Author(s)

Jun Ma ¹, Peixia Huang ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ College of Educational Science and Technology, Northwest Minzu University, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, China

Corresponding Author

Jun Ma

ABSTRACT

The popularization of the Internet has made online learning more and more popular, and people need to improve their knowledge and update their thoughts to keep up with the high-tech pace in the Internet era. This is increasingly important for individuals, businesses, or other organizations. Therefore, it is required that people learn how to learn effectively through the network in life, and how to improve learning efficiency has become the main problem to be solved, which requires a new understanding of explicit learning and implicit learning under the network. Effective learning inevitably requires the support of both implicit and explicit learning. By comparing explicit and implicit learning in traditional classrooms with those in online environments, this study conducts a detailed analysis of their transmission modes and their integration in conventional settings. It further investigates the operating mechanisms of explicit and implicit learning, as well as the transfer of explicit and implicit knowledge, in networked contexts, arriving at corresponding conclusions. Based on these findings and practical realities, the paper proposes several strategies for enhancing explicit and implicit learning online, covering three dimensions: the construction of learning environments, the development of teacher-designed courses, and the learner's own initiative.

KEYWORDS

Implicit Learning; Explicit Learning; Tacit Knowledge; Explicit Knowledge

CITE THIS PAPER

Jun Ma, Peixia Huang, Study on Explicit and Implicit Learning in Internet-Based Environments. Transactions on Comparative Education (2025) Vol. 7: 121-127. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/trance.2025.070216.

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