Virtual rooms for building complex interactive learning environments

Abstract

Through the specific example of an early 1990s office-based prototype prepared for students in the first analog electronics course in electrical engineering, the paper discusses how an interconnected collection of virtual rooms offers designers a flexible and efficient means of incorporating learning materials into student-centered interactive learning environments that, according to current learning theories, can develop higher order thinking skills. The paper also discusses increasing the feedback to both teachers and students based on automatically recorded logs of learner activity, and implementing a collection of interconnected interactive virtual rooms with Web technologies.