ブラックボードを活用した協働学習の実践

Abstract

This study is a report of the Japanese class which carried out the group projects using Blackboard, a learning management system for blended learning. Through the class, the instructor targeted the following three points-firstly, the communication-oriented class that learners share their ideas with others, secondly, a collaborative class that solve the problems with others, and finally, a free class from constraints of time and space. In the class, students chose the theme by themselves, presented their opinions on the subject, discussing the offline class and deepen the theme and completed the task though the online communication. The instructor provided feedback and the methodology on the theme monitoring online. It is said that advantages of Blackboard is feedback and interaction. In this class, interactions were made between learners as well as teacher and learners, actively. Learners were able to accomplish a hard task by themselves through on and off line activities. The students participated in the online discussions on the Blackboard pages such as blogs or discussion rooms: they wrote essays and leave the comments on it, while trying to expand opinions exchange and communication which may be difficult in the classroom due to time and space restrictions. Further studies are required for effective management of interactivity using the online communication.