The Instructional Design for the Web-Based Collaborative Learning System

The benefits of the development of continued social interactions among individuals in an educational environment have been well documented in the literature. Nonetheless, few instructional design strategies are available to instructors for the development of Web-base learning environment. The instructional design strategies basing on the social interaction theory and corresponding instructional activities that have been imported into our previous system have been introduced and the Theoretical foundation of these strategies has been discussed in this paper.