COFALE: an authoring system for creating Web-based adaptive learning environments supporting cognitive flexibility
(2007) Journal of Computers — Vol. 2, n° 5, p. 27-37 (2007)
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- Constructivism is a learning theory that states that people learn by actively constructing their own knowledge, based on prior knowledge. A significant number of ICT-based constructivist learning systems have been proposed in recent years. A critical problem related to the design and use of this kind of systems has been the lack of a practical means to facilitate the instructional design process. Our research aims to help designing truly constructivist and adaptive learning environments. Our approach is based on a set of operational criteria for certain aspects of constructivism: We use these criteria as a useful pedagogical framework to provide tools and guidelines facilitating the instructional design process. One facet often mentioned as being strongly relevant to constructivism is cognitive flexibility. This paper presents COFALE-a new, domain-independent, and open-source e-learning platform that could be used to build adaptive learning environments supporting cognitive flexibility-and an example of its use: the design of a course on recursion.
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Vu Minh Chieu. (2007). COFALE: an authoring system for creating Web-based adaptive learning environments supporting cognitive flexibility. Journal of Computers, 2(5), 27-37. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/148681 (Original work published 2007)