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The Research Of The Virtual Learning Community For Graduate Student Based On Social Software

Posted on:2012-03-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:P DuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167330335456353Subject:Education Technology
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In this paper,the advantages of learning communities,with social software related technologies,virtual learning communities of students build models to explore an effective solution to the current course of graduate study learners feel lonely,lack of guidance,there is lack of emotional issues for the new Graduate training mode under the situation of reform to provide advice and reference for graduate students to carry out adequate academic exchanges and research collaboration to provide diversified learning space,and promote the improvement of the overall quality of graduate students.This work is comprised of four phases:literature research, theoretical research, empirical research and evaluation analysis. The author of the research and analysis of literature based on theoretical discussion and empirical research using a combination of methods, described theoretically related to the Virtual Learning Community graduate studies, surveys of educational technology graduate study characteristics and needs of the community constructivism, distributed awareness, situational awareness and situational learning theory and learning theory as a guide and other related communities, building a platform based on the needs of students based on social software features a virtual learning community model, to proceed on the basis of preliminary design and development, and platform technologies in the Southwest University graduate pplication, in the course of the study surveys to collect feedback data, and the collation and analysis to verify the effectiveness of the platform.The results show that:the graduate students to carry out social software-based virtual learning community environment for learning activities is feasible and effective. Use of virtual learning communities of academic exchanges, scientific research and effective ability to graduate students, learners in the analysis of the problem, exploring and solving capabilities are improved obviously; graduate students in the study can improve the efficiency of the academic problem solving, in order to graduate training provided a new way; can effectively promote academic exchange, knowledge construction, communication and emotional development of the collective wisdom.
Keywords/Search Tags:Social Software, Graduate Student, Virtual learning community
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