TY - JFULL AU - N.B. Adams PY - 2007/12/ TI - Toward a Model for Knowledge Development in Virtual Environments: Strategies for Student Ownership T2 - International Journal of Educational and Pedagogical Sciences SP - 653 EP - 660 VL - 1 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/2775 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 11, 2007 N2 - This article discusses the concept of student ownership of knowledge and seeks to determine how to move students from knowledge acquisition to knowledge application and ultimately to knowledge generation in a virtual setting. Instructional strategies for fostering student engagement in a virtual environment are critical to the learner-s strategic ownership of the knowledge. A number of relevant theories that focus on learning, affect, needs and adult concerns are presented to provide a basis for exploring the transfer of knowledge from teacher to learner. A model under development is presented that combines the dimensions of knowledge approach, the teacher-student relationship with regards to knowledge authority and teaching approach to demonstrate the recursive and scaffolded design for creation of virtual learning environments. ER -