Web2．0的理念及对远程教育的启示

本文首先对Web2．0的定义和特点作了简要的介绍,接着又论述了Web2．0的两个主要基础理论和目前常见的几种应用形式,最后重点论述了Web2．0对远程教育教学理念、学习模式、学习支持服务体系、评价体系、学习资源建设和教学管理体系等方面的意义和启示。     

利用AJAX技术构建社区远程教育平台

随着基于Web2．0技术的互联网应用的兴起,作为Web2．0中主要的新技术一异步通信技术,在互联网的前端开发中获得了越来越广泛的应用．异步JavaScript和XML（AJAX）作为一种主要的异步通信技术也受到了越来越多的关注。本文以构建社区远程教育平台为例,论证了AJAx技术在远程教育学习平台的开发中所发挥的优势,阐述了基于AJAX技术的远程教育平台的前端实现模式。     

web2．0在远程教育中的应用

Web2．0以其个性化、共享性、开放性等特点为远程教育提供了有力的技术支持,其典型形态博客（Slog）和标签（tag）等为远程教育提供了新的教学手段。Web2．0在远程教育中具有广泛的应用前景。     

Web2.0学习文化与信息素养2.0

Web2．0是互联网技术和理念的升级换代,是新型互联网模式的统称。它蕴涵新型的学习文化,对学习者的信息素养提出了新要求。理解Web2．0技术和学习文化概念,讨论Web2．0的学习文化特征,探索信息素养2．0的基本内涵,对学习者和教育者理解Web2．0学习文化和塑造信息素养2．0,具有重要的理论价值和实践意义。     

Web技术的发展对现代远程教育的影响

互联网技术的飞速发展,推动了现代远程教育的建设。而作为互联网发展的核心技术之一,Web技术的发展更是为人所关注,尤其当下最流行的Web2．0技术以其特有的社会性、共通性,越来越为人们所熟知和使用,作为网络发展新时代的标志之一。Web2．0技术也当仁不让地应用到了远程教育当中,为远程教育的发展提供了更加强大的功能和更为广阔的空间。     

浅谈Web2．0在网络课程建设中的优势与局限

由于Web1．0技术的局限,使基于Web1．0的网络课程存在着诸多不足,诸如缺乏科学有效的人际交互的设计,指导、监控学习过程的学习活动设计较少,学习评价与反馈设计简单化等。随着Web2．0在教育领域的推广应用,其在网络课程建设中的优势越来越被学者们认同,Web2．0的理念、技术和应用为网络课程的教学设计带来了更多的可能性,为网络课程的更新换代提供了技术支持。     

e-Learning环境下促进深度学习的策略研究

目前,深度学习成为学习科学领域的热门话题,然而对于深度学习的探讨却止步不前,如何进行e-Learn-ing环境下深度学习的设计研究尚处在起步阶段。文章首先阐明了深度学习的内涵与意义,接着构建了深度学习交互层次模型,最后以深度学习交互层次模型为依据,深刻剖析了e-Learning环境下促进深度学习的学习策略,并对深度学习的交互层次模型和学习策略指导下的实践案例进行了阐述,分析了其在促进深度学习方面的效果。     

Web2．0在香港学校图书馆中的应用

文章介绍了Web2．0的关键概念及其特点,并以香港学校图书馆的具体实践为例。指出Web2．0应用程式是理想的工具,有助于加强与读者的互动关系,以及加深读者的学习经历,有助于延伸及开拓图书馆的服务,亦有利于把图书馆建设为学习的中心。     

Web2.0时代网络学习环境的构建

随着Web2．0时代的到来,网络学习呈现出强大的发展态势。以乔纳森建构主义学习环境设计理论为指导,提出Web2．0时代网络学习环境的构建模式,并对此模式的构成要素、多元化角色进行分析,给出该模式的应用实例设计方案。     

数字化学习港可持续发展的运行机制探讨

数字化学习港的进展关系到我国学习型社会的建设和现代远程教育自身的发展。本文在教育部教改项目“数字化学习港与终身学习社会的建设与示范”的基础上,根据数字化学习港的理念和实践内涵,借鉴web2．0的理念与实践案例,进一步从理论上深入探索了我国数字化学习港建设可持续发展的运行机制,并为我国现代远程教育的可持续发展提供有益启示。     

