| Autor: |
Charles Severance, Moon Jung Chung, SeJin Chung |
| Rok vydání: |
2003 |
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| Zdroj: |
Interactive Learning Environments. 11:41-57 |
| ISSN: |
1049-4820 |
| DOI: |
10.1076/ilee.11.1.41.13689 |
| Popis: |
In a WWW-based virtual learning environment where students and teachers are physically separated, the quantity and quality of interaction among students and with instructors affects learning. Lack of constructive activity is often identified as one of the major causes for poor learning. We developed support tools (prompts which support students to use self-explanation and self-monitoring strategies) and studied how support tools facilitate convergent knowledge building processes in a WWW-based virtual university engineering course. A quasi-experimental study was designed. An engineering class of a virtual university was selected as the research site and the students in the class were randomly assigned to two different work environments: (1) without support tools, and (2) with support tools. This study has an implication for theory that the opportunity to engage in interaction itself is not enough for students to either integrate knowledge or develop/improve the coordination of group work in an online lear... |
| Databáze: |
OpenAIRE |
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