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ELI 2007 Annual Meeting, January 22–24

Emerging Educational Technologies and Neomillennial Learning Styles

Session Details

Tuesday, January 23, 2007
8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m.
International Ballroom D-F

Session Type: General Session

Speaker(s)

  • Chris Dede, Timothy E. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education

Abstract

Emerging digital media are shaping users' motivations, attributes, and social patterns into types of learning styles quite different from those based on sensory, personality, or intelligence factors. Neomillennial students seek learning situations that interweave face-to-face interactions with shared virtual experiences across distance and time (distributed learning). This session will give examples of middle and high school distributed learning experiences based on immersive game-like educational simulations (multiuser virtual environments, augmented realities) and will discuss the implications of students' neomillennial learning styles for higher education.

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