Effective learning of a complex and content-rich cognitive skill takes place most effectively through its rehearsal in an environment that, as closely as possible, simulates the real-world environment in which that skill would be put into practical use (hence, for example, flight simulators for trainee pilots). Multimedia and virtual reality can model such environments.
Predictor: Hutchison, Chris
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article, “The ‘ICP OnLine’: Jeux sans frontires on the CyberCampus,” from the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Chris Hutchison of the School of Information Systems, Kingston University, discusses education online. He lists three parameters “along which successful learning may be measured.” The third of the three is:”Experiential Learning – the extent to which the learning content is embedded in the ‘context-of-doing.’ Effective learning of a complex and content-rich cognitive skill takes place most effectively through its rehearsal in an environment that, as closely as possible, simulates the real-world environment in which that skill would be put into practical use (hence, for example, flight simulators for trainee pilots). Multimedia and virtual reality can model such environments.Ó
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Getting, Sharing Information
Subtopic: E-learning
Name of publication: Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
Title, headline, chapter name: The ‘ICP OnLine’: Jeux sans frontires on the CyberCampus
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
www.ascusc.org/jcmc/vol1/issue1/hutchison/CHRISR.html
This data was logged into the Elon/Pew Predictions Database by: Guarino, Jennifer Anne