Web-based Learning Solutions for Communities of Practice

CONCLUSION
Our practical goal is to convince our faculty of
the value of e-learning by providing them with
hands on experiences in effective online education.
In this paper, a mentoring module of LMS and a
leaning design repository (utilizing the proposed
evaluation scale) was developed as to achieve
our goal. The developed systems and tools are
important components of knowledge circulated
management system, which will be the core system
for organizational collaboration in our university.
Learning activity integration system has a learner
classification function in a mentoring module and a
case-based reasoning function in a learning design
repository. The created data set, stored in DBs,
will be used to make instructional knowledge and
assessment knowledge in the near future. It will
allow instructors to reuse the new knowledge for
daily e-learning. Even though we are currently
using these systems and tools separately, their effects
on educational practice are high as indicated
by the results shown in this paper.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
This research was partially supported by the Ministry
of Education, Science and Culture, Grantin-Aid
for Scientific Research (A), 20240069,
2008-2011 for technical parts, and Grant-in-Aid
for Scientific Research (B), 18300298, 2006-2008
for pedagogical parts.
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