Facilitating knowledge construction by customized supportive services |
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| Authors: | Weidong Pan Igor Hawryszkiewycz |
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| Institution: | (1) Faculty of Information Technology, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123, Broadway, Sydney, NSW, 2007, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This research is aimed to assist individual learners to construct knowledge in online learning through providing them with
customized supportive services. The services go beyond simply presenting course materials, but supply a diverse range of technological
facilities, tools and services to assist individual learners to progress in the learning process. In this paper, the theoretical
background for facilitating construction of knowledge by individual learners is built at the first, through the review of
constructivist theories for learning and the objectivist ones. Then, a general conceptual model to describe any number of
practices in learning and teaching online is built. It will be used to customize online learning environments to cater for
various different learning demands. The services to support the individual’s knowledge construction are identified based on
the relevant theoretical background. After that, software agents are proposed to customize the supportive services for individual
learners based on their particular learning characteristics. Next, the implementation of these services is investigated and
a system prototype is reported. Finally the preliminary research result and the further work are presented. |
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| Keywords: | Personalization of learning Knowledge construction Supportive services Customizing Software agent Constructivist learning environment Online learning Learning process Unit of learning |
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