Development of Learning Management System to Support Exercise with Face to Face Group Discussion

为了帮助学生解决练习问题，我们引入了面对面的小组讨论，在此期间，每个小组成员解释他或她自己的解决方案，然后所有成员作为一个小组探索解决方案。在参与者完成讨论练习后，观察到动机水平提高和其他有益效果。在本研究中，我们开发了一个面对面的小组讨论支持系统（GDS），它与大学的LMS合作。GDS具有练习题管理、用户管理、自动分组、分组讨论起止时间管理、作业单查看和反馈录入等功能，课堂试用结果表明，该系统具有一定的优势。

To help students solve exercise problems, we introduced face-to-face group discussion during which each group member explains his or her own solution, and then all members explore a solution as a group. Improved motivation levels, and other beneficial effects, were observed in participants following their completion of discussion exercises. In this research, we developed a face-to-face group discussion support system (GDS), which cooperates with LMS of the university. GDS has functions of management of exercise problems and users, automated group generation, management of start and end time of group discussions, viewing the worksheet and entering feedback and so on. The results of the system's in-class trial suggested that it had several benefits.