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Petros Lameras Philippa Levy Iraklis Paraskakis Sheila Webber 《Instructional Science》2012,40(1):141-157
This paper reports findings from a phenomenographic investigation into blended university teaching using virtual learning
environments (VLEs). Interviews with 25 Computer Science teachers in Greek universities illuminated a spectrum of teachers’
conceptions and approaches from ‘teacher-focused and content-oriented’, through ‘student-focused and content-oriented’, to
‘student-focused and process-oriented’. Using VLEs was described as a means of supporting: A—information transfer; B—application
and clarification of concepts; C—exchange and development of ideas, and resource exploration and sharing; D—collaborative
knowledge-creation, and development of process awareness and skills. The study suggests that pedagogical beliefs and circumstances
underpinning face-to-face teaching are more influential in shaping approaches to blended VLE use than VLE system features.
The authors propose that the findings could be used to inform educational enhancement initiatives and that there is a need
for further discipline-focused research on blended teaching. 相似文献
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This research investigated 68 secondary school students’ perceptions of their computer-mediated project-based learning environment
and their attitudes towards Project Work (PW) using two instruments—Project Work Classroom Learning Environment Questionnaire
(PWCLEQ) and Project Work Related Attitudes Instrument (PWRAI). In this project-based learning environment, students experienced
a face-to-face classroom setting and e-learning by using a synchronous computer-mediated communication (CMC) tool called ‘iCollaborate’
for online communication and project collaboration with peers from other countries. The PWCLEQ and PWRAI instruments were
used to evaluate the computer-mediated project-based learning environment using students’ perceptions of the learning environment
and to further investigate how their perceptions might affect their attitudes towards PW lessons. Students perceived the computer-mediated
project-based learning environment favourably but they preferred to experience more Material Environment and more Open-Endedness
and Social Presence. Simple correlation analysis revealed that all environment dimensions were significantly and positively
related to the students’ attitudes towards PW, while multiple regression analysis indicated that two scales, Instructor Support
and Social Presence, were the strongest predictors of attitudes towards PW lessons. 相似文献
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CSCL环境中的社会交互 总被引：3，自引：0，他引：3
现在有很多关于计算机支持下协作学习(CSCL)异步环境中分布式学习团体(DLGs)的实证研究。研究表明当前的CSCL环境并不能完全满足人们对其支持交互的团体学习、知识共享、知识的社会建构及能力的培养的需要。在CSCL环境中,主要有两个因素阻碍我们取得预期的社会交互的成果:一是将社会交互看作是自然而然发生的,二是忽视与学习任务本身无关的社会心理交互。当前解决这个问题的办法主要是依靠教育者和教师鼓励协作学习,为了让教师从这样的负担中解脱出来,我们必须改进CSCL环境,激发和支持学习者的社会交互。 相似文献
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This study investigates the mechanisms of scaffolding in a synchronous network-based environment – the ‘collaborative virtual
workplace’. A theoretical ‘multi-actor’ scaffolding model was formulated. The study itself focused on the role and inter-relations
of verbal scaffolding by tutor and peers during a collaborative process of making decisions about environmental issues. The analysis drew on data from the decision-making
discussions of 31 groups – material that was saved automatically by the learning environment software. The age of the 62 students
ranged from 14 to 17. Discourse act categories were devised to describe the tutor’s and the students’ task-related, supportive
and social communicative acts. The scaffolding situation was characterized through a causal discourse act interaction approach.
