{"pk":33028,"title":"Anchors, Cases, Problems, and Scenarios as Contexts for Learning","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The constructivist paradigm, which views learning as\nan active process in which students participate by\nengaging in activities that facilitate the construction of\ninternal representations, is fast gaining currency as an\ninnovative and effective way to overhaul classroom\ninstruction. One way to promote constructivist\nlearning is to firmly embed the acquisition of\nknowledge in realistic and stimulating contexts that\nchallenge students to explore a variety of issues and\nemploy a variety of their skills. This symposium will\nfocus on four approaches (anchored instruction, casebased\nreasoning, goal-based scenarios, and problembased\nlearning) designed to contextualize learning in\nthis fashion. They do so in different, yet related ways.\nExamples of these approaches, ways in which they are\nsimilar and different, and important concerns regarding\ntheir effects on student learning and performance will\nbe some of the issues that panelists will address. The\npanelists in this symposium are: Ray Bareiss,\nInstitute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern\nUniversity; Cindy Hmelo, Janet Kolodner, and\nHari Narayanan, EduTech Institute, Georgia Institute\nof Technology; Vimla Patel, Center for Cognitive\nScience, McGill University; and Susan Williams.\nSchool of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern\nUniversity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"17","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/039927gj","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Cindy","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Hmelo","name_suffix":"","institution":"EduTech Institute and College of Computing\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\nAtlanta","department":""},{"first_name":"N","middle_name":"Hari","last_name":"Narayanan","name_suffix":"","institution":"EduTech Institute and College of Computing\nGeorgia Institute of Technology\nAtlanta","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1995-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33028/galley/24090/download/"}]}