[This project is suitable as a project. However, parts of it can also be offered as essay, if needed]
Collaborative learning and especially learning together in online learning groups has several advantages. However, when students learn together in online learning groups, several factors such as students? behavior, characteristics, and roles in the groups affect the performance of the group as well as the performance of each group member. This project deals with identifying such factors in online learning groups and reporting them to learners and/or teachers in order to improve the collaborative learning process. For example, such a factor can deal with the active participation in group discussions, where the system can ask a learner, who is not participating in group discussions, to post his/her opinion regarding the topic.
The first part of this project deals with investigating which factors have effects on the performance of groups and group members. In the second part, some of these factors are selected and investigations are performed about how these factors can be identified in online learning groups. This part of the project is based on the iCORE research program, which aims at exploring and developing different applications and content delivery systems for personalized mobile learning. The third part deals with the implementation of a system/service that is able to identify the selected factors and presenting suitable hints to learners and/or teachers. The system/service will be developed using technologies such as Java and PHP. Furthermore, the system/service will be developed in a general way so that it is easy to use for different learning systems. |
