关于地市级电大建设开放大学的思考

依托电大建设开放大学是符合我国国情和电大特色与地位的现实选择。科学定位地市级开放大学的性质与功能,合理选择地市级开放大学建设的策略与路径,是建设地市级开放大学的关键所在。     

基于“大学、平台、系统”视角的区域开放大学内涵建设

依托省级电大建立区域开放大学,是地方电大实现转型提升发展的必然选择。区域开放大学建成后如何推进其内涵建设是区域开放大学要深入研究和探索实践的重要课题。文章结合电大办学的实践经验,从大学定位、平台服务功能、系统运行机制等方面,对区域开放大学内涵建设进行探讨。     

科学定位,理念转型先行

《国家开放大学建设方案》获得教育部党组原则通过,这在电大发展史上具有里程碑的意义,也是几代电大人梦寐以求的、为之奋斗努力的结果.令人兴奋不已.老一代电大人都知道.30年前创办电大到今天,经历学历补偿教育、普专生教育、注册视听生教育、开放教育几种办学形式,但始终没有找到定位,为电大的法律地位纠结,为学位问题纠结,一年一届的电大最高议事会议——书记校长会上也总是绕不过这道坎.这次国家开放大学的建设启动,似乎解开了一直长期压在电大人心中的纠结.     

建设基层开放大学的思考

《国家开放大学建设方案》的公布,拉开了广播电视大学向开放大学战略转型的序幕。在基层如何建设开放大学？值得每位电大工作者思考。准确理解和把握国家开放大学的内涵和办学理念,结合当地实际准确定位,在此基础上力争提升基层电大办学质量,紧跟国家开放大学建设步伐,是建设基层开放大学的正确途径。     

电大实施现代远程开放教育对策

电大要发展,长远发展目标应定位在实施现代远程开放教育。电大实施现代远程开放教育要按照“三个代表”的要求,重视软硬件投入和队伍建设,使电大满足现代远程开放教育的需要;加强网络文化建设,使电大成为传播先进文化的阵地;加大招生培训力度,使教职工的工作条件和收入逐步改善和提高。     

广播电视大学的定位与系统建设

本文是广播电视大学改革发展咨询委员会<中国电大定位与电大系统建设>研究课题的主要研究成果.文章系统论述了电大定位和电大系统的内涵;全面回顾了电大30年改革与发展的历史,提出了电大定位和系统建设的规律性认识;立足电大发展,客观分析了电大现实存在的问题;面向未来,阐述了电大定位的原则和加强系统建设的指导思想,提出了电大定位和加强系统建设的思路,为电大可持续发展战略决策提供咨询意见.     

电大远程开放教育信用管理专业定位与学习支持服务研究

电大远程开放教育信用管理专业建设基本问题包括定位研究、如何在远程开放教育信用管理专业的建设上走出有电大特色的服务取胜之路等相关问题。走有电大特色的服务取胜之路是远程开放教育信用管理专业建设成功的“蓝海战略”。在这一战略思想指导下,我们已经利用了电大的优势,在该领域获取了多项“第一”。     

加强理论研究积极实践探索努力开创远程开放教育研究工作的新局面

加强现代远程开放教育研究,是加快电大改革发展的重要保证。为此。要强化科研的基础地位和先导作用,坚持理论联系实际的研究工作原则,加强队伍建设,扩大学术交流,重点围绕“开放教育试点”项目、电大发展定位、电大系统建设、农村远程教育和学科专业建设等问题积极开展研究和探索。     

依托电大建设开放大学的思路与构想

建设具有中国特色的现代远程教育开放大学,是国家对广播电视大学发展的要求,也是电大教育发展的必然趋势.广播电视大学30年的发展为建设国家开放大学奠定了重要基础,但依托电大建设国家开放大学,还必须进一步加强电大的办学实力建设,进行电大办学系统的体制和机制改革.     

电大教育的一项发展战略：打造教育品牌

人才培养模式改革和开放教育试点项目通过教育部评估后,"扩大开放,保证质量,强化特色,打造品牌"已成为电大教育发展方针.当前电大教育正以"理念引导、定位先行、固本培元、度势发展"的思路,积极打造知名的教育品牌,以形成强有力的竞争.文中阐述开放教育品牌建设对提升电大教育社会竞争力的重要性,并总结江西广播电视大学开放教育品牌创建实践.     

