Research On Learners' Interaction Factors In Virtual Learning Community

Networking and multimedia processing technology promotes the development and application of educational informatization. Under the influence of Constructivism Learning Theory, educators attempts to carry out a new teaching. So a majority of experts divert their attention on virtual learning community. Domestic and foreign experts begin to study virtual learning community by kinds of theory. But, on the whole virtual learning community hasn't shown its developing superiority and met some problems, such as unreasonable curriculum content, students'low interest, teaching feedback hysteretic. After all, the research is lack of concentrating the area of interaction and considering the factors of learners.Virtual learning community is the typical application of virtual community in the field of education. Virtual learning community has inherited the basic constituent elements and characteristics of virtual community. As a result, we should use the theory of sociology, psychology, communication and other subject to do some in-depth study of this problem.This paper choose the most representative virtual learning community, school assisted community. The virtual learning community based on the Moodle and Blackboard platform represents the dominant trend of this area. Also it analyzed the key factors of impact of learners'interaction in virtual learning community by the methods of content analysis, social network analysis and qualitative interviews. In this study, author combed the relevant concept of interaction in the virtual learning community and constructed the framework of analyzing the interaction factors of learners.Study found teaching strategies, leaning theme, the motivation of learners, learning time distribution, group strategy and emotional factors do have a significant influence on interaction in the virtual learning community.