‘I’m just not that comfortable with technology’: student perceptions of and preferences for Web 2.0 technologies in reflective journals

Encouraging reflective practice and developing reflective practitioners is a goal of many disciplines in higher education. A variety of pedagogical techniques have been used to promote critical reflection including portfolios, narratives and reflective journals. Over the past decade, the use of Web 2.0 technologies with students has been increasingly adopted in higher education settings and many educators have integrated these technologies into reflective assignments. These educators assume that students, who are members of the Net Generation, are technologically savvy and have the ability to integrate the use of Web 2.0 technologies into learning. However, while there have been studies examining the outputs of reflective assignments using Web 2.0 technologies such as blogs, e-portfolios and wikis, there has been little research examining whether or not students actually use technology for these types of assignment if given the choice. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to explore if technology was appropriated or rejected by students for a reflective journaling assignment. Results are based on a content analysis of 42 student journaling assignments and interviews with eight students. Findings suggest that (1) students are not as technologically competent as assumed; (2) students chose to use basic/fundamental technologies (e.g. word processing) because they viewed it as the easiest way to complete the reflective journaling assignment; (3) student perceptions of what makes an assignment ‘good’ influenced their choice to use Web 2.0 technologies; and (4) overarching student perceptions of higher education and learning impacted their appropriation of technology. Implications are discussed and recommendations for both research and practice are made.     

Use of Web 2.0 technologies in K-12 and higher education: The search for evidence-based practice

Evidence-based practice in education entails making pedagogical decisions that are informed by relevant empirical research evidence. The main purpose of this paper is to discuss evidence-based pedagogical approaches related to the use of Web 2.0 technologies in both K-12 and higher education settings. The use of such evidence-based practice would be useful to educators interested in fostering student learning through Web 2.0 tools. A comprehensive literature search across the Academic Search Premier, Education Research Complete, ERIC, and PsycINFO databases was conducted. Empirical studies were included for review if they specifically examined the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on student learning. Articles that merely described anecdotal studies such as student perception or feeling toward learning using Web 2.0, or studies that relied on student self-report data such as student questionnaire survey and interview were excluded. Overall, the results of our review suggested that actual evidence regarding the impact of Web 2.0 technologies on student learning is as yet fairly weak. Nevertheless, the use of Web 2.0 technologies appears to have a general positive impact on student learning. None of the studies reported a detrimental or inferior effect on learning. The positive effects are not necessarily attributed to the technologies per se but to how the technologies are used, and how one conceptualizes learning. It may be tentatively concluded that a dialogic, constructionist, or co-constructive pedagogy supported by activities such as Socratic questioning, peer review and self-reflection appeared to increase student achievement in blog-, wiki-, and 3-D immersive virtual world environments, while a transmissive pedagogy supported by review activities appeared to enhance student learning using podcast.     

电大现代远程开放教育发展的分析

现代远程教育是以现代远程教育信息传输技术为基础,融面授、函授和自学等教学形式于一体,通过多种媒体及其优化和有机组合传授知识的一种教育方式。其发展特点是：学习过程以学生为主体;学习信息的快速反馈;多种技术的融合应用;需适应个别化学习要求;终身教育。这种发展趋势要求远程教育系统要转变为在教学目标的指导下适应学生学习需求的学习系统。     

Addressing the context of e‐learning: using transactional distance theory to inform design

The rapidly expanding range of options available for innovative e‐learning approaches based on emerging technologies has given renewed importance to teaching and learning issues that have long been familiar to distance educators. These issues arise from the separation between learners, and between teacher and learners, which occurs when learning is undertaken wholly or partly online. There may be important implications that emerge from aspects of separation, depending on whether students are studying primarily on‐campus, off‐campus, trans‐nationally, or in specific contexts such as the home, the workplace, fieldwork locations, or other places made possible by mobile learning technologies. We suggest that the context of learning has significant implications for e‐learning design, and that one way of analysing these implications is to draw on understandings from distance education, particularly the theory of transactional distance. We use cases from two Australian universities to illustrate the practical application of these implications to e‐learning design, including designs that involve Web 2.0 technologies.     

