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Serdar Çiftci and Mehmet Akif Ocak<br />

Revision: In revision stage, opportunities for changes are given to the students to plan the whole<br />

process again and allow them to see what they did before. Students finding themselves insufficient<br />

and are not confident with the current situation might return to previous topics and change their plans<br />

in revision.<br />

2.2 Development and application of the MMT<br />

In application, MySQL Database Management Course was administered to the students through the<br />

web based <strong>learning</strong> environment. Students, with a period of 6 weeks of training, received instruction<br />

via the web and used metacognitive mapping tool as a means of support. Learning environment and<br />

metacognitive mapping tool were constructed via PHP programming language and MySQL database<br />

management system. Throughout the development of the MMT, expert opinions on content, <strong>learning</strong><br />

environment and the MMT were obtained. Some revisions have been made based on the feedback<br />

obtained from the experts. Figure 3, 4 and 5 show screenshots of the MMT tool. Figure 3 shows the<br />

main screen of the web based environment and the MMT.<br />

Figure 3: MMT in the web based <strong>learning</strong> environment<br />

Figure 4 shows the first face of the planning section of the tool.In this section, students are allowed to<br />

choose the topics they will study from the existing course content by using drag and drop method.<br />

Figure 4: First phase of the planning section of the MMT<br />

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