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Developing REALSpace: Discourse on a Student-Centered Creative Knowledge Environment for Virtual Communities of Learning

Developing REALSpace: Discourse on a Student-Centered Creative Knowledge Environment for Virtual Communities of Learning

Kam Hou Vat
Copyright: © 2009 |Volume: 1 |Issue: 1 |Pages: 32
ISSN: 1942-9010|EISSN: 1942-9029|ISSN: 1942-9010|EISBN13: 9781615204427|EISSN: 1942-9029|DOI: 10.4018/jvcsn.2009010105
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Vat, Kam Hou. "Developing REALSpace: Discourse on a Student-Centered Creative Knowledge Environment for Virtual Communities of Learning." IJVCSN vol.1, no.1 2009: pp.43-74. http://doi.org/10.4018/jvcsn.2009010105

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Vat, K. H. (2009). Developing REALSpace: Discourse on a Student-Centered Creative Knowledge Environment for Virtual Communities of Learning. International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN), 1(1), 43-74. http://doi.org/10.4018/jvcsn.2009010105

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Vat, Kam Hou. "Developing REALSpace: Discourse on a Student-Centered Creative Knowledge Environment for Virtual Communities of Learning," International Journal of Virtual Communities and Social Networking (IJVCSN) 1, no.1: 43-74. http://doi.org/10.4018/jvcsn.2009010105

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Abstract

This manuscript is to provide an action research report on the issues behind the prototyping of a student-centered creative knowledge environment (CKE), which focuses on developing student responsibility, making learning meaningful, promoting overt knowledge construction, performing learner assessment, and showcasing learner achievements. The primary idea is to create an electronic knowledge space where students are enabled to learn through constructing rich portfolios of knowledge work. The issue of learner responsibility lies in student’s willingness to identify learning deficits, setting goals, managing the learning process, and monitoring the learning strategies they use. The issue of meaningful learning lies in providing students with realistic problems, which are conducive to the development of capable problem solvers. The issue of active knowledge construction lies in providing students with opportunities to engage in high-level thinking, reflection, and articulation activities, with suitable support to scaffold students in their pursuit of active learning.

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