Promotion of self-assessment for learners in online discussion using the visualization software Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005 the Next 10 Years, 2017
Challenges for the enhancement of learning activities on electronic discussion forums: With tools and educational programs Satoru Fujitani Proceedings the 7th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies Icalt 2007, 2007 For fruitful learning activities throughout electronic discussion forums, learning designers might offer appropriate reflections from the learning environment. In this paper, the author introduces two challenges with enhancement of activities on electronic discussion forums. One is to assess communication among learners in the CSCL. The method proposed in this paper is to visualize discussions by focusing on the relationship between topic keywords and each learner using a correspondence analysis. The correspondence map made by the analysis could represent topic parts and learners' commitment in the learning community. The other is to design science educational programs dealing with emerging science and technology. The programs promote collaborative learning activities that research and examine emerging science and technology through interfacing between middle and high school students with volunteers via websites. Providing the reflection of their own activities from different approaches, tools and educational programs, reveals important focus that both cognitive modes of educational support are meaningful for complementary progress to learners.
Building virtual learning community with authentic problem-based learning activities : For exploring emerging science and technology Webist 2007 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies Proceedings, 2007
Promotion of self-assessment for learners in online discussion using the visualization software Toshio Mochizuki, Hiroshi Kato, Satoru Fujitani, Kazaru Yaegashi, Shin-ichi Hisamatsu, Tomoko Nagata, Jun Nakahara, Toshihisa Nishimori User Centered Design of Online Learning Communities, 2006 This chapter describes a method of self-assessment for learners in a collaborative discussion. The authors propose this method of self-assessment in an online discussion and examine its effectiveness through the development and evaluation of a software program in order to visualize the discussion on a Bulletin Board System (BBS). The software, referred to as the “Bulletin board Enrollee Envisioner” (i-Bee), can visually display the co-occurrence relation between keywords and learners. Thus, i-Bee can display content-wise contributions made by each learner to the discussion. In addition, i-Bee can display the recent level of participation of each learner and the frequency of the learner’s use of each keyword. Through the evaluation, the authors revealed that i-Bee enables students to assess and reflect upon their discussion, understand the condition, and reorganize their commitment in a discussion that reflects their learning activity.
Promotion of self-assessment for learners in online discussion using the visualization software Toshio Mochizuki, Hiroshi Kato, Kazaru Yaegashi, Tomoko Nagata, Toshihisa Nishimori, Shin-ichi Hisamatsu, Satoru Fujitani, Jun Nakahara, Mariko Suzuki Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005 the Next 10 Years Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Learning 2005 Cscl 2005, 2005 This study describes a method of self-assessment for learners in a collaborative discussion. The authors propose a method of self-assessment in an online discussion and examine its effectiveness through the development and evaluation of a software program to visualize the discussion on a Bulletin Board System. The software, referred to as "i-Bee" (Bulletin board Enrollee Envisioner), can visually display the co-occurrence relation between keywords and learners. Thus, the i-Bee can display the content-wise contribution made by each learner to the discussion. In addition, the i-Bee can display the recent level of participation of each learner and the frequency of each keyword used by the learners. The i-Bee enables students to assess and reflect over their discussion, to understand the condition, and to reorganize their commitment in a discussion reflecting their learning activity.
Design of web-based support system of educational programs for Museum of Science and Innovation S. Fujitani, S. Mitsuishi, M. Makihara Proceedings International Conference on Computers in Education Icce 2002, 2002 This paper describes ongoing research of design of web-based support system for educational program held in a science museum. We are now going to develop the system at National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation in Tokyo, Japan. Educators and learners can access to the web site for making learning activity plan, searching learning resources, carrying out their researches, and discussing with people involved in the museum. The system will aim at offering the science museum as a learning environment which explains the importance of science and technology, and the pleasure of research.
Evaluation of Japanese-English CALL tool supporting contextual language acquisitions A. Pershin, S. Fujitani, K. Akahori Proceedings International Conference on Computers in Education Icce 2002, 2002 This paper describes and evaluates the Computer Assisted Language Learning (CALL) Tool, which supports contextual language acquisitions. The CALL Tool searches for and retrieves parallel texts, while aligning unedited Japanese-English parallel texts from the World Wide Web [Pershin, Akahori, 2001]. We compared the proposed tool with an existing system by conducting an experiment that showed our system's effectiveness in phrase acquisition, discourse-structure acquisition and text comprehension. However, this experiment also exposed the drawbacks of the proposed system, such as a poor interface design. We concluded that the proposed system could be used together with existing systems to increase the number of learning strategies available for language learners.
