Knowledge Absorption: Development Of An Educational Platform For Project-Based Learning

Abstract

This article discusses the development of a digital educational platform for project-based learning. It is assumed that, when combined with other innovative approaches to enhancing the educational process, project-based learning, supported by digital tools, will enhance student knowledge absorption. The purpose of this study is to develop a concept for a project-based learning platform for students. To achieve this goal, the following tasks must be addressed: 1) examine the influence of student agency on knowledge absorption; 2) determine the role structure of project-based learning actors in the knowledge absorption process; 3) formulate a concept for a project-based learning platform for students. Theories of cognitive development and knowledge absorption, the rational construction of new forms of knowledge, and methods of sequential decomposition and synthesis of complex systems are used as the methodological basis. The main results of the study include an explication of student positions, the definition of agency as a student personality trait, the determination of the role structure of project-based learning actors, the development of an integrated knowledge absorption model, and the conceptual modeling of a project-based learning platform.