ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES - THE LEARNING-ENVIRONMENT

Researchers of artificial intelligence in education have been developi ng adaptive learning material for complex domains such as programming languages, mathematics, medicine, physics, avionics trouble shooting, pulp and paper mill factories, and electronics. The actual learning ma terial is itself, however, only part of the total Learning Environment (LE) within which learning fakes place. This paper presents an extens ion to the brief overview of an LE first described by Sandberg and Bar nard (1993) and Sandberg (1994), and later augmented by Schneider and Peraya (1995). The LE is presented as a conceptual glue which binds se veral areas of research in an effort to provide a complete and cohesiv e environment within which the learner is central. (C) 1997 Elsevier S cience Ltd.