Is web-based seminar an effective way of learning in adult education?

The Internet can be used to solve pedagogical problems. To give an example, seminars for crowded courses exceeding a hundred participants would not be possible without web-based arrangements. These arrangements may provide help especially for adult learners. We organized a web-based coursework and seminar during the Knowledge Work and its Tools course for some students (experimental group). Simultaneously, we ran the same course including a conventional coursework and seminar for other students (control group). During the coursework and while in the seminar the students were expected to work in small groups. In the web-based seminar each group had their own workspace in the Web CT environment for publishing and presenting coursework. At the final phase the students were expected to familiarize themselves with the presentations of other groups. In this paper we analyze the benefit of our WWWbased seminar based on the goals of the course. At the beginning and the end of the course we an...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: HICSS
• Authors: Pekka Makkonen
• Keywords: Biometrics, Coursework, HICSS 2003, Knowledge Work, Seminar, System Sciences