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阿萨巴斯卡大学是加拿大最著名的开放与远程教育大学,近年来开展了一系列卓有成效的改革:从传统远程教育模式向在线课程与服务模式转变;推进移动图书馆建设;开发和利用开放教育资源;对多种学习管理系统进行评估与整合;减少与信息交流技术相关的温室气体排放,向低碳型远程教育大学转化,这些改革推动了该校开放与远程教育的高水平发展。 相似文献
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Rebecca L. Matz Edward D. Rothman Joseph S. Krajcik Mark M. Banaszak Holl 《科学教学研究杂志》2012,49(5):659-682
Laboratories have been a cornerstone in teaching and learning across multiple scientific disciplines for more than 100 years. At the collegiate level, science laboratories and their corresponding lectures are often offered as separate courses, and students may not be required to concurrently enroll in both. In this study, we provide evidence that enrolling in an introductory laboratory concurrently with the corresponding lecture course enhances learning gains and retention in comparison to students who enroll in the lecture alone. We examined the impact of concurrent versus nonconcurrent enrollment on 9,438 students' withdrawal rates from and final grades in the general chemistry lecture at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor using multiple linear and binary logistic regression analyses, respectively, at a significance level of 0.05. We found that concurrent enrollment in the lecture and laboratory positively impacts (1) the odds of retention in the lecture by 2.2 times on average and (2) final lecture grades by up to 0.19 grade points on a 4.0 scale for the lowest‐scoring students according to university‐level mathematics and chemistry placement exam scores. These data provide important results for consideration by curriculum advisors and course planners at universities that do not require concurrent enrollment in general chemistry as well as other science courses. In the face of current budget cuts that threaten to shorten or eliminate laboratory experiences altogether at multiple educational levels, this study demonstrates the value of laboratories in promoting science learning and retention. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Res Sci Teach 49: 659–682, 2012 相似文献
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ULLA RUNESSON 《欧洲师范教育杂志》1997,20(2):161-169
In order to adapt teacher education to new demands in mathematics classrooms, it is necessary to change the courses in mathematics at the university. Teachers’ beliefs about mathematics, learning and teaching has great impact on their teaching. At the University of Göteborg, a co‐operative project has been conducted in order to design a programme based on problem solving in courses taken by prospective Comprehensive School teachers (grade 4‐‐9). The main purpose of the project has been to make student teachers more reflective about mathematics as such, about learning and teaching. Another purpose of the project has been to use a teaching method in a university course‐‐a method which could be applied in a school classroom. The student teachers have worked co‐operatively in small groups of 3‐4 students and the educators role has been that of a facilitator. A preliminary evaluation indicates that student teachers have developed an insight into the complexity of learning and teaching, even though there are variations in this respect. However they still have difficulties in applying the method to teaching mathematics at school. 相似文献
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Chris Zirkle 《The Teacher Educator》2013,48(3):208-219
Abstract College and university teacher education programs are increasingly required to integrate technology into teacher preparation in response to the requirements of national accreditation groups like the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). Delivery of teacher education programs through pure distance education methodologies still has critics. A Web‐enhanced approach, with on‐campus courses and Web‐based information and/or testing as a supplement, is suggested as a compromise. An alternative teacher licensure program in career and technical education at Ohio State University uses this approach extensively, with positive results. This case study explores the use of an alternative teacher licensure program, defines the components of a Web‐based curriculum, and illustrates the benefits and challenges of a Web‐enhanced teacher education program. Student and faculty issues and reactions are outlined, along with strategies for integrating Web‐based activities into courses. Suggested future plans for continuing to infuse technology into teacher education are also discussed. 相似文献
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Peter S. Cookson 《Open Learning》2013,28(1):71-80
Internet-based technologies are triggering significant changes in higher education. While in some cases the applications are limited to enhancing face-to-face instruction (Level I applications) or to enhancing existing distance education provision (Level II), in other cases instruction is taking place entirely online (Level III). As higher education institutions seek to exploit these different levels of application of emerging information technologies to deliver education courses and programmes at a distance, they are encountering a number of difficulties. This article presents what a number of higher and distance education observers in North America consider the most pertinent issues related to Internet technologies. The relevance of those issues for an existing distance teaching university, Athabasca University - Canada's Open University, is also discussed. 相似文献
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沈珺 《邢台职业技术学院学报》2013,(6):23-26
2012年国家开放大学的挂牌成立标志着中国远程教育发展步入了新的征程。作为中国远程教育领域的先驱,开放大学亟需探索吸收新型多媒体教学理念及手段。新兴出现的大规模在线开放课程（MOOC）开辟了远程教育在线课程的新的发展思路,其多元化的学习支持,多媒体课程资源的全球共享,新颖的翻转课堂模式及独立运营的MOOC平台体系都值得开放大学思考与学习。 相似文献
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Whitney Rogers Bischoff Sarah W. Bisconer Barbara M. Kooker Lanell C. Woods 《The American journal of distance education》2013,27(3):4-19
