The purpose of the study was to explore what project-based learning is, what are the
pedagogical or psychological motives supporting it, how it has been implemented and what …

It is a matter of quasi-consensus among argumentation researchers that engaging in
argumentation sets the scene for changes in people's views. However, the actual process by …

Coding as a Playground, Second Edition focuses on how young children (aged 7 and
under) can engage in computational thinking and be taught to become computer …

The zone of proximal development (ZPD) is defined as an overarching concept that
integrates the main tenets of Vygotsky's theory of human development. The …

Pedagogical agents are typically designed to take on a single role: either as a tutor who
guides and instructs the student, or as a tutee that learns from the student to reinforce what …

In this article, we aimed to contribute to a fuller understanding of the complex social
ecologies that shape students' academic development by focusing on richer and more …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Sociocultural approaches emphasize the interdependence of social and individual
processes in the coconstruction of knowledge. This article uses three central tenets of a …

This chapter summarizes two decades of research on computer-supported collaborative
learning (CSCL). We first review the key idea that has emerged, namely the fact that …