Tutor and students appeared to be elaborating and replacing each other’s process scaffolding acts in the collaborative decision-making
situation. The influence of certain tutor’s and students’ inter-related scaffolding patterns on students’ decision-making
provided empirical support for the ‘multi-actor’ scaffolding model.
in final form: 12 May 2005 相似文献
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This study contributes to research that characterises the affective learning that is evoked and taken on by students in response
to their perceptions of their contextual learning environments. Interview-discussions were held with lecturers of both introductory
and higher-level physics courses (n = 3) concerning how they formulated their patterns of teaching in terms of a particular conceptual framing that they considered
to best optimize making learning possible. Subsequently their students (n = 212) were asked with written questions, and some select follow-up interview-discussions, to describe what they expected
from ‘a good physics lecturer’. The relationships between these two things—the lecturer’s crafting of practice and the students’
expectations of quality teaching—were investigated. Results show that students’ expectations tend to match their lecturers’
practice, indicating that students are strongly influenced by a contextually based appreciation of ‘good’ teaching. 相似文献
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Carol K. K. Chan 《Metacognition and Learning》2012,7(1):63-73
This discussion paper for this special issue examines co-regulation of learning in computer-supported collaborative learning
(CSCL) environments extending research on self-regulated learning in computerbased environments. The discussion employs a
socio-cognitive perspective focusing on social and collective views of learning to examine how students co-regulate and collaborate
in computer-supported inquiry. Following the review of the articles, theoretical, methodological and instructional implications
are discussed: Future research directions include examining the theoretical nature of collective regulation and social metacognition
in building models of co-regulated learning; expanding methodological approaches using trace data and multiple measures for
convergence and construct validity; and conducting instructional experiments to test and to foster the development of co-regulated
learning in computer-supported collaborative inquiry. 相似文献
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Lori Beckett 《The Australian Educational Researcher》2011,38(1):109-124
This paper reports on the work of a small group of Education academics to build a professional learning community in a regional
university in the north of England. Their efforts form part of a ‘Leading Learning’ school–university partnership serving
schools in disadvantaged communities in inner city Leeds. This is designed to support teachers’ professional learning and
development and reclaim their sense of collaborative professionalism in a new era of austerity Britain. The account given
here is about the new partnerships being created between and among academic colleagues, who are learning to work effectively
with each other and their schooling colleagues on their collective professional learning and to build their collaborative
sense of professionalism. The complexities of this task—of working in a professional learning community within Faculty in
order to model and support a city-wide professional learning community with teacher partners, school communities, and civil
servants in the local Authority—are framed in terms of knowledge-building for the improvement of educational provision for
disadvantaged students in local schools and the university. 相似文献
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Knowledge management tools for instructional design 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Advances in computer technology typically find their way into education after a short generation of success in other settings.
This is an elaboration of one such technology—knowledge management systems (KMS)—and its application to instructional design.
An examination of the development of KMS from information systems. computer-supported collaborative work environments and
object-oriented systems, leads to a discussion of reusability. The focus is on the use of KMS by instructional designers.
A conceptual framework for distributed instructional design is provided along with examples of support tools. These tools
and the associated design framework are in use, and anecdotal evidence of effects and impact is provided. As such tools become
more widely used to support the planning, implementation and management of instructional systems and learning environments,
it is reasonable to expect the nature of instructional design practice to change. 相似文献
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Interactivity, group learning and student engagement are accepted as key features of social constructivist learning theories.
The challenge is to understand the interplay between such features in different learning environments. This study focused
on the qualitative differences between two interventions—small-groups and whole-class discussions. In both interventions,
three short video slices on the abstract topic ‘the physics of superconductivity’ were interspersed with the different discussion
styles. The video slices are based on the Bruner stages. Twenty-nine first year university physics students completed a pre-test,
underwent the intervention and completed a post-test. The remainder of the data were collected from student drawings, video
recordings, observer notes and facilitator feedback. Results indicate that the use of the video slices in both interventions
were successful in changing students’ understandings of superconductivity. However, the small groups treatment tended to facilitate
questioning, meaning-making and subsequent changes of ideas more so than the whole class discussions. Implications for research
and practice are discussed. 相似文献
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David Guile 《Vocations and Learning》2011,4(2):93-111
The paper analyses a form of interprofessional working and learning (IPWL)—the fleeting spatial and temporal constitution
of project teams with little prior history of working together—that is an increasing feature of work in the global economy.
