The design of future educational interfaces / by Sharon Oviatt.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oviatt, Sharon.

Contributor:

Taylor & Francis.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Data processing.

Education.

Human-computer interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 342 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York : Routledge, 2013.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

The Design of Future Educational Interfaces provides a new multidisciplinary synthesis of educational interface research. It explains how computer interfaces can be redesigned to better support our ability to produce ideas, think, and solve problems successfully in national priority areas such as science and mathematics. Based on first-hand research experience, the author offers a candid analysis of emerging technologies and their impact, highlighting communication interfaces that stimulate thought. The research results will surprise readers and challenge their assumptions about existing technology and its ability to support our performance. In spite of a rapid explosion of interest in educational technologies, there remains a poor understanding of what constitutes an effective educational interface for student cognition and learning. This book provides valuable insights into why recent large-scale evaluations of existing educational technologies have frequently not shown demonstrable improvements in student performance. The research presented here is grounded in cognitive science and experimental psychology, linguistic science and communications, cross-cultural cognition and language, computer science and human interface design, and the learning sciences and educational technology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Part I Evolutionary and Neurological Basis for Educational Interface Design 11

1 Innovative Tool Use, Cognitive Evolution, and Implications for Educational Interfaces 11

Part II Existing and Future Interfaces 35

2 Keyboard Interfaces: The Bottleneck Constricting Communication and Performance 35

3 Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Stimulating Ideas and Problem Solving 49

4 Rethinking the Interface as a Communications Power Tool for Supporting Inferential Reasoning 66

5 Emerging Interface Directions for Supporting Conceptual Change 92

Part III Foundational Elements of Communications Interface Design 117

6 Support for Multiple Representations 117

7 Support for Multiple Modalities 140

8 Support for Multiple Linguistic Codes 156

9 Theoretical Frameworks for Advancing Educational Interfaces 175

Part IV Building Educational Interfaces of the Future 211

10 Designing Integrated Interfaces that Stimulate Activity 211

11 Fostering Meta-Awareness about Technology and Its Impact 235

12 Implications for Future Empirical, Theoretical and Policy Directions 253.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0203366204

9780203366202

Publisher Number:

99968137077

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.