사이버공간에서의 “교육적 경험”을 위한 학습 환경 설계 = Constructing Learning Environment for “Educative Experience” in Cyberspace

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The alternative perspectives of educational paradigm mostly emphasize the reconceptualization of learners as active subjects, knowledge as an object to continuously reconstruct, and educational environments as a field to support flexibly and responsively to the needs of diverse students. The utilization of cyberspace, an invisible space to build into computer network systems, promises its potentials to proceed educational reform. Many educators have discussed the positive and negative effects of utilization of cyberspace in teaching-learning processes. So does the human experience in the real life world, that in the cyberspace is not in itself educative, nor mis-educative. Therefore, the urgent issues are to discriminate the genuine educative value of experience, and then to establish an appropriate learning situation for educative experience in cyberspace. The purpose of this study is to explore the theoretical and methodological aspects for constructing learning environment for “educative experience” in cyberspace. First, I describe the features of learners` experience in cyberspace. Secondly, I explicate the meanings and methodological principles of educative experience in Dewey`s thought as one of the theoretical foundations about educative experience in cyberspace. Finally, I discuss the implication for constructing a learning environment by integrating the characteristics of cyberspace, Dewey`s principles of educative experience, and the existing research efforts on the web-based education in terms of assumptions, learners and instructors, learning contents and methods, and support systems.