Students' perceptions of a constructivist classroom: A collaborative learning approach
Today’s classroom no longer has four walls and students no longer sit in a row to learn from a subject expert. Technologies and web 2.0 tools have walked into the classroom, and learning now happens everywhere and anytime through collaboration, sharing and reflection between the peers. These chang...
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2013
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| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | http://eprints.intimal.edu.my/175/ http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6820183/?reload=true&arnumber=6820183 |
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| الملخص: | Today’s classroom no longer has four walls and students no longer sit in a row to learn from a subject expert.
Technologies and web 2.0 tools have walked into the classroom, and learning now happens everywhere and
anytime through collaboration, sharing and reflection between the peers. These changes have connected the
students, educators, learning resources and activities into a collaborative learning environment that allow students
to personalize the learning process, and change the sole determining role of the educators. Therefore, it builds the
student-centred learning experience and makes the classroom learning to be less teacher-dependent. This research
aims at studying students’ perception on web-based collaborative learning in constructivist learning environment
which is designed based on Jonassen’s constructivist learning principle (Jonassen, 1999). In addition, web 2.0
social applications are used to engage the students in this learning approach to promote participation,
collaboration and communication along the learning process. The research question in this study is what is the
students’ perception on web-based collaborative learning in a constructivist learning environment? This research
study involves 104 Degree year 1 students as the research samples. They are exposed to the constructivist learning
environment which is embedded in a common subject that offered to all IT Degree students who at INTI
International University. This constructivist learning environment is centred at a student project of developing an
interactive multimedia application which requires students to use various skills, software tools, and approaches to
solve the ill-structure problems. Students needed to work in a group collaboratively to handle this project as it has
a large scope, complex requirements and limited time. In the project development stages, students need to
complete several tasks both individually and collaboratively, which includes project proposal, background study,
planning and progress report, content sharing and discussion. All these tasks are done with the peer interaction
through the use of various web 2.0 social tools, which are wiki, blog, social networking site. A set of
questionnaire is used to collect the student perceptions on the group collaborative learning in the constructivist
learning environment. This survey is conducted once the completion of the project and the result is then analyzed
by using SPSS to assess the reliability of the survey items, and to perform factor analysis. These statistical data is
used to uncover some meaningful facts and its underlying relationships, and subsequently, enhances the
understanding on how students perceive web-based collaborative learning in this setting. Furthermore, the
analyzed facts become the input to study the impact on the learning experience and the attitude change in a
constructivist learning environment with multimedia and web 2.0 social tools. It is expected that the outcome of
this research study emphasizes on presenting the important factors in designing the learning environment which
aims to enhance the effectiveness in collaborative learning. |
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