Our research objectives include constructing a collaborative learning support system that detects appropriate situation for a learner to join in a collaborative learning session, and forms a collaborative learning group appropriate for the situation dynamically. In this paper, we describe the outline of a system of concepts concerning learning goals expected to attain by learners through collab...

In this paper we discuss some basic theories of learning and e-Learning. With the light of the appropriate theories, we then describe the components and particular features of our e-Learning system, the Learn IN Context System (LINC). This tool aims to be used in institution’s courses in mixed-mode learning. Finally, we report our initial experimentation with this tool and some preliminary resu...

Enhancement of learning with technology has been accelerating thanks to the advancement of information technology (IT) and the development of IT standards for learning. The purpose of this study is to build a still more advanced engineering infrastructure of utilization of instructional and learning theories for practitioners in line with such development. This paper discusses a modeling framew...

This purpose of this paper is to identify implications of various learning theories for workplace learning and performance and HRD. It begins with a review of various theoretical positions on learning including behaviorism, Gestalt theory, cognitive theory, schema theory, connectionist theory, social learning or behavior modeling, social perspective theory, and situated cognition theory. Implic...

The author discusses the ways in which psychoanalytic theories, like other theories, attempt to systematise the understanding of observations. Freud remarked that systems also have unconscious meanings. The author discusses these unconscious vicissitudes of psychoanalytic theories of both clinical and more abstract kinds, at various levels of psychological function. Learning psychoanalysis repe...

Software engineering education has acquired a notorious reputation for producing students that are ill-prepared for being productive in real-world software engineering settings. Although much attention has been devoted to improving the state of affairs in recent years, it still remains a difficult problem with no obvious solutions. In this paper, I attempt to discover some of the roots of the p...

Many of software designers of Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environment have been suffering with complex and subtle educational requirements offered by clients. One of major causes of the problem they face is the lack of shared understanding of collaborative learning. We do not know what design rationale of CSCL environment is and even do not have common vocabulary to describ...

Although existing educational systems are based on various learning theories, these theories are rarely used when developing feedback. Our research is based on the theory of learning from performance errors, which suggests that feedback should provide long and short-term learning advantages through revision of faulty knowledge in the context of learners’ errors. We hypothesized that principled,...