| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊管理學系碩士班 === 95 === This research will determine teachers and students’ roles in an e-learning environment. We predict that teacher-student interaction in an e-learning environment will affect the study outcome. During our research, we interviewed eight teachers and twenty-night students who actively use the e-learning environment. Through the grounded theory research method, we discovered teacher and student roles, and then constructed the interaction model. Finally, we used the model of technology frame to describe teacher and student roles.
After analysis using grounded theory, we found out teacher’s role as an instruct, a manager, a mentor, a learner and a technology specialist. The role of learner and technology specialist surpass traditional learning environment roles, as defind in recent literature. Students play the role of a learner who gives two-way interaction, an nstructora mentor, a technology specialist and a manger who provides learning resources, and controls the learning process. We discovered teachers and students have the same behavior in instructor, mentor and learner roles. However, they have different behavior in the manager and technology specialist roles.
The contribution of this research on teacher’s roles is to help teachers realize others’ expectations so that they can reduce the posibility of role conflict and role ambiguity. This research also allows students to understand that they can play various roles and that they are not passive learners in an e-learning environment.
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