The paper argues firstly: (i) this form of working and learning is relatively under-researched in professional, vocational
and workplace learning (PVWL); and, (ii) the research traditions—Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Cultural Anthropology/Symbolic
Interactionist (CA/SI)—that some researchers in PVWL have drawn on to investigate IPWL do not allow them to capture the cognitive
and symbolic complexity of this activity. Secondly, it is possible to reveal the nature of this complexity when the concepts
and methods associated with CHAT and CA-SI-based approaches are supplemented with the concepts of ‘inference’, ‘space of reasons’,
‘restructuring and ‘recontextualisation’ (Guile, 2010). The paper demonstrates this claim by reinterpreting a classic study of the aforementioned form of working and learning
undertaken by Hall, Stevens and Torolba that drew on concepts and methods from CA and SI (2002). 相似文献
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Lena Hansson Andreas Redfors Maria Rosberg 《Journal of Science Education and Technology》2011,20(4):388-402
In a European project—CoReflect—researchers in seven countries are developing, implementing and evaluating teaching sequences
using a web-based platform (STOCHASMOS). The interactive web-based inquiry materials support collaborative and reflective
work. The learning environments will be iteratively tested and refined, during different phases of the project. All learning
environments are focusing “socio-scientific issues”. In this article we report from the pilot implementation of the Swedish
learning environment which has an Astrobiology context. The socio-scientific driving questions are “Should we look for, and
try to contact, extraterrestrial life?”, and “Should we transform Mars into a planet where humans can live in the future?”
The students were in their last year of compulsory school (16 years old), and worked together in triads. We report from the
groups’ decisions and the support used for their claims. On a group level a majority of the student groups in their final
statements express reluctance towards both the search of extraterrestrial life and the terraforming of Mars. The support used
by the students are reported and discussed. We also look more closely into the argumentation of one of the student groups.
The results presented in this article, differ from earlier studies on students’ argumentation and decision making on socio-scientific
issues (Aikenhead in Science education for everyday life. Evidence-based practice. Teachers College Press, New York, (2006) for an overview), in that they suggest that students do use science related arguments—both from “core” and “frontier” science—in
their argumentation and decision making. 相似文献
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Katrin Allmendinger 《Educational Psychology Review》2010,22(1):41-56
Social factors play an important role in determining whether instructional communication in computer-supported settings will
be successful. Social presence is a social factor, specifically addressing the feeling of being present with another person in a virtual environment. This
article describes possibilities to influence the feeling of social presence in synchronous learning scenarios using desktop
collaborative virtual environments (CVEs). Desktop CVEs are technically simple compared with immersive CVEs and can be adapted
according to the needs of the users. In this article, possible adaptations are described using the example of the desktop
CVE virtual team room. In CVEs, users are represented as avatars. Avatars may or may not convey nonverbal signals. The focus
of the article is on whether the actual use of nonverbal signals can affect the sense of social presence and thus help to
establish and maintain the learner's motivation and provide support for structuring social interaction in learning situations.
The paper provides a review of exploratory studies and experiments as well as a report on the author's own studies. Future
research questions concerning learning in CVEs are discussed. 相似文献
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Assessment for learning in Singapore: unpacking its meanings and identifying some areas for improvement 总被引：2，自引：1，他引：1
Kelvin Tan 《Educational Research for Policy and Practice》2011,10(2):91-103
This article examines the meanings and impact of ‘Assessment for Learning’ initiatives in schools against the back drop of
assessment reform in Singapore since 1997. It is argued that Assessment for Learning’ is understood in different ways, and
these different meanings do not always benefit students’ learning. The different meanings of ‘Assessment for Learning’ in
Singapore are unpacked, and three areas for improvement for Assessment for Learning are suggested—clear standards for effective
feedback practices, assessment for sustainable learning and assessment for integrating holistic learning. 相似文献
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This study analyses the discourse among the teacher and the students, members of three (3) small groups, who learn in the
environment of a stand-alone computer. Two educational environments are examined: the first one, a “virtual laboratory” (Virtual
scale-DELYS) and the second one, a computer modeling environment (ModelsCreator). The ‘Virtual Scale’ environment provides
users with curriculum focused feedback and in that sense it can be categorized as directive. The ModelsCreator environment
provides users merely with a representation of their own conception of curriculum concepts, so it can be categorized as an
open-ended environment. The goal of this research is to exemplify the way the two educational software environments support
(a) the development of collective thinking in peer— and teacher-led discussion and (b) students’ autonomy. The software tools
of the “Virtual scale” along with the resources provided for the problem solving created an educational framework of hypothesis
testing. This framework did not limit the students’ contributions by directing them to give short answers. Moreover, it supported
the students’ initiatives by providing tools, representations and procedures that offered educationally meaningful feedback.
