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Gold Peach
Web Community 2000:
A Research on Developing Web-Based
Interactive Learning Environment
Wu, Tung-Xiung; Yui-Liang Chen
Dept. of Information Management,
Shih Hsin University
Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
‘Wu’ in Chinese
Objective and Significance
 Series
research from 1996 to 2000
 A Web
Community service for children
 Cultural
and Cultivation
 A quasi
experiment including 3 schools
 Four
user interfaces developed
Web Community
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Organization of community
Learning activity
Learning material
Moderation and moderator
NEW: integrated interaction model
Website Model: radiation
Web Community Model: ii
Culture
 Internet brings the world into a village
 Pluralistic colors are also vanishing?
 Grow similar faces, wear same uniforms
 Interactions are in consistent pattern
 Young generation is losing their heritage
 Ignored or forgot cultural imagination
Cultivation
 Media sociology
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The medium is the message
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Recognition, attitudes, and behavior
 ‘TV cultivation theories’ in 70s ~80s
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‘Media reality’ v.s. ‘Real reality’
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‘TV children syndrome’
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Positive angle: inspire one’s mental potential
 WWW is the most powerful media next to TV
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Web design is a community more than mechanism
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Cultivation found by a two-way feedback system
Methodology
 Literature
 Depth
reviews
interviewing with focus group
 Web
systems analysis and design
 Field
study on focus group
 Quasi
experiment
Results: Community Environment
 Gold
peach is a magic fruit to navigate
 The story of the venture tour to west
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Role playing: magic monkey, pig monk,etc.
Gold peach garden: www navigation
Monsters’ forbidden area: CAI
Flower island: chat rooms with moderators
 Community
moderators system
 Teacher or expert users to be in charge
 South heaven palace: verification
Result: Interactive Learning
Discussion
 Web
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Community: A progressive idea
Improve traditional one-way teaching
Realize total peripheral participation
Learn and solve problems
Share knowledge
Discussion
 Culture:
an introspective trace
 Deficiency
 Excess
 Integration
Deficiency
Excess
Integration
Discussion
 Cultivation:
a ferment attempt
 Feedback systems
 Users learning behaviors and achievement
 Suitable and interesting materials
 Time series effect than a sudden change
 Future:
 A large scaled and longitudinal experiment
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