Janet L. Kolodner

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Janet L. Kolodner

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#2166

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#1000

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Cognitive Science

#73

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#74

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#30

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According to Wikipedia, Janet Lynne Kolodner is an American cognitive scientist and learning scientist. She is a Professor of the Practice at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College and co-lead of the MA Program in Learning Engineering. She is also Regents' Professor Emerita in the School of Interactive Computing, College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was Founding Editor in Chief of The Journal of the Learning Sciences and served in that role for 19 years. She was Founding Executive Officer of the International Society of the Learning Sciences . From August, 2010 through July, 2014, she was a program officer at the National Science Foundation and headed up the Cyberlearning and Future Learning Technologies program . Since finishing at NSF, she is working toward a set of projects that will integrate learning technologies coherently to support disciplinary and everyday learning, support project-based pedagogy that works, and connect to the best in curriculum for active learning. As of July, 2020, she

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Janet L. Kolodner's Published Works

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Published Works

Case-Based Reasoning (1989) (3102)
Problem-Based Learning Meets Case-Based Reasoning in the Middle-School Science Classroom: Putting Learning by Design(tm) Into Practice (2003) (854)
Designing to Learn About Complex Systems (2000) (577)
An introduction to case-based reasoning (1992) (525)
Improving Human Decision Making through Case-Based Decision Aiding (1991) (484)
Maintaining Organization in a Dynamic Long-Term Memory (1983) (384)
Toward implementing distributed scaffolding: Helping students learn science from design (2005) (376)
Reconstructive Memory: A Computer Model (1983) (367)
Retrieval and organizational strategies in conceptual memory: a computer model (1980) (349)
Educational implications of analogy. A view from case-based reasoning. (1997) (344)
A Process Model of Cased-Based Reasoning in Problem Solving (1985) (231)
Towards an Understanding of the Role of Experience in the Evolution from Novice to Expert (1983) (229)
The MEDIATOR: Analysis of an Early Case-Based Problem Solver (1989) (215)
Facilitating the Learning of Design Practices: Lessons Learned from an Inquiry into Science Education. (2002) (210)
Learning by Design from Theory to Practice (1998) (209)
Case-based design support: a case study in architectural design (1992) (166)
The Cognitive Model (1993) (166)
Representation in case-based reasoning (2005) (156)
A Case-Based Design Aid for Architecture (1992) (142)
Extending Problem Solver Capabilities Through Case-Based Inference (1987) (128)
Experience, Memory and Reasoning (1986) (127)
Integrating and guiding collaboration: lessons learned in computer-supported collaborative learning research at Georgia Tech (1997) (120)
Computer support for learning through complex problem solving (1996) (115)
Problem-based Learning Meets Case-based Reasoning (1996) (104)
Powers of observation in creative design (1996) (104)
AI Grand Challenges for Education (2013) (101)
Using Experience in Clinical Problem Solving: Introduction and Framework (1987) (97)
The Roles of Adaptation in Case-Based Design (1991) (83)
Case-Based Learning (1993) (83)
Using the points of large cases (1993) (72)
Scaffolding the Development of an Inquiry-Based (Science) Classroom (2000) (70)
A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (69)
Educational Implications of Analogy: A View from Case-Based Reasoning (1997) (67)
Case-based reasoning-inspired approaches to education (2005) (65)
Toward a case-based aid for conceptual design (1991) (61)
Systematizing Scaffolding for Problem-Based Learning: A View from Case-Based Reasoning. (2016) (60)
Towards More Creative Case-Based Design Systems (1994) (60)
Conceptual information retrieval (1980) (59)
Learning by Design : Iterations of Design Challenges for Better Learning of Science Skills (特集学習環境のデザイン実験) (2002) (56)
CASE-BASED CREATIVE DESIGN (1993) (56)
Intra-group and intergroup: an exploration of learning with complementary collaboration tools (1997) (55)
