Leveraging Para-Communities in Fostering Adaptive Schools: Towards Adaptive Organizations

David Hung; Der Thanq Chen

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 3777–3779

In the paper, we discuss problems related to traditional hierarchical organizations and argue that adaptability is important for organizations to survive in the 21st century. Expanding on Bransford’s (1999) notion of adaptive expert, we propose a...

Rules for Online Argumentation and Discussion: A Work in progress Report

Der-Thanq Victor Chen; David Hung

World Conference on E-Learning in Corporate, Government, Healthcare, and Higher Education 2003 (2003) pp. 2212–2215

This paper describes and discusses the Project ROAD - Rules for Online Argumentation and Discussion. The paper in particular discusses the mediating importance of rules to be well established for online discussions with the complementary emphasis of ...

Towards a Community Incubator: The ICAP Design Framework for Social Constructivist Educational Designers

Der Thanq "Victor" Chen; David Hung

World Conference on Educational Media and Technology 2008 (Jun 30, 2008) pp. 2338–2347

This paper highlights the often-mentioned mismatch between the more social constructivistic oriented pedagogy and the traditional instructional design model. Such a framework is important as a design process relevant to the work of CSCL. Any...

Topics: Community, Instructional Design

A Journey on Refining Rules for Online Discussion: Implications for the Design of Learning Management Systems

Der-thanq Chen; Yu-mei Wang; David Hung

Journal of Interactive Learning Research Vol. 20, No. 2 (April 2009) pp. 157–173

Research on asynchronous online discussions has primarily focused on their efficacy in relation to learning outcomes. Rarely are there investigations on how the design of online learning activities or how discussions could be incorporated into...

Topics: Networking Technologies, eLearning, Internet, Instructional Design, Educational Technology