The learning design comprises three activities. The main resource is the interactive multimedia program and peer and instructor interaction serve and the support mechanisms. View the Learning Design Sequence for a graphical representation of this learning design.

Students select one of five investigations available from a multimedia CD-ROM resource and produce a report about their findings (from their examination of the content provided in the CD-ROM). Students form pairs or small groups to work on the task and assume the identity of "new teachers"...

The CD-ROM is the main resource students have access to. This multimedia program has been designed to enable students to examine a problem/investigation from a variety of perspectives...

The teacher is available to assist the students during class time. The teacher provides a scaffolding role as appropriate...

This learning setting forms a significant component of one mathematics method unit/subject in a teaching degree...

The learning outcome is to assist pre-service teachers and existing teachers to use a variety of assessment strategies and techniques to help them accurately assess their students’ progress...

Assessment is integrated with the task. Each group prepares both a written report, to be assessed by the lecturer, and an oral presentation...

The combination of video clips, sound, text and graphics meant that interactive multimedia was capable of supporting the constructivist perspective exemplified in the situated learning approach adopted, and presenting it in an efficient and accessible format...

The multimedia program was designed by operationalising the critical characteristics of a situated learning environment...

The project was funded by a CAUT Grant so the idea for the learning design, which came from the first author, was developed with the preparation of the grant application...

A research study was conducted to investigate the nature of a purposely-designed learning environment based on situated learning, and to explore students’ perceptions of learning environment in depth...

Students tend to become immersed in the task, and seem to enjoy doing their presentations. Some of them go over the top with their ‘characters’...