Capitalizing on Failure through Case-Based Inference (1987) (53)
The Design of a Tool Kit for Case-Based Design AIDS (1994) (50)
Evaluating Classroom Practices Using Qualitative Research Methods: Defining and Refining the Process (2000) (48)
Understanding Creativity: A Case-Based Approach (1993) (47)
The design discussion area: a collaborative learning tool in support of learning from problem-solving and design activities (1999) (47)
Effects with and of CSCL: Tacking Learning in a New Paradigm (1996) (42)
The Roles of Scripts in Promoting Collaborative Discourse in Learning by Design (2007) (41)
Promoting Deep Science Learning Through Case-Based Reasoning: Rituals and Practices in Learning by Design Classrooms (2004) (41)
The Journal of the Learning Sciences: Effecting Changes in Education (1991) (38)
Retrieving Information from an Episodic Memory, or Why Computers' Memories Should Be More Like People's (1979) (35)
Problem Solving in a Natural Task as a Function of Experience (1987) (34)
Retrieval and Organizational Strategies in Conceptual Memory (Ple: Memory): A Computer Model (1984) (33)
A Case Study of Problem-Based Learning in a Middle-School Science Class: Lessons Learned (1996) (32)
Organization and Retrieval in a Conceptual Memory for Events or CON 54, Where Are You? (1981) (31)
Scientizing and Cooking: Helping Middle‐School Learners Develop Scientific Dispositions (2014) (30)
Memory For Experience (1985) (30)
A case-based design aid for conceptual design of aircraft subsystems (1994) (30)
Indexing and retrieval strategies for natural language fact retrieval (1983) (30)
Supporting Case-Study Use in Design Education: A Computational Case-Based Design Aid for Architecture (1995) (27)
On foundations of technological support for addressing challenges facing design-based science learning (2008) (26)
Understanding the Creative Mind: A Review of Margaret Boden's Creative Mind (1995) (26)
Exploring Digital Quilt Design Using Manipulatives as a Math Learning Tool (2002) (25)
Scaffolding Students' Development of Creative Design Skills: A Curriculum Reference Model (2011) (24)
A schema-based model of adaptive problem-solving (1989) (22)
Paying Attention to the Right Thing: Issues of Focus in Case-Based Creative Design (1993) (19)
Case-based reasoning : proceedings of a Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning, Holiday Inn, Clearwater Beach, Florida, May 10-13, 1988 (1988) (18)
Integrating and Guiding Collaboration: Lessons learned in computer-supported collaboration learning (1997) (18)
Indexing and Retrieval (1993) (18)
The Learning Sciences: Past, Present, Future (2004) (17)
Creative Design: Reasoning and Understanding (1997) (16)
Camera talk: making the camera a partial participant (2005) (16)
Getting and keeping children engaged with a constructionist design tool for craft and math (2007) (16)
Playing with food: moving from interests and goals into scientifically meaningful experiences (2010) (16)
Case application suite: promoting collaborative case application in learning by design classrooms (2002) (15)
Bricoleurs and Planners engaging in Scientific Reasoning: a Tale of Two Groups in One Learning Community (2007) (15)
Analogical and Case-Based Reasoning: Their Implications for Education (2002) (15)
Design-based Science Learning: Important Challenges and How Technology Can Make a Difference (2006) (14)
Promoting Learning in Informal Learning Environments (2006) (13)
Opportunistic Reasoning: A Design Perspective (1995) (12)
Computational support for collaborative learning through generative problem solving (1995) (12)
Exploring the development and transfer of case use skills in middle-school project-based inquiry classrooms (2006) (12)
The Role of Experience in Development of Expertise (1982) (11)
Retrieval and Organizational Strategies in Conceptual Memory (2014) (11)
Technology and Educational Reform (1997) (10)
Implementing what we know about learning in a middle-school curriculum for widespread dissemination: the project-based inquiry science (PBIS) story (2008) (10)
Memory Organization for Natural Language Data-Base Inquiry. (1978) (10)
Roles of a case library as a collaborative tool for fostering argumentation (1997) (10)
Using Post-Occupancy Evaluation To AID Reflection in ConceptualDesign: Creating a Case-Based Design Aid For Architecture (1994) (10)
Turning on minds with computers in the kitchen: supporting group reflection in the midst of engaging in hands-on activities (2007) (9)
Understanding the Creative Mind (1995) (9)
