HUNG, WEI HSIANG
National Central Library Assistant Editor
Email：weldon@ncl.edu.tw
CHANLIN, LIH JUAN
Fu Jen Catholic University Department of Library and Information Science Professor
Email：035772@mail.fju.edu.tw
Abstract
Internship is an essential experience for students’ professional training. Internship involves students with practical experiences for gaining capabilities from the work society. From internship, students’ reflections are the core element for learning. To promote students’ reflective and critical thinking opportunities during internship, writing internship journal is needed. It helps students to self-reflect on what they have learned. Through the journals, faculty and stakeholders can identify assistance needed by interns. In this study, the OSS is used to develop an online internship journal system. For students, the online internship journal is convenient to record ones’ own work. Students’ progress can be monitored timely. Together with the use of online journal, students’ responses toward the use of online journal system were assessed in a set of questionnaire containing 23 items. From the 261 data collected in 2013-2016, reactions in various assessment aspects are listed as followed: learning, M = 4.17; system function, M = 3.97; system management, M = 3.79. For students, online internship journal is a convenient platform for recording internship journals. The use of online internship system not only provides reflective learning, but also creates diverse learning opportunities. Students are able to benefit from the learning model.
Keywords :online internship journal, open-source software, experiential learning, reflective learning, electronic portfolio