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notification module must notify all students to submit quiz answer. Since we can not expect that learners stay
on the collaborative learning system all the times, immediate notification to perform action is not necessary.
Therefore, the notification can use the action history, as illustrated in figure 4, to generate notification
information once a learner log in the collaborative learning system.
Requirement Instructor’s Tasks Facilities
regulation of
learning model
Control of learning
action
Notification and
guidance
Organizing learning group,
Assigning roles,
Regulating each role’s capability,
Regulating each role’s responsibility
Monitoring learners’ action,
Checking the accessibility of actions, and
Present learning material
Monitoring learners’ action,
notify learners
Activity regulation tool with learning
group, role assignment and MTL for
specifying capability and responsibility
Instructor support system for checking of
the learning actions, and dynamically
generating HTML file
Instructor support system for generation
of notification
Table 1. Summary of requirement, instructors’ task and supported facilities
We provide facility for instructors to regulate intended collaborative learning model, control learning actions,
and generate notification information. Table 1 summarizes the requirements, the instructor’s tasks to enact
collaborative learning on the Web, and the facilities provided in this investigation.
Conclusion
The creation of learning environments that renders learning more active is initiating challenges for
research on learning (Barfurth 1995). The idea of the investigation comes from different instructors may desire
different collaborative learning models to promote learning effect in distance learning environments. The
architecture of the devised learning web site system fulfills the ideal to relieve instructors’ tasks in supporting
desired collaborative learning models on the Web. Instructors can regulate desired learning model by the use
of devised activity regulation tool, regardless of writing complex programs. The instructor support system
automates the guidance and control of learners’ learning actions. Instructors may consequently support desired
collaborative learning model on the Web easily and quickly.
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