| Web-based Collaborative Learning (WebCL) has been a major focus since its rising, development till the widespread application, and has been welcomed in practice by learners. This learning method highly values the collaborative communication during the learning process, especially the man-to-man interaction and thus can eliminate the learners' feeling of loneliness, improve the effectiveness of the web-based learning. Numerous achievements have been made in the research and practice of the WebCL both at home and abroad and also this learning method is proved to be effective in modern distance learning. However, the platform of present web-based learning cannot always meet the demands of the learners' communication and interaction very well, and most learners are just peripheral participants of learning.With the approach of Web2.0 era, there appear much open and easy-to-operate social software, all of which are possessed of powerful interactive functions and accordingly enables common net-users to be the owners of the web, enhances the collaboration and interaction among users and also provides a variety of supporting tools for the education.As a result, the author proposes combining the current social software with the present platform of web-based learning to enhance the support to the interaction in the web learning.To further research this problem, the author firstly studied the present situation and theoretical foundations of interaction in WebCL, and gave a general summary and analysis. Then a research was conducted on the interpersonal interactive situation of the platform based on the virtual learning community of Capital Normal University. At last, there was a discussion of the two social softwares on the effects of interpersonal interaction to better exploit the advantages of web-based learning.Several research methods were adopted during the writing, i.e.: questionnaires, deductive reasoning, statistical analysis, content analysis etc. |
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