Case-based Reasoning: An Overview (1991) (9)
Towards a new kind of computational manipulative: children learning math and designing quilts with manipulatives that afford both (2004) (9)
Cambridge Handbook of Engineering Education Research: Learning Disciplinary Ideas and Practices Through Engineering Design (2014) (9)
Messy Learning Environments: Busy Hands and Less Engaged Minds (2006) (9)
JavaCAP: a collaborative case authoring program on the WWW (1997) (8)
Case-Based Reasoning - Guest Editors' Introduction (1992) (8)
Case libraries in support of design education: the DesignMuse experiences (1995) (8)
Drawn into Science Through Authentic Virtual Practice (2017) (8)
Using "Rules of Thumb" Practices to Enhance Conceptual Understanding and Scientific Reasoning in Project Based Inquiry Classrooms (2004) (8)
Project-Based Inquiry Science (2015) (8)
Organizing Memory and Keeping it Organized (1980) (7)
Promoting Transfer through Case-Based Reasoning: Rituals and Practices in the Learning by Design Classroom and Evidence of Transfer (2019) (7)
Designing case libraries to encourage creative design (2009) (6)
Designing for Understanding: Children's Lung Models (1997) (6)
A unified approach to analogical reasoning (1989) (6)
Guest Editorial - Creative Design: Scaffolding Creative Reasoning and Meaningful Learning (2011) (6)
Note from the Outgoing Editor-in-Chief (2009) (5)
Casebased Learning (1993) (5)
Scaling Up is Hard to Do: Experiences in Preparing a Case-Based Design Aid Prototype for Field Trial (1994) (5)
The "Neat" and the "Scruffy" in Promoting Learning From Analogy: We Need to Pay Attention to Both (2002) (5)
Adaptation Methods and Strategies (1993) (5)
McBAGEL: a shared and structured electronic workspace for problem-based learning (1996) (5)
Enterprise-directed reasoning: opportunism and deliberation in creative reasoning (1999) (5)
DARPA Workshop on Case-Based Reasoning: Proceedings (1988) (4)
Representing Attitudes: Some Primitive States. (1978) (4)
Knowledge-based self-organizing memory for events (1984) (4)
Technology for Supporting Learners in Out-of-School Learning Environments (2011) (4)
Towards a Computer Model of Psychiatric Reasoning (1982) (4)
Kitchen science investigators: promoting identity development as scientific reasoners and thinkers (2010) (4)
Requirements for natural language fact retrieval (1982) (3)
Effects of technology-based support for explanation construction on learners' discourse during design-based learning in science (2007) (3)
Learning Engineering Toolkit (2022) (3)
Basic Artificial Intelligence Research at the Georgia Institute of Technology (1991) (3)
Case-based Reasoning: Encyclopedia of Artificial Intelligence (1992) (2)
Modeling and Case-Based Reasoning in Support of Reflective Inquiry in Earth Science (2000) (2)
Case Interpretation and Application In Support of Scientific Reasoning (2004) (2)
Creativity is in the mind of the creator (1994) (2)
Organizational Structures and Retrieval Algorithms (1993) (2)
Opportunistic Enterprises in Invention (1998) (2)
Case Application Suite: Scaffolding Use of Expert Cases in Middle-School Project-Based Inquiry Classrooms (2004) (2)
Problem Solving and Learning in a Natural Task Domain. (1996) (2)
Entering Our Tenth Year: We've Come a Long Way, and Thank You to All (2000) (2)
Reflections on Design Stories (2016) (2)
Using experience as a guide for problem solving (1986) (2)
Beyond Just Getting Our Word Out: Creating Pipelines From Learning Sciences Research to Educational Practices (2016) (2)
A Case-Based System to Aid Cognition and Meta-Cognition is a Design-Based Learning Environment (2009) (2)
Visualizing Discussion by the Use of the Conversation Chain Model (2006) (2)
Learning through Case Analysis (2006) (2)
6 – Indexing Vocabulary (1993) (1)
Reasoning Using Cases (1993) (1)
Using Cases for Interpretation and Evaluation (1993) (1)
Publishing and refereeing papers in Physics Education Research (2007) (1)
Introduction to Using Cases (1993) (1)
From Mechanical to Meaningful Classroom Questions (2006) (1)
Cognitive Prosthetics for Fostering Learning: A View from the Learning Sciences (2015) (1)
The Role of Experience in Common-Sense and Expert Problem Solving (1985) (1)
Integrating tools into the classroom (1997) (1)
Collaborative learning based on real-world engineering-related tasks (1997) (1)
Toward a pre-disciplinary introductory design sequence (1995) (1)
Jacket’s Garage: Software for a Physical Science Learning Environment (2007) (1)
Case libraries for middle school science instruction (1996) (1)
