Improvement of Management Method in Cooperating Campus Lecture and Web Based Collaborative Learning

Abstract

This paper proposes the learning method for improving the traditional lecture of the subjects about social science in the university and studying those management factors of this learning method. This method aims at uniting two learning methods, the traditional lecture teaching mainly knowledge and the Web based collaborative learning emphasizing interaction between learners and producing the active learning.

The outline of this method is as follows. First, the students learn the knowledge and the concepts about the subject in the classroom. They present the essays of the given theme on Web. Next, each student reads the essays of the other students, compares his one with them, and discusses on Web. Then, they enhance each essay. Through this interaction process, they can get multilateral understanding and write the better essays.

In 2003, 2004 and 2005, this method was practiced for the total number of 12 semesters and we acquired some managerial knowledge of education in this method.