组织学习:教师学习活动的薄弱环节

在教师的学习活动中,组织学习是薄弱环节。教师个人学习偏重元认知学习、教辅性学习和专业技能学习,反思性学习较少;教师组织学习多为传统常规活动,偏重个人专业发展,而以学校发展为核心的组织学习较少。教师学习活动对学习效果具有明显的积极作用,但局限于个体学习和专业发展。     

How a Learning Community Enhances Individual Learning in a Graduate Distance Education Program

Little empirical research is currently available on Jewish distance learning, a nascent but growing field of practice. By way of qualitative case study methodology, this research explored the learning experience of a group of adult learners participating in a Jewish education Master's degree program that is offered by way of videoconferencing technology. A key finding was that the learning community constituted an informal learning context, fostering openness to new perspectives, appreciation of collaborative learning, and critically reflective thinking. The study sheds light on the unique cultural vestiges that enhance Jewish learners' shared spirit or desire for community, and their motivation and ability to create it in a distance learning program, as well as on what facilitates and/or hinders learning. The principle recommendation was that to enhance learning, educators in videoconferencing programs should work toward making the learning community a visible entity, and should facilitate collaborative learning opportunities for students both within and across sites.     

Learning to learn: Learning therapy in a college classroom

This paper describes the structure and rationale of the Language and Learning Seminar, a college course that grapples with learned helplessness issues that are frequently associated with LD. Peer/mentors play a vital role in its dynamic oral, written, and electronic communications. Elements of the course work synergistically to bypass long-standing emotional and linguistic barriers to learning. Yalom’s classification of therapeutic elements in group therapy serves as a context in which to explain the learning therapy provided by York University since 1987.     

Transfer of Learning as a Specific Case of Transition between Learning Contexts in a French Work-Integrated Learning Programme

The aim of this article is to discuss transfer of learning in a tertiary technical course in the French educational context. The focus is on a pedagogical sequence (i.e. a complex problem-solving activity) requiring different types of knowledge that students are expected to have learnt previously in the different parts of their training course (both at university and in the workplace). The theoretical approach considers transfer of learning as a complex transition, including not only cognitive but also social and identity changes. This type of transition can be more or less difficult according to the types of knowledge and the pedagogical organisation of the training course, including more or less connective activities between its different components. We recorded two groups of students during the pedagogical sequence and analysed their collective activity during the problem solving. Our findings show that students can easily transfer concrete knowledge from the workplace whereas they have great difficulty in using theoretical concepts and methods coming from the academic teachings at the university. We propose an interpretation of the students?? difficulties by analysing the characteristics of these different social learning contexts. We also discuss the way in which such types of connective activities can be designed and managed by teachers to improve their efficiency.     

Learning in Later Life: What Seniors Want in a Learning Experience

By designing effective learning opportunities for older adults, educators can make a positive contribution to the problem of a “graying America.” Because older adults themselves may offer important insights on what helps and hinders their learning, this qualitative study explored the perceptions of 36 older learners on effective and ineffective learning experiences. The following are the main findings that emerged from the data: (a) effective learning experiences are involving, (b) the instructor is a key component in the classroom, and (c) familiar or relevant topics are interesting. Recommendations for designing, marketing, and delivering quality learning experiences for older adults are discussed.     

学习策略:维持性学习和创新性学习的桥梁

维持性学习到创新性学习是一个连续体，没有不可愈越的鸿沟，而学习策略的灵活运用，则是维持性学习通向创新性学习的重要门户。     

Effects of Collaborative and Individual Learning in a Blended Learning Environment

In courses using a virtual learning environment (VLE), some students like to work together, and some do not. If we give students the opportunity to choose either teamwork or individual study, how does this affect their marks and their appraisal and assessment of the course? This question has been investigated in the context of an English Literature course at the University of Utrecht. In this course, students work intensively with a VLE, and attend lectures: a blended learning environment. Previous research has shown that the pedagogical design used provides a powerful learning environment. This time, students had the choice of working on the course assignments in small teams (2–4 students), or individually. Both groups were compared based on their study results, and the answers to a questionnaire. Students valued the choice. Mainly those students with high marks for a previous course, which had a similar pedagogical design, preferred collaboration. Statistical analysis showed that collaboration resulted in significantly better marks.     

Learning Communities as a First Step in an Integrative Learning Curriculum

Norah Shultz describes Arcadia University's unique learning communities that support student interactions with each other and the world outside the classroom.     

无缝学习--数字时代学习的新常态

随着无线网络、便携终端在教育中日益广泛的应用,“无缝学习”成为新兴的研究热点。近年来出现的一系列教学创新,从视频微课、翻转课堂到MOOC(大众公播课,国内简称“慕课”),都在强化无缝学习的发展趋向,使其成为数字时代学习的新常态。本文在考察无缝学习发展起源的基础上,提炼出无缝学习的三维特征,无缝学习系统的构成要素,最后分析了实施无缝学习带来的新挑战。