A Development of Kolb's Learning Style Based Team Organization Support System

Kolb의 학습양식에 기반 한 팀 조직 지원 시스템 개발

The purpose of this research is to develop a prototype of the support system in order for team building associated with web-based project learning having applied Kolb's learning style. To accomplish this purpose, the following research tasks were performed. First, core idea in order to embody the system's value, key activities, tools that will support pertinent activities and the strategy so as to develop guidelines, etc. were devised and prepared. Second, a system was designed on the basis of structural model of teaching design, then after, interface was developed. The core factors in this system are inspection of learning style, organizing a team and team building. Above all, it is required to make learners know about learning environments, of which they are in favor, and also its distinctive features through inspection of learning style, and then focusing on learning style, a team should be organized insomuch as to accommodate a variety of learning styles as much as possible. For the purpose of team building, after learning style of each constituent member of the team has been made known, then the roles will be divided among the constituent members of the team so as to suit their individual characteristics referring to each of their learning styles that have been exposed. To verify the value of this system developed and efficiency thereof, a focus group interview was conducted. The focus group consisted of professionals, all from related fields. After the interview, the points required to make further improvements were elicited and taken care of by follow-up actions as needed. And having reflected such improvements made, the final system was developed. With this newly developed system, learners can get the results of inspection of learning style so quickly by performing inspection any time any where, and based on the results from such inspection, a team comprising dissimilar constituents who exhibit a variety of different propensities will be automatically organized. Thus, this system may be used not only for web-based project learning having unspecified persons elected as constituents, but in the offline space also.

본 연구는 Kolb의 학습양식 기반의 팀 조직 시스템의 프로토타입을 개발하는 데 목적이 있으며, 이러한 목적을 달성하기 위하여, 첫째, 시스템의 가치를 구현하기 위한 핵심아이디어와 핵심 활동, 활동을 지원하는 도구, 그리고 가이드라인 등에 대한 개발 전략을 도출하고, 둘째, 교수설계 구조모형을 바탕으로 하여 시스템을 설계한 후 인터페이스를 개발하는 것이다. 본 시스템에서 핵심적인 요소는 학습양식 검사를 통하여 효과적인 팀을 조직하는 것이다. 우선, 학습양식 검사를 통해 학습자가 자신이 선호하는 학습 환경이나 특징을 파악한 후, 다양한 학습양식을 가진 사람들이 팀을 구성하도록 한다. 팀 조직하기는 각 팀 구성원의 학습양식을 공개한 후, 이를 기준으로 하여 팀 구성원의 특성에 맞는 역할을 분담한다. 개발된 시스템의 가치와 효율성을 검증하기 위해 전문가들로 구성된 포커스그룹 인터뷰를 실시하여 시스템의 개선점을 도출한 후, 이를 반영한 최종 시스템을 개발하였다. 본 시스템은 학습자들이 언제, 어디서나 학습양식 검사를 수행하여 즉시 결과를 제공받을 수 있고, 또한 학습양식 검사 결과를 바탕으로 다양한 성향을 가진 이질적인 구성원으로 팀이 자동 구성된다. 따라서 본 시스템은 불특정 구성원을 대상으로 한 웹기반 프로젝트학습에서 뿐만 아니라, 오프라인 공간에서도 활용할 수 있을 것이다.