Based on the above results, we discuss a new educationally important structure of software mediation and describe the way
the two software activities resourced collective thinking and students’ initiatives. Finally, for each type of software environment,
we propose certain hypotheses for future research regarding the support of collaborative problem solving. 相似文献
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Labour perspectives on the new politics of skill and competency formation: International reflections
Peter Sawchuk 《Asia Pacific Education Review》2008,9(1):50-62
Skill/competency approaches to workplace-based policy seek to assess and train for discrete individual competencies with the
goal of increasing employability and productivity. These approaches have become increasingly prominent across a range of advanced
capitalist countries. A substantial critique has emerged over this same period regarding issues of instrumentality and social
control, as well as the failure of skill/compentancy approaches to articulate a meaningful understanding of human learning
capacities. In this article, these critical perspectives are clarified further by a review of contributions to understanding
the skill/competence question emerging from sociology of work literature. Building from these critiques, this article outlines
recent experiences with and perspectives on skill/competency frameworks amongst different national labour movements. Included
in this outline is a more detailed, comparative analysis of Norway and Canada; here we see the lofty ‘new’, ‘knowledge economy’
rhetoric — in two countries where one might expect to see it blossom in application — brought down to earth by the realities
of industrial relations, employer intransigence and intra-labour movement differences. ‘Skill/competence’ proves to be a floating
signifier that, amongst both employers and labour, stands as a proxy for ‘power/control’ struggles. Degenerating in this way,
from a labour perspective, the new politics of skill/competency formation is seen to have spiraled toward irrelevance in Norway
and Canada; awaiting, in both countries, a re-invigoration through attention to changes in the participatory structure of
the labour process itself. 相似文献
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Conceptions of,and approaches to,teaching online: a study of lecturers teaching postgraduate distance courses 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Carlos Gonzalez 《Higher Education》2009,57(3):299-314
This paper presents the outcomes of a study into online teaching. It builds upon previous research and conceptual frameworks
produced by Kember and Kwan (Instr Sci 28(5):469–490, 2000) and Roberts (Instr Sci 31(1–2):127–150, 2003). It advances research
on conceptions of, and approaches to, teaching by examining teaching in a novel context: distance-taught courses at the postgraduate
level. Lecturers were interviewed from a Faculty of Health Sciences in a research-intensive Australian University. Relationships
between conceptions and approaches found in previous research were confirmed in this study. However, it was found that the
conceptions of online teaching proposed by Roberts (Instr Sci 31(1–2):127–150, 2003) did not adequately distinguish between
the conceptions held by the lecturers interviewed in this study. Three modified conceptions of online teaching are proposed:
‘for individual access to learning materials and information; and for individual assessment’; ‘for learning related communication
(asynchronous and/or synchronous)’; and ‘as a medium for networked learning’. Some of the dimensions developed by Roberts
to describe approaches to online teaching were not applicable in this study setting and needed further modification. Two broad
approaches emerged: ‘informative/individual learning focused’ and ‘communicative/networked learning focused’. Contextual influences
on teaching reported by Kember and Kwan (Instr Sci 28(5):469–490, 2000)—that is, institutional influence, nature of students
and subject and curriculum—were revealed in this study to have different levels of influence over approaches to online teaching:
the first two being the more relevant ones. 相似文献
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Conclusions Educationists in Europe have an established tradition of exploring educational disadvantage from a socio-cultural perspective,
as indicated by the focus on social justice in education. Their concerns have been with relatively small-scale phenomena:
the context in which particular disadvantaged groups are educated, leading to specific recommendations for local areas. Policy-makers,
in contrast, are concerned with combating social exclusion at the national or Europe-wide level, primarily as a means of reducing
unemployment and social unrest. The initiatives they set in motion necessarily take a wider perspective and pay little heed
to diverse needs, aspirations and goals among the socially excluded. There is a need for European educationalists to increase
their own awareness of the European context—not simply the national context—in which they work. They need also to develop
perspectives on major European initiatives to combat social exclusion, the effects of which will remain otherwise unexplored
by a community of educationalists with a history of interest in and commitment to challenging educational disadvantage.
