Modeling is becoming increasingly important both as a way to learn science and
mathematics, and as a useful cognitive skill. Although many learning activities qualify as …

Sustainability assessment oriented to improve current systems and practices is urgently
needed, particularly in the context of small farmer natural resource management systems …

An argument that qualitative representations—symbolic representations that carve
continuous phenomena into meaningful units—are central to human cognition. In this book …

Computers are promising tools for providing educational experiences that meet individual
learning needs. However, delivering this promise in practice is challenging, particularly …

Constructing models of dynamic systems is an important skill in both mathematics and
science instruction. However, it has proved difficult to teach. Dragoon is an intelligent …

Articulating thought in computer-based media is a powerful means for humans to develop
their understanding of phenomena. We have created DynaLearn, an Intelligent Learning …

The potential for Artificial Intelligence is widely proclaimed. Yet, in everyday educational
settings the use of this technology is limited. Particularly, if we consider smart systems that …

This volume contains the proceedings of the 11th Based Software Engineering. The
Conference on Knowledge-Based Software Engineering (JCKBSE) was founded in 1994 by …

Ecosystem modeling is a complex and multidisciplinary modeling problem which emerged
in the 1950s. It takes advantage of the computational turn in sciences to better understand …

In this chapter, as a promising method to create cognitive conflict for learning from errors,
error-based simulation (EBS) and results of its practical use in science learning are …