Explaining Serendipitous Recognition in Design (2019) (1)
A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (1)
5 – Representing Cases (1993) (1)
A Note From the Editor (2005) (1)
The CSCL 2013 Early Career Workshop (2013) (0)
Getting Smarter About Smart Machines for Education. (2004) (0)
12 – Controlling Adaptation (1993) (0)
Intelligent fact retrieval: Georgia Tech (1982) (0)
Case 4 ased Reasoning (0)
Designing an Interactive Multimedia Environment for Learning and Aiding Troubleshooting (1997) (0)
Learning by Design TM : Promoting Deep Science Learning Through A Design Approach (2001) (0)
The Role of Cases in Learning (2019) (0)
Robust interaction and natural problem solving in advice-giving systems (1992) (0)
Reasoning with very large data bases (1996) (0)
FILL Wi CAPITALIZING ON FAILURE THROUGH CASE-BASED INFERENCE (2013) (0)
A computer memory for current events (1982) (0)
Introduction to Retrieving Cases from the Case Library (1993) (0)
Invention as an Opportunistic Enterprise (2007) (0)
Matching and Ranking Cases (1993) (0)
Learning engineering: What it is, why I’m involved, and why I think more of you should be (2023) (0)
Case Studies of Several Case-Based Reasoners (1993) (0)
Troubleshooting physical devices : learning and instruction (1990) (0)
Extracting information from experience : experience driven incremental learning (1986) (0)
Case-based Reasoning: an Overview 1 (2000) (0)
Case-based reasoning : inference methods and support resources (1988) (0)
Basic Artificial Intelligence Research at the Georgia (1991) (0)
Learning by design: improving math and science education through integration of engineering and design projects into the middle school curriculum (1998) (0)
Lessons Learned From Teaching Artificial Intelligence to Middle School Students (2022) (0)
THE ROLE OF EXPERIENCE IN DEVELOPNENT OF EXPERTISE (1982) (0)
Using Cases: Some Additional Issues (1993) (0)
Towards More Creative Case (1994) (0)
Extracting Information from Problem Solving Experience (1987) (0)
Moving Forward: The Learning Sciences and the Future of Education (2006) (0)
Helping Middle Schoolers Use Cases to Reason: The Case Interpretation Tool (2003) (0)
A Note From the Editor (2006) (0)
Introduction to The Case Library: Representing and Indexing Cases (1993) (0)
Computational Lessons from a Cognitive Study of Invention (2001) (0)
Case-based reasoning at Georgia Tech (1988) (0)
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (0)
Social , Cognitive , Historical , Technological , and Material Dimensions of Learning Trajectories in Designed Learning Environments (2009) (0)
A Case-Based Approach to Creative Design (1993) (0)
A Note From the Editor (2001) (0)
Equipment for artificial intelligence (1988) (0)
A Principle-Based Approach to Knowledge Building: Processes, Challenges, and Implications (2011) (0)
From the Editor (2003) (0)
Toward Promoting the Water Cooler Effect in Informal Learning Environments (2006) (0)
Final Report : Designing an Interactive Multirnedia Environment for Learning and Aiding Troubleshooting Army Research Institute MDA-903-90-K-0112 (2013) (0)
Mid-career workshop: Empowering women in the learning sciences new format, new mission (2019) (0)
Tools for case-based design adding systems (1994) (0)
Scientific Methods : Epistemological Issues in Cross-Disciplinary Science Curricula (2002) (0)
Author Correction: A consensus-based transparency checklist (2019) (0)
Conclusions, Opportunities, Challenges (1993) (0)
Fostering Identity and Disposition Development in Jewish Education: A View from the Learning Sciences (2019) (0)
Closeout Actions Remaining : None Final Invoice or Copy of Last Invoice Serving as Final Release and Assignment Final Report of Inventions and / or Subcontract : Patent and Subcontract Questionnaire sent to Project (2011) (0)
Methods for Index Selection (1993) (0)
Two Problems in Case-Based Reasoning. (1987) (0)
A Model of Invention (1997) (0)
Chapter 2 --the Design of Educational Reform 2.0 Emergent Design (2002) (0)
Introduction to Pulling It All Together (1993) (0)
A Note From the Editor (2007) (0)
The Role of Experience in natural problem solving (1986) (0)
Erratum: Introduction to the learning sciences methodology strand (Journal of the Learning Sciences 13:1) (2004) (0)
Design education CTR : using cognitive science and technology to facilitate (1999) (0)
Computer research equipment (1989) (0)
Building a Case-Based Reasoner (1993) (0)
Put your experience on the Web: A tool for creating and browsing in case libraries (1996) (0)

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