Learner-created scenario for investigative learning with web resources

Abstract

Web brings about a lot of opportunities for learners to investigate a topic with Web resources to learn. Such investigative learning process involves creating a scenario that explains what to and how to investigate with Web resources. However, it is quite difficult for the learners to create their own learning scenario concurrent with knowledge construction from the contents of the resources. The main issue addressed in this paper is how to scaffold learning scenario creation. This paper presents a model of investigative learning, which induces learners to create the learning scenario by decomposing the topic into sub-topics to be learned while searching and learning the Web resources. This paper also demonstrates an interactive learning scenario builder, which provides a scaffold for the learners to build their own scenario in learning with Web resources. © 2013 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.