In these days it's not hard to find out that most classrooms are built on computer based environment with the internet. For this educational trend, instruction and learning technologies based on the internet are now being developed and improved in the...
In these days it's not hard to find out that most classrooms are built on computer based environment with the internet. For this educational trend, instruction and learning technologies based on the internet are now being developed and improved in the aspect of telecommunication and information system. It is clear that a variety of instructional tools can play a major role in stimulating motivations of students, however, this is not easily applied to our traditional classroom.
The internet is the cyberspace where plenty of information around the world can be found, and all kinds of information are added and updated every single minute. Therefore, the internet would be a valuable material for education. Especially, animated and dynamic information from the internet, which would not be found in ordinary textbooks, can draw students' attention and interest more strongly.
This study focuses to research the effective instruction and learning technology using practical web information, especially to see the learning effect of those information when they are used as instructional tools in classroom. This study aims to analyze the effect on learning achievement and attitude of students by applying web-based instruction method. The experiment has designed two different instructional methods. The first group is applied by traditional instruction method. The second group is applied by web-based instruction method. The experimental treatments have been carried out for four weeks with geography subjects of the first graders of four classes in a co-educational middle school in Seoul. This study employes statistical methods including ANOVA in order to test research hypotheses.
The major findings of this study are as follows:
First, students who were taught by web based instruction showed much higher score in achievement level than that of students taught by traditional method. So, it can be said that web based instruction seems to have better impact on students' learning.
Second, students with web-based instruction method showed much higher levels in terms of learning interest, satisfaction, and studying motivation than students with traditional instructional method. Students wanted to use various information from the internet continuously and to study with more visual and auditory materials. This study can support the idea that web information, which definitely have visual and sound effect, would be applicable as effective instructional materials.
Third, students with high learning ability level recognized the web based instruction more positively than students with middle and low learning ability level.
It can be concluded that the web-based instruction method can draw out more positive attitudes toward school, can improve students learning motivation, and enhance interests for geography subject according to questionnaire survey. The web-based instruction method is suggestive to be better and more effective than traditional instruction method in terms of students learning achievement, learning attitudes, and learning interests when they are well-constructed to instruction and learning.