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Exploratories: an educational strategy for the 21st century

What computer-based learning environment will students of all ages be immersed in 5, 10, or 20 years from now? And, how can we best prepare for learning and teaching in that environment? Part of the answer to these questions will lie in a deep understanding of Web-based (or whatever succeeds it) interactive learning that engages a broad range of human capabilities. The Exploratories project, an interactive Web-based educational research project at Brown University, uses the introductory undergraduate computer graphics course as a testbed to address these questions. An exploratory is a computer-based combination of an exploratorium and a laboratory that embeds in a hypermedia environment a multifaceted interactive microworld that models objects, phenomena, and concepts.