A Semantically Enhanced Learning Environment for Cultivating Meta-thinking Skills

Abstract

Meta-thinking skills, which are skills related to the ability to think about better ways of thinking, have been object of growing interest in the field of educational psychology. It is desirable that learners review their own way of thinking and critically reflect it in order to regulate learning in a better direction. Nevertheless, it is not easy for novice learners to actively put meta-thinking into practice. Moreover, it is also difficult for others to observe learners’ metacognitive characteristics that control the performance and improvement of meta-thinking. There has been limited work on proposing Intelligent Tutoring System (ITS) which embeds and organizes teaching strategies based on expert instructors’ actual experience. In this research, we propose a learning methodology which includes a mechanism to provide learners with presentation design tasks as meta-learning tasks and thereby diagnose learners’ cognitive characteristics based on the results of their tasks execution.