning theory. The paper reports on an experiment on using Gordon Pask's Cybernetics based Conversation Theory as a candidate meta learning theory. The paper contributes a UML representation of Conversation Theory and presents experimental comparison data with other theories using the model as the basis for comparison
Item Type: | Book Section |
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Additional Information: | Conference held in Beijing, China on October 08 - 10, 2007. |
Research Areas: | A. > School of Science and Technology A. > School of Science and Technology > Computer Science > SensoLab group |
Item ID: | 5227 |
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Depositing User: | Balbir Barn |
Date Deposited: | 27 Apr 2010 15:07 |
Last Modified: | 17 Apr 2019 11:39 |
URI: | https://eprints.mdx.ac.uk/id/eprint/5227 |
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