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Design of Online Learning Community for Conceptual Learning in Engineering Education and the Evaluation of the Inquiry Activity Supporting Tools  

Shin, Sunhee (Dept. of Education, Kangnam University)
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Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.16, no.1, 2013 , pp. 3-14 More about this Journal
Abstract
The previously developed practical inquiry activity supporting tools, deduced from the design principles and implementation principles based on the study of precedent researches and theories, applicable to conceptual learning in engineering education were implemented to an on-line learning community, a web-based Windows application, to find out its effectiveness in actual classroom situation through experimental research. The On-line learning community includes the inquiry activity menu to implement learning procedure of inquiry based conceptual learning, the functions supporting the communication among participants, the information sharing function, the scheduling function of class and inquiry activity, the mentoring function, and the evaluation of on-line activities of learners. Experimental study were also conducted in order to analyze the effects of inquiry activity supporting tools on inquiry based conceptual learning in engineering education.
Keywords
Conceptual learning; Inquiry activity supporting tool; Inquiry based learning; Online learning community;
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