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Kana SOYAMASOYAMA-GOBAYASHIGOBAYASHI, Juunko NEMOTO,NEMOTO Katsuaki SUZUKI

This researchThih analyzed
ly d th
the ggroupp workk off students
t d t ini an e-learning
li g course “Instructional“I t ti l Design
D ig I” att an online
li graduate
g d t schoolh l anddexaminedi d hhow tto iimplement
plt CSCL effectively.
ff ti ly Th
The analysis
ly i off thh proposals
hep p l forf educationald ti l materials
t i l theyth y submitted,
b itt d theirth imessages on the discussion boards and retrospective interviews gaave some clues to effective CSCL.
CSCL Based on them the authors
prepared a checklist to help them to improve their group work andd incorporated it into the course.
courseBackgroundg“Instructional
Instructional DesignⅠ
DesignⅠ”•A required ee-learninglearning
course for the firstyear master’smaster s students(started to be offeredin 2006)•
12 students (in 2009;
All are workingadults)d l )•They design
design, develop,develop
evaluate paper
paper-based
based
lea i g materials
learninga e ials aand
dl
learn
th
the bbasic
i off
Instr ctional Design
Instructional
Design.
g

Course structure
6

1～5 sessions

7

Self st dy
Self-study
Learn withL
ith
textbook
and online
tests

Draft
D
ft
proposalsppforeducational
materials

8～15

Learning
g in groups
ggro pps of 3
Discuuss onbullettinboardds toi p ove
improoeach
h other’s
th ’propo
pposals

Revise andsubmit their
proposals

Th reThe
esearchh focusfGett theGthOKO
instructor’scomments NG

Develop andevaluate theireducational
materials

Revise andsubmit their
proposals
l againiEveryy yyear not a few students faail to ppass the 7th session on their first attempt,attemptpwhich implies that their group w
work did not help them to improve their proposals enough.
enough⇒The authors conducted an anaalysis on the 2009 course.
courseInstructional Design (ID) represents the processes of instructional maaterial development ,…and a framework for the final instructional
pproductd so as to improvei ptheh effectivenessff iandd appeal
pp l off theh leal arning
i g resources. (Suzuki((S ki et al.,l , 2004))
CSCL stands
t d ffor Computer-Supported
C p t S pp t d Cooperative/Collaborative
C p ti /C ll b ti Learn
L ning.
i gAnalysis on their proposals and BBS••

The comparisonTh
p ibbetweentth
the ddraft
ft andd th
the revisedi d proposals
p p lshowed that some parts of their proposals were improved fairly
through their group work but other parts were not improved at all:
Designing reasonable pretests and posttests seemed to be one of
the most difficult tasks for themthem.
The first author read the discussion on the online message board
and tried to detect whose and which part of the messages triggered
their revisions and contributed to their improvements.

Retrospective Interviews••The fiThfirstt author
th interviewed
i t i
d fi
five off ththe students
t d t tot knowk
whether her detection was right
right, and to collect information onwhat happened and what they thought in their group work andthe whole course.
course
The interview result also showed that they had difficulty inrealizing their own misunderstandings or in pointing out theother group members’
members mistakes.
mistakes

Developingl p g a checklist
h kl ffor successful
f l proposals
p pl• BasedB d on ththese results
lt
the authors made achecklist of 42 items tohelp the students notice
their mistakes and to
facilitate their group work.
• ThisThis cchecklist
hecklist wasi
incorporated
p t d iin theth 2010
co rse and the evaluation
coursee al ation
will follow
follow.

The instruction of 7 th session of ID １ /2010“You can download anduse the checklist herehere.”

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