Original language: English
Joanna McPake (United Kingdom) At present, Deputy Director of the Scottish Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research, University of Stirling.
Formerly, Senior Researcher and Programme Manager, Scottish Council for Research in Education. Her principal research focus
is on aspects of teaching and learning in school. Since 1996 she has been (with Ghazala Bhatti) co-ordinator of the Social
Justice and Intercultural Education Network of the European Educational Research Association. Recent publications include:
‘A mirror to ourselves? The educational experiences of Japanese children at school in the UK’ (with J. Powney, 1998); andEducation of minority ethnic groups in Scotland (with J. Powney, S. Hall and L. Lyall, 1998).
Ghazala Bhatti (United Kingdom) Ph.D. Director, Modular Master's Degree on ‘Equity and change in the public services’, University of Reading. Formerly, a
primary and secondary school teacher. Her current professional interests in the field of education concern ethnicity, gender
and social justice. She is the joint convenor (with Joanna McPake) of the Social Justice and Intercultural Education Network
of EERA. Recent publications include:Asian children at home and at school: an ethnographic study (1999) andA journey into the unknown: an ethnographic study of Asian children (1995).
This article consists of reflections on recent research presented at the European Conference on Educational Research by the
joint co-ordinators of the Social Justice and Intercultural Education network of the European Educational Research Association. 相似文献
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David Gijbels Gerard van de Watering Filip Dochy Piet van den Bossche 《Instructional Science》2006,34(3):213-226
Research into students’ perceptions of their learning environments reveals the impact of these perceptions on the way students
cope with these learning environments. Consequently, students’ perceptions affect the results of their learning. This study
aims to investigate whether students in a new learning environment (NLE) perceive it to be more constructivist when compared
with the perceptions students have of a conventional lecture-based environment. Using a questionnaire consisting of seven
key factors of constructivist learning environments, the results show that students in the NLE perceive it to be more constructivist
when compared to the perceptions of students in a conventional lecture-based environment. The difference was statistically
significant for four of the seven factors. According to the effect size, as measured by the d-index, the difference in perception between the two groups was greatest for the factor ‘conceptual conflicts and dilemmas’.
in final form: 31 May 2005 相似文献
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An Instrument for Assessing Students' Mental State and the Learning Environment in Science Education
The purpose of this research was to develop and validate a new instrument, the Mental State in Learning Environment Questionnaire (MSLEQ), to assess student's mental state in a given learning environment. The MSLEQ has high internal consistency reliability
values between 0.70–0.92 as well as good construct validity and predictive validity. After conducting a factor analysis, four
main factors were extracted and were described as ‘emotion’, ‘intention’, ‘internal mental representation’ and ‘external mental
representation’. The important feature of this study is the construction of an economical questionnaire on the mental state
in a given learning environment. The questionnaire yielded important information that can be concretely applied to science
teaching and learning. 相似文献