Abstract:In recent years, learning community has become a hot spot in educational research. Learning community is a group of people who share common values and beliefs, and these members are actively engaged in learning together. Learning community has become a main model and means of cooperative learning and interdisciplinary research in higher education.
In order to have an overview of how students learn autonomously within a learning community, I write this thesis. The thesis discusses about autonomous learning in learning community on the basis of constructivism. The emphasize lies in the autonomous learning methods, process and strategies in a learning community including every detailed aspects from creating a learning community, making a study plan, understanding learning process to monitoring and evaluating.
Learning community is an integrated system and effective way to raise learners’ interest, improve learners’ self-learning capacity. It has a positive impact on building learning society.
Keywords: learning community autonomous learning learning process learning strategy
Contents
Abstract
摘要
Chapter One Introduction-1
Chapter Two Literature Review-2
2.1 Learning community-2
2.1.1 The Definition of Learning Community-2
2.1.2 Benefits of Learning Community-3
2.2 Autonomous Learning-3
2.2.1 Definition of Autonomous Learning-3
2.2.2 Importance of Autonomous Learning-4
Chapter Three Autonomous Learning Within Learning Community-5
3.1 Five Models of Learning Community-5
3.2 The Autonomous Learning Process Based on Learning Community-7
3.2.1 Setting Goals-7
3.2.2 Making a Study Plan-8
3.2.3 Interacting and Cooperating-8
3.2.4 Evaluating-9
3.3 The Autonomous Learning Strategy in Learning Community-10
3.3.1 Cognitive Strategy-10
3.3.2 Meta-cognitive Strategies-11
Chapter Four Conclusion-12
References-13