Abstract Distance education, in which learners are remote from the primary educational institution and the teacher, is increasingly delivered via interactive television technology. Moore (1980) described transactional distance between students and faculty in distance education as characterized by dialogue and structure. He hypothesized that high structure and low dialogue yield “remote” transactional distance and low structure and high dialogue yield “close” transactional distance. The variables in the current study were operationally defined following Moore (1973, 665): “A learner's ‘distance’ from his teacher [transactional distance] … is defined as a function of individualization [structure] and dialogue.” Student volunteers (n = 221) in thirteen public health and nursing graduate courses at the University of Hawaii at Manoa responded to an investigator‐developed questionnaire regarding elements of dialogue, structure, and transactional distance in their courses. Principal components and internal consistency reliability analyses verified the presence of three factors: structure, dialogue, and transactional distance. Dialogue was greater in the distance‐format courses than in the traditional‐format courses. Distance‐format courses did not differ from traditional courses on amount of structure or transactional distance. 相似文献
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James Wintle 《British Journal of Special Education》2015,42(2):183-198
There is a growing trend toward including adults with intellectual disabilities (ID) in further education. However, there is a lack of literature on the preparation of students with ID to attend further education. This article, by James Wintle of Queen's University, Ontario, describes how a non‐profit organisation, CALC Prep, prepares adults with ID to audit university courses. Eighty hours of observations were conducted over the course of one term at this organisation. A grounded theory approach was used to identify themes within CALC Prep's curriculum. Themes within the curriculum that were considered most useful for students preparing to audit courses at the university included familiarising the students with the university, enhancing self‐awareness, enhancing self‐expression and building literacy skills. Additionally, recommendations for improving the transition of students with ID from the preparation programme to auditing university courses are offered. 相似文献
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高校实验室是教学和科研的重要基地．它在培养人才方面有着课堂教学所不可取代的独特作用。实验室建设是高校管理体制中的重要组成部分之一．它在一定程度上关系到办学目标的实现。本文主要探讨电大在远程教育中的实验室建设与管理．优化实验教学资源．发挥实验室功能作用及如何与地区经济发展联系等方面问题．并提出了一些对策。 相似文献
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Adrian Kirkwood 《Distance Education》2000,21(2):248-259
Digitisation and the convergence of computing and telecommunications have led to a range of information and communication technologies (ICT) that have the potential to transform education. ICT are being used by teachers and learners in conventional universities and colleges as well as in tertiary institutions that serve the needs of distance learners, be they home‐based or in some other off‐campus location. They can enable distance learners to receive and interact with educational materials and resources and to engage with teachers and peers in ways that previously may have been impossible. However, the domestic contexts within which home‐based learners undertake their studies are complex and highly varied and these circumstances impact upon the educational process (Kirkwood 1995).
There is a need to examine not only the nature of the relationships between learners and the technologies, but also the social relationships within the domestic setting. It is important for course designers and developers to consider issues of access to ICT ‐ both quantitative and qualitative ‐ in the homes of their target student audience in order to develop a better understanding of their learners. Significant disparities in access exist, both within and between countries, and these can exacerbate existing educational advantages and inequities. Greater awareness of the diverse environments within which home‐based learning takes place should help inform the planning and design of courses and materials that are appropriate for such varied contexts. 相似文献
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北京师范大学通识教育制度的建构与变迁 总被引：2，自引：0，他引：2
通过梳理北京师范大学通识教育制度建构与变迁的历程,可将其分为大学预科制度时期、高师教育转变与师范大学改制时期、师范大学时期的学分制与自由选修制、南京国民政府时期对大学课程的整理以及共同必修课程的加强、全校公共选修课的重构时期、通识教育模式的当今探索时期6个阶段。外来移植与本土化是北师大通识教育制度产生的路径,政府强制性制度变迁是通识教育制度变迁的主要动力．学青、国家和大学的共识诉求是通识教育制度重构的主要方式。 相似文献
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《师资教育杂志》2012,38(3):281-289
The paper argues for a redrawing of the relationship between research, teaching and teacher education. One obstacle is the view, still held by many teachers, that research has little relevance for everyday practice. At the same time the teacher‐researcher movement is flourishing. If the movement is to be more than an energetic but divisive challenge to the tradition of university‐based research, then the notion of ‘research’ as conducted by practising teachers and its possible contribution to the common store of educational knowledge needs to be examined and clarified. Teacher research ‐or the less challenging but possibly more realistic habit of reflection‐on‐action through classroom enquiry ‐ is an important means of sustaining professional curiosity and focusing professional dialogue. Attitudes and habits supportive of research need to be encouraged in courses of initial teacher education which are all too often dominated by concerns of short‐term survival rather than long‐term professionalism. 相似文献
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Margaret Taplin 《Distance Education》2000,21(2):278-299
