The only source of knowledge is experience.
Albert Einstein
When a computer is used for learning, the meaning of "learning" is changed. The mind-book, both a visualization tool and experiential thinking technique, can be integrated to any on-going creative, learning and/or therapeutic process, in formal and informal settings. For students, their mind-books are hands-on thinking tools to explore their imagination and voice, and include their personal perspectives and cultural preferences, within a learning-by-doing environment. For teachers, the mind-book is a visualization method to evaluate the students' learning process, and assist them to accomplish a more complex understanding by building new knowledge from their own performances.
The scope of application of the mind-book includes, but it is not limited to, the following major topics as they relate to the educational and developmental aspects of multimedia/hypermedia and telecommunications:
- Pedagogical Issues
- Media in Education
- Global Education
- Online and Networked Education
- Teaching/Learning Strategies
- Cooperative/Collaborative Learning
- Conceptual Navigation
- Learning by Doing
- Language Learning
- Improving Classroom Teaching
- Novel Applications/Approaches & Ideas
- Computer-Mediated Communication
- Human-Computer Interface (HCI) Issues
- Design of Distance Learning Systems
- Evaluation of Multimedia Systems
- Interactive Learning Environments
- Multimedia Systems and Applications
- Simulations for Learning
- Educational Animations
- Virtual Reality