Document Type
Conference Paper
Disciplines
1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE, Computer Sciences
Abstract
Social constructivism is grounded on the construction of information with a focus on collaborative learning through social interactions. However, it tends to ignore the human mental architecture, pillar of cognitivism. A characteristic of cognitivism is that instructional designs built upon it are generally explicit, contrarily to constructivism. This position paper proposes a novel learning task that is aimed at combining both the approaches through the use of trigger questions in a collaborative activity executed after a traditional delivery of instructions. To evaluate this new task, a metric of efficiency based upon a measure of mental workload and a measure of performance is proposed. The former measure is taken from Ergonomics, and two well know subjective self-reporting mental workload assessment techniques are envisioned. The latter measure is taken from an objective quantitative assessment of the performance of learners employing concept maps.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.5220/0006790702920302
Recommended Citation
Longo, L. et al. (2018) An Investigation of the Impact of a Social Constructivist Teaching Approach, based on Trigger Questions, Through Measures of Mental Workload and Efficiency, 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Educationdoi:10.5220/0006790702920302
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Publication Details
Conference: 10th International Conference on Computer Supported Education