Automated Constructivist Learning-Development of a Model

Constructivism is a learning theory in which learners construct knowledge through interaction withenvironment. Many researchers have suggested that constructivism should apply in online tutoring. Thus, this paperattempts to propose a new constructivist tutoring system architecture. The authors develop the connection betweenconstructivism and adult learning tutoring system.The purpose of this paper is to design a general framework for building an online constructivist learning application.Therefore, we have investigated existing models and summarized three more relevant architectures that have been used inthis context. From the results of the analysis, Automated Constructivist Learning (ACL) has been proposed. Then theconstructivism and bloom taxonomy implications for the proposed model have been described. At the end we have designedthe system architecture by using the abstract components.

Keywords:

online tutoring , constructivist , online learning , bloom taxonomy , intelligent tutoring systems