Open AccessActive paper for active learning
Author(s) -
Heather Brown,
Robert Harding,
Steven Lay,
Peter Robinson,
Dan Sheppard,
Richard Watts
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
research in learning technology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.52
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 2156-7077
pISSN - 2156-7069
DOI - 10.3402/rlt.v6i1.10994
Subject(s) - readability , software portability , computer science , multimedia , human–computer interaction , electronic materials , natural (archaeology) , world wide web , programming language , materials science , archaeology , history , nanotechnology
Paper documents have great advantages in readability, portability and familiarity, but are necessarily static and slow to update. Much recent research has concentrated on the dynamic demonstrations, immediate feedback, and easy updating that can be provided by electronic teaching material. Although an increasing number of teaching packages make use of both paper and electronic documents, the two are typically accessed by completely separate interfaces. We have been taking a different approach and investigating the use of a DigitalDesk (Wellner, 1991; Wellner, 1993) as a means of integrating normal paper teaching material with electronic versions of the same material. Many printed books also exist in electronic form, and our goal is to allow these books to be used as natural interfaces to any additional information that may be present in the electronic version