Interactive Learning Environments

By Darcy Hampton

Definition A The American Heritage

Dictionary of the English Language (4th ed. 2000) provides the computer science definition as of or relating to a program that responds to user activity.

A similar definition is provided by webopedia.com as it describes interactive as accepting input from a human.

Focus On learning

through interaction with the computer

Types of Interactive Learning Environments

Educational Games Educational Simulations Inquiry Projects Virtual Field trips and labs

Educational Games Quia

www.quia.com Neuroscience

for kids http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/chgames.html

Educational Simulations Virtual labs

and simulations

http://www.hazelwood.k12.mo.us/~grichert/sciweb/applets.html

Virtual Field Trips Exploratorium www.exploratorium.edu/

Koshland http://www.koshland-science-museum.org/index.jsp

Online Inquiry Projects WISE http://wise.berkeley.edu/

NASA’s Quest Projects http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/

Online Labs The Biology Place http://www.phschool.com/science/biology_place/labbench/

Virtual Courseware http://www.sciencecourseware.org/GLOL/

References http://www.elearning-reviews.org/topics/technology/intera

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