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Designing Failure to Encourage Success: Productive Failure in a Multi-user Virtual Environment to Solve Complex Problems

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Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines (EC-TEL 2009)

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The purpose of this research project is to gain an understanding of the initial stage of a productive failure treatment. The research focuses on how learners solve complex or ill-defined problems in Virtual Singapura, a multi-user virtual environment. The research uses a mixed method approach that employs conversation analysis, questionnaires and pre, mid and post-tests. Complex problems, by their very nature, are difficult for learners to connect with, and this project will focus the initial cycle of a productive failure treatment in order to develop a series of design considerations that teachers can implement in an immersive learning environment to help students develop the strategies necessary to engage with complex problems across domains of knowledge. The project aims to inform theory on productive failure, learner processes and learning in immersive environments.

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  1. Centre for Research on Computer Supported Learning and Cognition, Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Shannon Kennedy-Clark

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  1. Institut für Wissensmedien| Knowledge Media Research Center (IWM|KMRC), Konrad-Adenauer-Str. 40, 72072, Tübingen

    Ulrike Cress

  2. Knowledge Representation and Reasoning Research Group, School of Computing,, University of Leeds, room 7.23, EC Stoner Building, LS2 9JT, Leeds, UK

    Vania Dimitrova

  3. CELSTEC (Centre for Learning Sciences and Technologies), Open University of the Netherlands, Valkenburgerweg 177, 6419 AT, Heerlen, The Netherlands

    Marcus Specht

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Kennedy-Clark, S. (2009). Designing Failure to Encourage Success: Productive Failure in a Multi-user Virtual Environment to Solve Complex Problems. In: Cress, U., Dimitrova, V., Specht, M. (eds) Learning in the Synergy of Multiple Disciplines. EC-TEL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5794. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04636-0_56

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