Design And Development Of The Collaborative Learning System Based On Lotus Domino/Notes

Collaborative Learning is an approach for teaching and learning that involves groups of students working together. The network as an open information environment is better than the traditional teaching and learning environment to support flexible and open exploration activities. It is conducive to the realization of collaborative learning in support of interactions between teachers and students, between the students, between schools and communities. Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) is a groupware system under the environment of computer network technology, by which participants can break through geographical and time constraints, communicate, share information and are cooperative in education. At present, many of the CSCL technology products add some contents of collaborative learning in the Web-based teaching platform, in order to achieve network collaborative learning, which to some extent, promote the teaching and learning. But on the other hand, these platforms are also weak in capacity of the system, are difficult to achieve educational design thought, and are inadequate of collaborative learning.For the important status of collaborative learning in today's education area and some problems existing at present, the authors has designed and developed a collaborative learning system based on Lotus Domino / Notes. It is different from the traditional Web-based learning system. As a platform transplant from the enterprise application to the teaching platform, it can achieve the collaborative learning, which is without time restrictions, interactive and full of graphic illustrations. The system takes the collaborative learning as the main object to support the collaborative learning approach based on group discussions under the network environment. Collaborative learning environment includes resources space, personal space and collaboration space. On one hand, it has achieved non-real-time and real-time collaborative teaching activities for teachers and students. On the other hand, it has extended and been integrated of system functions, including collaborative editing, resources database, information platform, educational evaluation and the group communication, so as to provide the integration of design ideas and methods for the development of other network teaching and learning systems.First of all, the related concept, development and application of CSCL are introduced, and the general principle of groupware system is demonstrated. Next, the features of Lotus Domino/Notes for CSCL are analyzed, and then the system overall architecture is presented, including network topology architecture and system feature architecture. The system contains three parts: collaborative support subsystem, resource sharing subsystem and communication subsystem. All of them can be divided into more modules. A complete collaborative learning system is finished at last. This system is applied in Java technology training courses. According to the results of the system application, the conclusions analysis is drawn. Finally, the work of this study is summed up, and the lack of research and research prospects are pointed out.