Sociomedia : multimedia, hypermedia, and the social construction of knowledge / edited by Edward Barrett. [electronic resource]

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barrett, Edward, Author.

Contributor:

Barrett, Edward.

Series:

Technical communication and information systems

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Interactive multimedia.

Knowledge, Sociology of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (580 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Sociomedia : an introduction / Edward Barrett

Education by engagement and construction : a strategic education initiative for a multimedia renewal of American education / Ben Shneiderman

Is there a class in this text? : creating knowledge in the electronic classroom / John M. Slatin

Varieties of virtual : expanded metaphors for computer-mediated learning / Patricia Ann Carlson

Cognitive architecture in hypermedia instruction / Henrietta Nickels Shirk

Multimedia : informational alchemy or conceptual typography? / Evelyn Schlusselberg and V. Judson Harward

Dimensions, context, and freedom : the library in the social creation of knowledge / Gregory T. Anderson

Multimedia and the library and information studies curriculum / Kathleen Burnett

The virtual museum and related epistemological concerns / Glen Hoptman.

An epistemic analysis of the interaction between knowledge, education, and technology / David Chen

The many faces of multimedia : how new technologies might change the nature of the academic endeavor / Alison Hartman, John E. Diem, and Matthew Quagliana

Bootstrapping hypertext : student-created documents, intermedia, and the social construction of knowledge / George P. Landow

The CUPLE project : a hyper- and multimedia approach to restructuring physics education / E.F. Redish, Jack M. Wilson, and Chad McDaniel

Collaborative virtual communities : using Learning constellations, a multimedia ethnographic research tool / Ricki Goldman-Segall

The crisis management game of Three Mile Island : using multi-media simulation in management education / Thomas M. Fletcher

Restructuring space, time, story, and text in advanced multi-media learning environments / Janet H. Murray.

The virtual classroom : software for collaborative learning / Starr Roxanne Hiltz

Medical Center : a modular hypermedia approach to program design / Nels Anderson

Prototyping multimedia : lessons from the Visual Computing Group at Project Athena Center for Educational Computing Initiative / Ben Davis

Engineering-design instructional computer system (EDICS) / David Gordon Wilson

Computers and design activities : their mediating role in engineering education / Shahaf Gal

The need for negotiation in cooperative work / Beth Adelson and Troy Jordan

Teaching hypermedia concepts using hypermedia techniques / Peter A. Gloor

Computer integrated documentation / Guy Boy

The Worchester State College "Elder Connection" : using multimedia and information technology to promote intergenerational education / Virginia Z. Ogozalek [and others].

Paradoxical reactions and powerful ideas : educational computing in a department of physics / Sherry Turkle.

Notes:

"Most of the papers ... were originally presented at the first conference on 'The Social Creation of Knowledge' ... at MIT in spring, 1991"--Acknowledgements.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-262-26776-4

0-585-03098-7