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USING CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY IN E-LEARNING EFFECTIVELY
USING CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY IN E-LEARNING EFFECTIVELY

Author(s): Mihaela Aurelia Ștefan
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education, Higher Education
Published by: Carol I National Defence University Publishing House
Keywords: didactical professionalization; constructivist approach; e-learning; autonomy; self-directing; metacognition.

Summary/Abstract: Constructivism is a theory of learning centered on apprenticeship in scientific knowledge of reality, bringing science as a process in school. If traditional training focus is on the teacher, on his teaching activity in order to achieve certain objectives, standardized ,in constructivism learning important is the reality known being interpreted, understood by each student's own. Under the new constructivist guidelines there is no longer focus on the reception of transmitted information, but it is intended that pupils / students to critically analyze, solve varied cooperate, teacher having the role to guide and facilitate learning activity. In this paper we assume that e-learning offers to students the opportunity to learn constructivist and vice versa, using educational situations where ICT resources are significant use, the autodidact has the ability to document himself , to obtain updated information, to enrich the vocabulary of the domain of interest, to develop strategies for building knowledge. To validate the previous assumption, the methods used were: systematic observation, questionnaire, focus group interview. From our investigative analysis approach, we split opinions/beliefs of students about the process of e-learning, we recorded systematic observations on the behavior of learning in the educational activity. This study is intended as a support, in understanding the complexity of academic learning, emphasizing the idea that the professionalization of teaching, a constructivist learning requires and develops e-learning capabilities. Passionate student of a particular area, certainly will not limitate himself to a course support, he sought to consult other virtual bibliographic sources to discover, build by multimedia, structured and focused informations.

  • Issue Year: 13/2017
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 244-249
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: English