Internet virtual community - an implementation of the instructional model of the PBIALS based on the PBL theory

We implement an instructional system, called Internet virtual community (IVC for short), according to the instructional model of the Problem-Based Internet Assisted Learning System (PBIALS for short), a previous research result based on the problem-based learning (PBL for short) theory. In order to achieve the instructional model of the PBIALS, four phases are developed for the instructional process include the phase school I - III and the phase outside school. To ensure the instructional system is work and useful, a teaching unit - Dream Computer - is constructed for the basic computer concept I, the first year course of the information program in Chi-Ping vocational school, Taiwan. A self designed questionnaire is also used for collecting the feedbacks responded from the students and evaluating the instructional model/process/system proposed by us.