Knowledge-Building through Collaborative Web-Based Learning Community or Ecology in Education

2009 ◽  
pp. 821-828
Author(s):  
Percy Kwok
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Local Schools ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Curriculum Guidelines

Because of the ever changing nature of work and society under knowledge-based economy in the 21st century, students and teachers need to develop ways of dealing with complex issues and thorny problems that require new kinds of knowledge that they have not ever learned or taught (Drucker, 1999). Therefore, they need to work and collaborate with others. They also need to be able to learn new things from a variety of resources and people, and to investigate questions and bring their learning back to their dynamic life communities. There have arisen recent learning community approaches (Bereiter, 2002; Bielaczyc & Collins, 1999) and learning ecology (Siemens, 2003) or information ecology approaches (Capurro, 2003) to education. These approaches fit well with the growing emphasis on lifelong, lifewide learning and knowledge-building works. Following this trend, the Internet technologies have been translated into a number of strategies for teaching and learning (Jonassen, Howland, Moore, & Marra, 2003) with supportive development of one-to-one (e.g., e-mail posts), one-to-many (such as e-publications), and many-to-many communications (like video-conferencing). The technologies of computer-mediated communications (CMC) make online instructions possible and have the potential to bring enormous changes to student learning experience of the real world (Rose & Winterfeldt, 1998). It is because individual members of learning communities or ecologies help synthesize learning products via deep information processing processes, mutual negotiation of working strategies, and deep engagement in critical thinking, accompanied by an ownership of team works in those communities or ecologies (Dillenbourg, 1999). In short, technology in communities is essentially a means of creating fluidity between knowledge segments and connecting people in learning communities. However, this Webbased collaborative learning culture is neither currently emphasized in local schools nor explicitly stated out in intended school curriculum guidelines of formal educational systems in most societies. More than this, community ownership or knowledge-construction in learning communities or ecologies may still be infeasible, unless values in learning cultures are necessarily transformed after technical establishment of Web-based learning communities or ecologies.

Collaborative Web-Based Learning Community

2011 ◽  
pp. 89-95
Author(s):  
Percy Kwok Lai-yin ◽  
Christopher Tan Yew-Gee
Keyword(s):  
Learning Community ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Knowledge Building ◽  
Information Ecology ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Learning Ecology

Because of the ever-changing nature of work and society under the knowledge-based economy in the 21st century, students and teachers need to develop ways of dealing with complex issues and thorny problems that require new kinds of knowledge that they have never learned or taught (Drucker, 1999). Therefore, they need to work and collaborate with others. They also need to be able to learn new things from a variety of resources and people and investigate questions, then bring their learning back to their dynamic life communities. There have arisen in recent years learning-community approaches (Bereiter, 2002; Bielaczyc & Collins, 1999) and learning-ecology (Siemens, 2003) or information-ecology approaches (Capurro, 2003) to education. These approaches fit well with the growing emphasis on lifelong, life-wide learning and knowledge-building works.

Instructional Interactivity in a Web-Based Learning Community

2010 ◽  
pp. 121-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adams Bodomo
Keyword(s):  
Learning Communities ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Practical Implementation ◽  
Constructivist Learning Environment ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Course Materials ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
Conversational Learning ◽  
Active Communication

It is demonstrated in this chapter that enhanced interactivity is the single most important reason why teachers should practise web-based teaching and why students should be encouraged to construct web-based learning communities. The notion of conversational learning community (CLC) as a kind of constructivist learning environment is introduced. It is shown that instructional interactivity, defined as active communication in a conversational learning community between instructor(s), learners, course materials, and links to remote experts and resources, is a central aspect of the learning situation. A practical implementation of the CLC model is presented through describing the interactive features of a web-based course using WebCT. It is concluded that web-based learning and teaching actually enhances interactivity both within and beyond the classroom setting.

Capturing and Reusing Building Maintenance Knowledge

2011 ◽  
pp. 67-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patrick S.W. Fong ◽  
Ka-chi Wong
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Knowledge Management System ◽  
Prototype System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Building Maintenance ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Unique Nature ◽  
Learning From Others

Knowledge is regarded as the most important asset for sustainable success in today’s knowledge-based economy, and it has become the main competitive tool for many businesses. Proper capture and reuse of knowledge reduces the risk of “reinventing the wheel.” Building surveyors play a major role in building maintenance. Owing to the unique nature of building maintenance, building surveyors need sufficient knowledge and experience to facilitate their decision-making process. Apart from gaining this knowledge and experience by direct participation, learning from others is a sound alternative. However, insufficiencies have been found in the current practice on this aspect, and thus the aim of this chapter is to study whether a proposed Web-based prototype knowledge management system would be a feasible solution for capturing and reusing knowledge and experience in building maintenance. A questionnaire survey was conducted in this research to study the opinions of professional building surveyors on the capture and reuse of knowledge and experience in building maintenance, as well as the requirements of a proposed Web-based prototype system.

