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EC-TEL 2011: Towards Ubiquitous Learning pp 166–180Cite as

Adult Self-regulated Learning through Linking Experience in Simulated and Real World: A Holistic Approach

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This research considers the application of simulated environments for adult training, and adopts the view that effective adaptive solutions for adults should be underpinned by appropriate adult learning theories. Such environments should offer learning experiences tailored to the way adults learn: self-directed, experienced-based, goal- and relevancy oriented. This puts andragogy and self-regulated learning at the heart of the pedagogical underpinnings of the intelligent augmentation of simulated environments for experiential learning. The paper presents a holistic approach for augmented simulated experiential learning. Based on andragogic principles, we draw generic requirements for augmented simulated environments for adult learning. An extended self-regulated learning model that links experiences in simulated and real world is then presented. A holistic framework for augmenting simulators - SRL-A-LRS - is presented and illustrated in the context of the ImREAL EU project. This points at a radically new approach for augmenting simulated systems for adult experiential learning.

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  • Simulated Environments for Learning
  • Self-regulated Learning
  • Andragogy
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  1. University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

    Sonia Hetzner

  2. Graz University of Technology, Austria

    Christina M. Steiner

  3. University of Leeds, UK

    Vania Dimitrova & Paul Brna

  4. Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Owen Conlan

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  1. Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Avenida Universidad 30, 28911, Leganés (Madrid), Spain

    Carlos Delgado Kloos & Raquel M. Crespo García & 

  2. École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Denis Gillet

  3. The Open University, Walton Hall, MK7 6AA, Milton Keynes, UK

    Fridolin Wild

  4. Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), Schloss Birlinghoven, 53754, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Martin Wolpers

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Hetzner, S., Steiner, C.M., Dimitrova, V., Brna, P., Conlan, O. (2011). Adult Self-regulated Learning through Linking Experience in Simulated and Real World: A Holistic Approach. In: Kloos, C.D., Gillet, D., Crespo García, R.M., Wild, F., Wolpers, M. (eds) Towards Ubiquitous Learning. EC-TEL 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6964. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23985-4_14

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