| Summary: | 碩士 === 淡江大學 === 資訊工程學系碩士班 === 98 === This paper implements a teaching and learning system based on structural tension. The system architecture, first proposed by Hsing-Tai Chung, is developed and integrated from several concepts and sources, including structural tension from Robert Fritz, knowledge worker from Peter Drucker, eight habits for high productivity from Stephen Covey, disciplines in “Good to Great”from Jim Collins, and PBL (Problem Based Learning) learning theory. The experiments have been carried out in the last two years in different courses with the emphasis of proactive learning, and have shown significant improvements in proactive learning. However, it creates tremendous load for the teacher to grade students’ reports because we can use only available tools such as Excel or Evernote for students to write their learning reports, thus creating the urgent and essential requirement to develop an information system for our needs.
The functional modules developed so far include writing of the weekly learning report, quick grading and feedback for the teacher, instant grade lookup and analysis, information exchange and sharing, interactions and opinions exchange among students and teacher, etc. After a semester of test run, the system operation is basically stable. More functional modules can be further added and improved. In the long run, we hope this system can be spread and benefit to more teacher and students.
The system is developed as a Web application and can be accessed by a Web browser. The technologies used include Java, Google Web Toolkit, GWT-Ext, and AJAX.
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