VARIOUS ASPECTS OF INTELLIGENT COLLABORATIVE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEMS

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Sabina Katalnikova ◽  
Leonids Novickis
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Systems ◽  
Intelligent System ◽  
System Development ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
System Knowledge

In connection with the transition to a knowledge-based economy, at a time when a key factor in the development of society is the accumulated human knowledge and skills, as well as the availability of a wide range of users, intelligent systems are becoming very popular. Accordingly, the demand of the ergonomic and effective means of designing this class system is growing as well. The most time-consuming and most important stage of intelligent system development is the formation of the system knowledge base which ultimately determines the efficiency and quality of the entire intelligent system. Knowledge representation and processing models and methods as well as the intelligent system development techniques operating on the basis of these methods and models have a crucial role in relation to this. The article explores the different aspects of intelligent collaborative educational systems, describes the overall structure of an intelligent collaborative educational system and reflects the different steps of development the system.

scholarly journals New Ideas on the Design of the Web-Based Learning System Oriented to Problem Solving From the Perspective of Question Chain and Learning Community

2016 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yin Zhang ◽  
Samuel Chu
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Learning System ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Learning Mechanism ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Problem Solving Process ◽  
The Web

<p class="2">In recent years, a number of models concerning problem solving systems have been put forward. However, many of them stress on technology and neglect the research of problem solving itself, especially the learning mechanism related to problem solving. In this paper, we analyze the learning mechanism of problem solving, and propose that when designing Web-based problem solving systems, more attention should be paid to the learning mechanism involved in the problem solving process than to the technology itself. On the basis of that, some new ideas on the design of the problem solving systems are put forward in order to promote the rapid development of the Web-based problem solving systems.</p>

Designing OMIS-Based Collaboration for Learning Organizations

2005 ◽  
pp. 827-830
Author(s):  
Kam Hou Vat
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Organizational Knowledge ◽  
Business Environment ◽  
Organizational Memory ◽  
Business Community ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Knowledge Culture ◽  
Knowledge Based Economy ◽  
Organizational Resource

Today, the view that knowledge is a valuable organizational resource has become widely recognized and accepted in the business community. This is largely due to the emergence of the knowledge-based economy (OECD, 1996), characterized by a highly competitive and turbulent business environment. One consequence is the increase in organizations’ efforts to deliberately manage knowledge. Organizations are realizing that their competitive edge is mostly the intellectual capital (brainpower) (Stewart, 1997) of their employees, and they are particularly interested in harnessing their human resources in order to stay ahead of the pack, through their soaring attention on specific aspects of knowledge management (De Hoog, van Heijst, van der Spek et al., 1999), which deals with the conceptualization, review, consolidation, and action phrases of creating, securing, combining, coordinating, and retrieving knowledge. Undeniably, with Web-based and intranet technologies (Dunn & Varano, 1999), the connectivity and possible sharing of organizational knowledge (bits and pieces of individual know-how scattered throughout the organization) are greatly enabled to cultivate the knowledge culture of the organization. In a knowledge-creating organization (Nonaka & Takeuchi, 1995), employees are expected to continually improvise and invent new methods to deal with unexpected difficulties, and to solve immediate problems and share these innovations with other employees through some effective communication channels or knowledge-transfer mechanisms. In fact, complete organizational knowledge is created only when individuals keep modifying their knowledge through interactions with other organizational members. The challenge that organizations now face is how to devise suitable information system (IS) support (Vat, 2000, 2002a, 2002b) to turn the scattered, diverse knowledge of their people into well-documented knowledge assets ready for deposit and reuse to benefit the whole organization. This article presents some learning organization perspectives of employee-based collaboration through the design of a specific IS support called the organizational memory information system—hence, the term OMIS.

Social learning constructs and employee learning performance in informal Web-based learning environments

2018 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 394-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
HyunKyung Lee ◽  
MyungGeun Lee
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Learning Performance ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Web Based Learning ◽  
The Relationship

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between social learning constructs and perceived learning performance in corporate informal Web-based learning environments. The study aims at providing significant implications for corporate educators who have worked on designing social learning environments in the workplace. Design/methodology/approach To identify the casual relationship of the proposed research model, data collected from 523 South Koreans who were corporate employees and social media users were analyzed using structural equation modeling. Findings The results indicate that self-motivation, learning community and social media usage were significantly related to perceived learning performance. In addition, social media usage mediated the relationship between the other social learning constructs and the learning performance. Originality/value Given that corporate personnel typically gain job-related knowledge and skills through social learning, corporate educators need to provide learners with social learning environments that are conducive to self-motivation and learning community. Social media, when used as a learning tool, might not sufficiently improve learning performance without the help of other social learning constructs. Findings shed light on which social learning constructs are essential to effective social learning environment design in the workplace.

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