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Design-centered learning environments offer great promise for providing effective, grounded learning experiences. Learners are given a set of design criteria and a library of components which they use to design artifacts that will satisfy the specified criteria. Despite their appeal, design-centered learning environments are plagued with complexities that can overwhelm learners. To address this problem, we have developed a proactive problem-solving focus mechanism that helps learners cope with the complexities inherent in design-centered learning. By exploiting a rich model of the design context, the focus mechanism selects design problems and intervenes with multimedia advice. The mechanism has been implemented in Design-A-Plant, a design-centered learning environment for botanical anatomy and physiology. Formative evaluations with middle school students are encouraging.
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Lester, J.C., Stone, B.A., O'Leary, M.A., Stevenson, R.B. (1996). Focusing problem solving in design-centered learning environments. In: Frasson, C., Gauthier, G., Lesgold, A. (eds) Intelligent Tutoring Systems. ITS 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1086. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61327-7_146
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