Learner-Centered Design: A Cognitive View of Managing Complexity in Product, Information, and Envirommental Design / Edition 1

by Wayne Reeves

Overview

The issue of complexity, as applied to the way we gather information and learn, is a hallmark of this information age. The sheer amount of data, in addition to the increasingly technological way in which the data are delivered, have had profound effects on the ways in which we process information and, hopefully, learn. In this cutting edge volume, Wayne Reeves, a professor as well as consultant to Sun Microsystems, provides an overview of the field of complexity (including chaos theory, information literacy, and Knowledge Management Tools) and presents a working framework to help guide further research.

Aimed particularly at researchers, professors, and students in the areas of cognitive science and library//information sc

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761907275
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/03/1999
Series:	Science and Technology Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface
Consumers and Complexity
Introduction
PART ONE: THE NATURE OF COMPLEXITY
The Nature and Origins of Cognitive Complexity
Evaluating Cognitive Complexity
PART TWO: MANAGING COMPLEXITY
Learner as Perceiver
Learner as Model Builder
Learner as Categorizer
Learner as Searcher
Learner as Expert
Learner as Student
Tools for Learner-Centered Design

Editorial Reviews

Reeves (library and information science, San Jose State U.) offers an overview of complexity, including chaos theory, information literacy, and knowledge management tools. Aiming particularly at researchers and students in cognitive science and the library and information sciences, he describes tools that are being used to help create knowledge, among them indexes, abstracts, and hypertext information retrieval systems. He also suggests a framework for further research. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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