Designing Framework of Constructivist Web-based Learning Environment to Enhance Creative Thinking on Topic E-R Diagram for Higher Education Student

Abstract

From the context of the global expansion of the technology industry has made today's competitive labor market is relatively high. Creative thinking is an essential skill in the 21st century but nature of teaching is also unfavorable for the students to learn the content. Students will continue to focus on memorization and will not be able to apply this knowledge to the real problems. This paper presents the implemented open learning environments (OLEs) to design web-based learning environment to enhance creative thinking. The target group consisted of 15 undergraduate students, faculty of education, Khon Kaen University. The research procedures were as followings: 1) to examine the principles and theories regarding constructivism, cognitivism, creative thinking, web-based learning and open learning environments, 2) to synthesize designing framework of web-based learning environment to enhance creative thinking, 3) to design and development web-based learning environment to enhance creative thinking. The result shows that six components to design web-based learning environment for effective were: problem base, knowledge bank, creative thinking laboratory, counseling center, scaffolding, and social collaboration.