ERIC Number: EJ987303
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007
Pages: 12
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Social Constructivist e-Learning: A Case Study
Barbour, Michael; Rich, Peter
International Electronic Journal for Leadership in Learning, v11 Article 5 2007
In this article, the authors considered the use of the software Knowledge Forum to complete a curriculum-based project with students enrolled in asynchronous, Web-based Advanced Placement courses in Canada and the United States. Knowledge Forum is an online database that promotes written interaction in a social constructivist environment. The authors investigated how students utilized the system to enhance learning, more so than the in the project's teachers' experiences in traditional environments, at both lower-order and higher-order levels. They found that students effectively interacted as a community and were able to exhibit all of the necessary analytical skills required by the activity. (Contains 3 tables.)
Descriptors: Advanced Placement, Foreign Countries, Electronic Learning, Databases, Constructivism (Learning), Web Based Instruction, Teaching Methods, Program Effectiveness, Student Projects, Asynchronous Communication, History Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Educational Technology, Social History, Social Studies, Communities of Practice, High School Students, Cooperative Learning, Access to Information
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada; United States
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