Directing Students to Meta-Recognition Utilizing Good Learning Behavior in E-Learning
Yoshiharu Yamauchi, Yusuke Kajiwara, Hiromitsu Shimakawa, Fumiko Harada · 2018
Many students do not know what to ask, even if they are stuck at something. Students who can ask questions during a class are aware of discrepancies of new items from their current knowledge. This paper proposes a method to develop web teaching materials which promote students to get the awareness. Students asking questions with which many other students are in sympathy would look back the teaching materials to confirm the discrepancies. This kind of learning behavior represents their strategy to organize new items into knowledge they have already attained. In order to make all students to take the same learning behavior, the proposed method adds a link to the web teaching material. The link would make all students look back previous explanation of the teaching materials, which gives them awareness of the strategy to organize new items into their knowledge. An experiment has verified the web teaching materials containing links to promote the awareness enhances student learning into comprehensive one. Promotion of the awareness by the proposed method can improve the student ability to construct questions, imposing loads other than learning on neither instructors nor students.