Abstract:
Currently many instructional Web sites just simply deliver course materials without integrating
the role of teacher in guiding learners to use these materials to construct knowledge. Learners
only passively receive the presented materials. Our research is to provide support services to
actively assist learners to construct knowledge using the constructivist approach to learning.
This paper focuses on providing services to assist learners to choose appropriate resources and
methods, and guide them to align learning towards their study objectives. These services are
implemented through electronic workspaces that manage the learning processes. A specification
language will be presented to specify the learning processes in a way that constructivist learning
can be supported and facilitated. The approach to managing the learning processes will be
investigated. A learning environment that assists learners to use constructivist methods of
learning to build new competences will be presented.
