In this study, a new type of Web-Based Learning (WBL) courses for professional development of teachers was developed. We set up "i nference tasks" as the core of our WBL courses. These tasks were expected to be effective in reflecting learners' various experience on learning process and in keeping learners' highly-motivated learning. The developed test courses were generally evaluated as useful by subjects. However, it was also su ggested that inference activity was more effective in the case of presenting simple information than that of complicated one.
In this study, a Web Based-Learning system to complement lectures for teacher professional development was developed and evaluated by five points of view.The WBL courses using prior inference task were developed by Mashiko (2001)
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