Researches On Coordination Mechanisms For Synergistic Learning System

Today, the growing wealth of digital infrastructures and equipments make the flow of information easy and smooth, and also make the the knowledge of publish, storage, access and dissemination become much more convenient. The publics also have the opportunities to express their views, to publish their books and so on. That is, people's working, living and learning are undergoing an unprecedented change.Under the new framework of cyberinfrastructure, television network, radio network, mobile communication network and satellite network are expected to become a single network; computer screen, television screen, mobile screen, etc. also are expected to present on a single screen. This situation makes people have multi-channel and multi-method to access and to disseminate knowledge.Under these circumstances, how to explain and how to improve learning are two questions need us to reconsider.Synergistic Learning Theory (SLT) illustrates a wonderful picture of learning and can be used to answer the first question mentioned above. SLT was created by the group leaded by Prof. Zhu Zhiting. In SLT framework, there are five fields which can describe the learner's learning status completely, Value Field is used to describe the learner's value orientation, Emotion Field is used to describe the learner's emotion when learning is occurred, Activity Field is used to describe the learner's learning behaviors, such as searching behavior, asking behavior, thinking behavior, etc. Information Filed is used to describe the learner's capacity of handling information, Knowledge Field is used to describe the learner's capacity of constructing knowledge. To analyze a learner by these five fields, we can elaborately dig out the deep reasons why the learner enjoys learning or refuses to learn, why some learners acquired knowledge quickly much more than others, and some questions like these. In turn, we can use these five fields to cure the learner accordingly.A communication model drawn out by Prof. Zhu Zhiting in1996and revised in2006can be used to answer the second question. This communication model consistes of five spaces: the Roles space is the set of people, the Contents space is the set of knowledge, the Tools space is the set of things which can be used as a tool to aid learning, the Coordination space is the set of activities designed to coordinate other spaces, and the Working Information space is the set of learning processes and learning results. This communication model classifies all the factors outside of the learner into three spaces:Roles space, Contents space and Tools space, and use Coordination space to coordinate them and at last generates the Working Information space. Although, how to use Coordination space to coordinate other spaces is still not clear too much, this research is trying to answer this question by using Synergistic Scripts and Enabling Technology.Synergistic scripts is developed along with scripts and CSCL scripts,its purpose is to cultivate learner's learning behaviors in order that learner can learn by himself without an intented teacher in the future. Considering the effects of the implementation of synergistic scripts, enabling technology is developed to guarantee the synergistic scripts can be implemented rightly.By using synergistic scripts and enabling technology, a macro-script include eight mechanisms is designed to constitute the Coordinatin space to coordinate learner with the Roles space, the Resource space and the Tools space and finally to generate the Working Information space. Next, some micro-scripts according to each mechanism of the macro-script are designed to implement the mechanisms.At the end of this paper, three empirical studies based on network model and traditional class model are carried out to verify the effects of using synergistic scripts and enable technology to implement the coordination space, in that, to achieve the goal of synergistic learning.