Interdisciplinary Approaches to Learning Informatics

Abstract

This paper discusses new challenges in learning informatics from an interdisciplinary perspective. As topics of learning informatics must cover very wide ranges, this paper will provide an overview with a combination of several ideas and applications. From a methodological point of view, the challenges include the concepts of 'knowledge networks', 'learner personas', and 'visualization of the experience'. From the viewpoints of educational applications, they contain the concepts of 'class design', 'peer review' and 'case learning'. The introduction of various concepts from fields such as computer sciences, marketing research, and design thinking of soft systems domains, whose areas are far from education applications, would add new insights to learning informatics research.