For students, learners' confidence, initiative of learning, inquiry and autonomy of learning are laid importance on.
In South Africa, S4D was designed as a school safety initiative initially to address issues of violence and learner academic performance and mitigate risky behaviour amongst adolescents in the country's most challenged schools.
The figure shows an abridged dialogue in which the learner has the initiative and is querying SOPHIE (demonstrating SOPHIE's impressive discourse capabilities) about the fault.
Is it the new learner?" Mitra's initiative for both the developing and developed world needs three things -- 1) Broadband 2) Encouragement and Administration (by an army of supportive "online grannies") and 3) Collaboration.
Meanwhile in Indonesia, where provider supported learning communities are not yet present, some MOOC learners took the initiative to form their own community, which they called IDCourserians.
In Indonesia, where provider-supported learning communities are not yet present, some MOOC learners took the initiative to form their own community, which they called IDCourserians and which was founded in Jakarta in April 2013 (IDCourserians n.d).. Different from the hub in New York, the community's members organise the meetings themselves in order to decide how MOOC will be studied.
Much research and many dialogue samples have been collected with the computer posing problems or providing prompts, pumps, or hints, and then passing the dialogue initiative to learner, which is where the dialogue in Fig. 3 begins.
[ 29, 34]It is the critical reflection on practice that forms the basis for questions that lead to locating the best current research evidence.[ 35] Developing a question also requires other behaviors identified as characteristics of the self-directed learner in the literature: initiative, [ 19, 29] self-discipline, [ 19, 33]and the ability to develop and set goals.
The learners perceived that the initiative could help achieving their learning outcomes.
The designed initiative enabled learners to achieve a significant knowledge gain for enhancing their understanding of e-Learning.
