Virtual Learning Environments: Using Online Course Management Systems to Implement Constructivism in Learning at the Secondary Level
In today’s educational system, ideas concerning course design, teacher and student roles, methods of delivery, and evaluation are being changed. The acceptance of the Internet as an educational tool has altered the traditional environment of the classroom. For many teachers, conventional delivery me...
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| Online Access: | http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.98.5359 http://moodle.org/other/dEntremont_Final_Paper.pdf |
| Summary: | In today’s educational system, ideas concerning course design, teacher and student roles, methods of delivery, and evaluation are being changed. The acceptance of the Internet as an educational tool has altered the traditional environment of the classroom. For many teachers, conventional delivery methods have been replaced with an online alternative, one which cannot proceed in the same manner as the dynamic within the classroom. In technology courses as well as courses which use technology, constructivism has been touted as the learning theory that will extract the knowledge of the learners through sharing and working together to build the knowledge base of the learner. In Newfoundland, courses that use technology in their delivery have shifted from a drill and practice, didactic, traditional, or teacher-directed approaches to more student-centered approaches such as constructivism. This shift to constructivist theory has |
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