Design of a Self-Reflection Model in GOAL to Support Students' Reflection

Abstract

GOAL (Goal Oriented Active Learner) system is a platform to support the development of students’ self-direction skills using a data-driven feedback loop. It integrates students’ learning activity data from the learning management system (LMS) and physical activities data from the mobile health applications or wearable devices. These activity data provide a data-rich context for students to train their self-direction skills, such as planning, monitoring and reflection. The reflection skill plays an important role in the self-directed cycle, and therefore students should be given more opportunities to practically execute the skill and further improve it. This paper proposes a self-reflection model to support the acquisition of reflection skills in students’ self-directed learning and physical activities. The model is built on reflective process and strategies in self-direction and self-regulation. It allows students to reflect on their plans and achievements in the planning-monitoring-reflection process and enables them to consider their reflective strategies. The conceptual contribution of this paper is applying reflection theory to the practice in self-directed activities through computer based scaffolds.