Development of the WBL system to complement lectures for teacher professional development

Author

Morita, Yusuke ; Sone, Naoto ; Mashiko, Norifumi ; Kawakami, Ayako

Author_Institution

Fac. of Educ., Nagasaki Univ., Japan

fYear

2002

fDate

3-6 Dec. 2002

Firstpage

1474

Abstract

In this study, a Web based-learning (WBL) system to complement lectures for teacher professional development was developed and evaluated by five points of view. The WBL courses using prior inference task were developed by Mashiko (2001) to exploit the lectures. The system including the courses had three function modes, (1) administrator mode, (2) learners mode and (3) instructor mode, are integrated using RDBMS. The learners estimated usefulness and practicability of the system for professional development of teachers especially the interaction in the online asynchronous forum with the face pictures of learners was valued.

Keywords

computer aided instruction; information resources; relational databases; teacher training; RDBMS; Web based-learning system; administrator mode; face pictures; instructor mode; learners mode; online asynchronous forum interaction; prior inference task; teacher professional development; Best practices; Distance learning; Education; Educational programs; Feedback; Information processing; Linux; Operating systems; Streaming media; Web server;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computers in Education, 2002. Proceedings. International Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1509-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CIE.2002.1186303

Filename

1186303