远程教育领域研究内容框架探析：实践视角

理论与实践脱节是我国远程教育领域面临的重大问题之一,立足典型远程教育机构的实践内容,有利于从实践出发完善我国远程教育领域研究的内容框架。基于中外学者从理论层面对远程教育领域研究内容框架的划分,结合2010年电大系统实践层面科研课题的统计数据,研究认为,远程教育领域研究内容框架应包括7个子领域及30个研究主题。7个子领域分别是理论研究、系统建设与运作、教学管理与质量保证、教学资源、远程教与学、学习支持服务和媒体技术。通过比较发现：学者视角的远程教育领域研究更加关注理论研究、教学管理与质量保证子领域;实践机构更加关注应用研究、远程教与学、教学资源子领域;两者在系统建设与运作、学习支持服务、媒体技术方面的关注度相当。     

Distance Education

Abstract

Social work educators are increasingly using advanced information technologies in their distance education programs. Despite the widespread use of distance learning in social work education, there is limited information available regarding the effectiveness of courses, particularly practice courses, that use these technologies or the experiences of the students and instructors who are helping to pioneer these technological initiatives. This article presents reflections from students from two MSW practice classes linked together through interactive TV, also known as compressed video. The authors, who were course instructors using this technology, present their reflections on the process and make recommendations for future distance learning courses.     

Teachers’ perceptions towards using Web 2.0 in language learning and teaching

This paper aims at exploring the perceptions of teachers towards using Web 2.0 in language learning and teaching. To this end, a study was carried out among language teachers serving in different Moroccan higher education institutions. The result of the research study demonstrated that just like students, instructors are also immersed in these web-based applications and have recourse to them for both personal and educational reasons. However, it has been noticed that though the vast majority of the surveyed teachers claimed that Web 2.0 technologies have a positive impact on language teaching and learning, many of them are still reluctant in effectively incorporating them in education settings. Indeed, it was found out that less than 15% of the respondents use these platforms to interact with students and no more than 2.4% of the subjects are actively involved in creating educational content and uploading it on Web 2.0 applications. However, given the various benefits of these online communities, we recommend that more teachers should embrace them as fully as possible to support classroom goals.     

A Delphi study on collaborative learning in distance education: The faculty perspective

This paper focuses on the factors that influence collaborative learning in distance education. Distance education has been around for many years and the use of collaborative learning techniques in distance education is becoming increasingly popular. Several studies have demonstrated the superiority of collaborative learning over traditional modes of learning and it has been identified as a potential solution to some of the weaknesses of traditional distance education courses. There are a rapidly growing number of technologies in use today and educators and practitioners face an increasingly difficult challenge to successfully implement collaborative learning in distance education; precipitated not only from technical advances but also from wider social and organisational concerns. To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to investigate the factors that influence collaborative learning in distance education, by eliciting the opinions of an expert panel using a Delphi survey. The aim was to produce an integrated list of the most important implementation factors and to investigate the role that technology is perceived to contribute. The findings identified 17 of the most important factors; these factors cover a range of themes including course rationale and design, instructor characteristics, training, group dynamics, the development of a learning community and technology. The potential of technology, however, does not seem to be fully realised and newer technologies such as multi‐user environments would seem to be of limited use in practice according to the expert panel.     

Assessment of the Adult Student's Progress in an Online Environment

Communications technologies (i.e., Internet, videoconferencing, etc.) have propelled distance education to a vibrant and burgeoning field. Online education, which is centered on the use of the Internet and the World Wide Web (Web), presents a new generation of distance learning tools. The online learning environment frees students from the constraints of time and place, and it can be made universally available. Although online courses break down physical and temporal barriers of access to education, assessing students' learning is one of the challenges of online education. In an effort to meet the needs of measuring the learning effectiveness of adult students in an online learning environment, a response paper assignment was developed to serve as a tool to assess students in an online course. Then, it was executed in Fall 1999 during an online segment of Pepperdine University's Philosophy and Effects of Mass Communication (MSCO 560) course. This article presents a snapshot of the assessment tool (i.e., response paper), the process used to test the assessment tool, response paper results, response paper evaluation results, and a summary of the summative committee meeting.