Journal of Engineering Education Research (공학교육연구)

Korean Society for Engineering Education (한국공학교육학회)
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Design of Online Learning Community for Conceptual Learning in Engineering Education and the Evaluation of the Inquiry Activity Supporting Tools

공학교육에서의 개념학습을 위한 온라인 학습 커뮤니티의 설계와 탐구활동 지원도구의 평가

  • Received : 2011.06.15
  • Accepted : 2013.01.04
  • Published : 2013.01.31
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Abstract

The previously developed practical inquiry activity supporting tools, deduced from the design principles and implementation principles based on the study of precedent researches and theories, applicable to conceptual learning in engineering education were implemented to an on-line learning community, a web-based Windows application, to find out its effectiveness in actual classroom situation through experimental research. The On-line learning community includes the inquiry activity menu to implement learning procedure of inquiry based conceptual learning, the functions supporting the communication among participants, the information sharing function, the scheduling function of class and inquiry activity, the mentoring function, and the evaluation of on-line activities of learners. Experimental study were also conducted in order to analyze the effects of inquiry activity supporting tools on inquiry based conceptual learning in engineering education.

공학교육에 적용할 목적으로 효율적이고 정확한 개념 습득을 위한 탐구기반 개념학습 모형을 도입하고 이를 지원하는 탐구활동 지원도구를 개발하였다. 또한 이를 실제 교육현장에 적용하기 위하여 Windows 웹기반 응용프로그램인 온라인 학습 커뮤니티를 구축하였다. 여기에는 탐구기반 개념학습의 수업절차를 수행할 수 있도록 탐구활동 메뉴, 구성원 간의 커뮤니케이션 지원 기능, 정보공유 기능, 수업 및 탐구활동 스케쥴링 기능, 멘토링 기능, 온라인 활동 평가 기능 등이 포함되었다. 본 연구에서는 도출된 탐구활동 지원도구의 유용성을 검증하고 탐구활동 지원도구가 공학교육에서의 탐구기반 개념학습에 미치는 영향을 실험연구를 통하여 조사하고자 하였다. 실험연구 결과, 실험집단에게 탐구활동 지원도구를 오프라인 및 온라인으로 제공함으로써 비교집단에 비해 높은 메타인지와 효율적인 학습 수행을 지원하는 것이 가능하였으며 탐구활동을 촉진시킬 수 있음을 확인하였다. 또한, 학습자들의 개념이해능력에 있어서 탐구기반 개념학습의 수업절차, 탐구활동 지원도구, 교수자의 지원활동이 적용된 실험집단이 유의미한 차이를 보이는 것을 확인하였다.

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