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Sabrina Geißler, Thorsten Hampel, Reinhard Keil-Slawik
From the Virtual Knowledge Space to a Learning Environment – Cooperative Learning as Integrative Approach to Educational Technology
Current e-learning environments can often be characterized as “one-way road to learning” as they do only provide functions to combine the production, publication and reception (mostly reading) of learning material; students cannot modify or integrate it into other contexts. Furthermore, several developments in the domain of computer supported cooperative work and learning provide new means for synchronous interaction between teachers and learners. As far as both approaches focus on the independency of place and time, the learning components are only treated as isolated elements. In contrast to that, we emphasize the integration rather than separation of all place- and time-dependent processes which occur in a learning and teaching environment. To accomplish this, we base our work on the concept of virtual knowledge spaces in combination with a three-level-approach to modularization. This allows us to provide support for a great variety of individual and cooperative forms of learning, distinguishing diligently a conceptual, a technical, and a presentational point of view. Finally, a learning environment designed for a “classical” university course on software ergonomics shall help to illustrate the practical consequences and benefits of such a multiperspective approach.
i-com, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag
Print ISSN: 1618-162X
Volume: 03, 02/2004
Pages: 005 - 012