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Self-directed learning has been one of the main objectives in the education domain. A learning model can drive a self-directed learning if an adequate educational environment is built. We propose an educational environment to encourage the self-directed learning, which is composed of a computer collaborative tool that uses dialogues and the concept of ill structured problems. The knowledge being learned is represented by a network of concepts built by the students through the exchanged messages. The network of concepts expressed the relation between the main concepts of the topic being learned. A coherent network is the tangible proof that the process of self-directed learning has been correctly achieved. Two topics of computer sciences are reported: Object Oriented Programming and Case Based Reasoning. The results have proven that along with the knowledge acquired, self-directed learning contributes directly to the development of skills for solving problems and attitudes of collaborative work.
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Ramos-Quintana, F., Sámano-Galindo, J., Zárate-Silva, V.H. (2008). Collaborative Environments through Dialogues and PBL to Encourage the Self-directed Learning in Computational Sciences. In: Bubak, M., van Albada, G.D., Dongarra, J., Sloot, P.M.A. (eds) Computational Science – ICCS 2008. ICCS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5102. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69387-1_84
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