Scaffolding Supervision and Behavior Understanding

Abstract

Since the instructional activities are implemented on cyberspace, how to control behaviors of students and to increase the degree of communication awareness has been a challenging issue. This paper presents an advanced Petri Net model to analyze and supervise of the web-based multiple participants in virtual environment. We proposed a system based on the scaffolding theory. Behaviors of students are supervised by an intelligent control system, which is programmed by the instructor under our generic interface. Problems of providing the multi-user interaction on the Web and the solutions proposed by the Petri Net model are fully elaborated here. This paper can be used as a basic/fundamental research framework and tools to study and understand the characteristics of e-learning and to explore its optimal education application.