Designing and Evaluating Learning System for Collaborative Historical Analogy

Abstract

The application of historical causation to modern social problem solving is considered important in history education for high school. Additionally, a collaborative historical analogy is needed. In this study, we design a novel learning system that makes the combination of grouping students to maximize collaborative historical analogy and helps students to connect their historical analogies collaboratively. By integrating previous research on collaborative historical analogy, we designed an online learning system named the History Time Capsule that provides online collaborative writing spaces where students check the validity of their historical analogy and integrate their historical analogy collaboratively. As a result of an evaluation, this learning system achieved a certain result for grouping and collaborative historical analogy. Moreover, we propose some future works of devising a method or an algorithm that minimizes the variance among pairs and groups, better scripts for collaborative historical analogy, and so on.