Despite the advantages of problem based learning (PBL) and the fact that it has been utilised for some time in conventional higher education settings, it is not widely used in distance education in Hong Kong. Recently, a small group of course co‐ordinators at the Open University of Hong Kong engaged in a series of action learning projects to explore ways in which it could be incorporated into their courses. The purpose of this paper is to report the opinions of these academics about the suitability of PBL for a distance education environment. Generally, they concluded that it is possible, and perhaps desirable, to consider implementing PBL as one learning approach. However, most of the projects focussed on a fairly narrow application of PBL, namely in face‐to‐face tutorials. The limitations of the participants’ interpretations are discussed in the light of the constraints they face, and some recommendations are made for other ways of implementing PBL into distance education. 相似文献
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How does the support of mentors based in Study Centres affect the performance of distance education students, both in their course assignments and in their final examinations? Helmut Fritsch and Gerhard Ströhlein ‐ from the Central Institute for Distance Education Research (ZIFF) in the FemUniversitat in West Germany ‐ address this question through an analysis of some of the data collected at the University. In their discussion, they also shed light on some of the methodological problems raised by this kind of analysis, while stressing the system‐specific nature of their findings. 相似文献
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通识教育,抑或专业教育的补充?--对北京大学本科生素质教育通选课的分析 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
北京大学自2000年9月起开设本科生素质教育通选课,这是实践通识教育理念的重要举措。本文参照哈佛大学核心课程,对通选课开设情况进行了详细的分析研究,认为由于受原有专业化教育思想和社会客观环境的影响,通选课并未完全贯彻通识教育理念,或者可以说只是专业教育的一种补充、纠编。 相似文献
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Yuri A. Bocharov 《European Journal of Engineering Education》1995,20(2):173-181
The paper discusses the experience in practising the video‐based distance education in Russia initiated jointly by the IACEE and the Bauman State Technical University. The structure of the East‐West Distance Education Project has been incorporated into the system of continuing education that existed in the former Soviet Union. The thirteen regional centres have been established in the universities and institutions of the Russian Federation and four other countries of CIS to train specialists needed for emerging market economy. Six video‐based courses of Western universities have been adapted and tested in the CIS educational environment and proved to be effective during the pilot phase of the project. 相似文献
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Developments in the provision of distance education in Australia and Hong Kong are analysed in terms of eight phases, characterised by Government policies and institutional practices. Hong Kong appears to be progressing through the same developmental phases as Australia, but at later points in time. Both countries decided against forming a single national open university in favour of dispersed provision but neither followed recommendations to form a body to co‐ordinate course provision nationally. Both have experienced a period of uncontrolled and unco-ordinated expansion of distance education courses and Hong Kong is still in this phase, whereas Australia is now in the midst of belated attempts by its federal government to rationalise distance education at the national level along with higher education as a whole. We argue that much of the confusion surrounding these events could have been prevented by early planning and setting of clear policy guidelines, together with a recognition that implementation of higher education policy is by no means a straightforward matter. Hopefully there are lessons to be learned from this analysis: in the case of Hong Kong, that its current trend towards unco‐ordinated expansion may well lead to enforced contraction and rationalisation should economic growth trends be reversed, and, in the case of Australia, a clearer understanding of issues related to policy and implementation. 相似文献
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Although information technology is increasingly used to deliver distance and conventional courses, there have been few studies of the effect of technology‐enhanced education on the organization and purposes of academics’ instructional work. I explore this issue in undergraduate and masters level education through the vehicle of case analyses of technology‐rich classes taught in a public research university in the United States. What the cases illustrate is an emergent pattern of what I am calling ‘Mode III’ instructional production, in which the production of a course involves a matrix of non‐faculty support personnel, and may be oriented to commercial purposes reflective of an increasingly embedded academic capitalism in the new economy. 相似文献
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Carin Berg 《Higher Education in Europe》1990,15(2):74-75
CEPES is in charge of the feasibility study on The University of the Peoples of Europe. This note gives an outline of what has been done until now and what further plans are. ECTS ‐ European Community Course Transfer System ‐ is conceived to ease academic mobility and recognition by providing a common credit system. 84 institutions of higher education or consortia participate during the pilot phase 1989/90‐1994/95. 相似文献
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I. M. Connaughton 《Educational research; a review for teachers and all concerned with progress in education》2013,55(3):171-182
More and more higher education courses in this country are being organized on the sandwich principle of alternate periods of academic study and industrial training. But the educational implications of such courses have been comparatively little investigated. From a survey of the existing literature and an empirical study of thick sandwich courses at the University of Bradford, it is argued that the ideal of an integrated education in two environments is not being attained at present, and may, in fact, be unattainable. There are undoubted benefits, both educational and political, which accrue from such courses, but these must be set against the evident disadvantages. The time is ripe for a re‐appraisal of the role of sandwich courses. 相似文献