移动学习在高职教育学习平台中的应用研究

移动学习是教师将教育内容与教育服务通过无线网络技术或移动通信技术进行信息传输,学生利用便携式的智能移动设备获取学习信息、学习资源和学习服务而进行的学习方式,教师与学生可以通过移动计算技术实现交互式的学习。利用移动学习便捷、及时的特点,在分析移动学习的学习模式、课程设计的基础上,研究移动学习在高职教育教学过程中的应用。     

“大学英语B”移动学习实证研究——基于FRAME模型的设计与开发

随着信息技术的发展,移动学习越来越受到各级各类教育和培训机构的青睐。众多机构和院校纷纷设立项目开展研究,但这些研究要么尚局限于大学的普适技术实验室,要么在学校中被看作是课堂学习的补充,即使是在电大系统中也大多当作信息交流和日常管理的平台。本研究以电大系统广泛采用的蓝卓校园网为平台,以北京广播电视大学五所分校的100名本科学生为研究对象,采用手机彩信(MMS)方式为试点学生发送教育部统考"大学英语B"微型课件。本研究以FRAME移动学习分析模型为出发点,在实验前期对学习对象、教学设计、内容呈现等方面做了充分调研。经过一个学期的试点后,从实验效果、学习者认可度和对下一步实验的意见、建议等方面实施了调查问卷和访谈。研究结果表明,与控制组学生相比,实验组学生考试通过率大幅度提升,绝大部分成人学习者对这种学习方式持欢迎态度,并对扩大试点范围和内容针对性等方面提出了建议。由于该研究是基于教学实践的实证研究,将对以后移动学习的普及乃至泛在学习的未来发展提供案例参考。     

基于移动学习的英语深度学习实证研究--以河南科技学院为例

移动学习已成为教育应用的前沿领域和研究热点。文章以问卷调查的方式,对学习者移动学习的现状进行了深入调查。结果发现：目前的移动学习存在很多问题,在很大程度上停留在浅层水平,不能激发学习者的高级思维,不能开展高效、深刻的学习。为了提高移动学习的效果,首先要加深学习者对移动学习的认识,其次要不断完善移动设备,再次要设计恰当的学习材料、创建移动学习共同体,最后要开展过程性评价。     

基于建构主义学习理论的移动学习教学设计研究

移动学习是一种依托现代移动通讯技术的一种新型学习模式.这种学习模式与以往的学习模式相比在灵活性、泛在性、情境性、交互性、协作性、自主性、实时性、片段性方面的特征更为突出.基于建构主义学习理论的移动学习教学设计属于一种面向学习者以学为中心的教学设计,这种教学设计应围绕着学习者的意义建构展开并注重如何利用或规避淡化移动学习系统的特征对学习者意义建构的有利与不利影响,着眼于充分发挥移动学习系统的优势,规避和淡化其不足.     

基于云计算的移动学习资源开发初探

移动学习是一种能满足学习者随时随地学习的新型学习模式,云计算技术是基于互联网的、将大量资源聚合于巨大存储器中的、具有超强计算能力的一种先进技术,将云计算技术应用于移动学习资源的开发,为移动学习的发展创造全新的视野,能为移动学习者提供无限丰富的学习内容,使他们实现真正意义上的移动学习。     

The Complexity of Learning: Exploring the Interplay of Different Mediational Means in Group Learning with Digital Tools

The relationship between the different mediational means for supporting students’ learning with digital tools in science group work in a Norwegian lower-secondary school is examined. Analyses of teacher-student and student-student interactions are located in cultural-historical theory and draw on Galperin’s conceptualisation of learning processes. Findings show that digital tools, task design, peer collaboration, and teacher’s interventions dialectically interplay to shape how learners use mediational means: (1) digital tools are the resources that enable students to explicate their (mis)understandings; (2) compare-and-contrast tasks promote analytical thinking; (3) peers present themselves as resources who promote development of conceptual understanding; (4) the teacher guides learners’ attention towards the potential of the mediational resources, elicits, organises, and structures students’ knowledge. The dialectical interplay of these mediational means creates a system that supports and guides students’ learning.     

The promise and the promises of Making in science education

Making is a rapidly emerging form of educational practice that involves the design, construction, testing, and revision of a wide variety of objects, using high and low technologies, and integrating a range of disciplines including art, science, engineering, and mathematics. It has garnered widespread interest and support in both policy and education circles because of the ways it has been shown to link science learning to creativity and investigation. Making has taken root in out-of-school settings, such as museums, science festivals, and afterschool and library programmes; and there is now growing interest from primary and secondary educators in how it might be incorporated into the classroom. Making expands on traditions associated with Technology Education and Design-Based Learning, but differs in ways that can potentially broaden participation in science and STEM learning to include learners from communities historically underrepresented in STEM fields. STEM-Rich Making is centrally organised around design and engineering practices, typically integrating digital tools and computational practices, and positions scientific and mathematical concepts and phenomena as the materials for design. This paper takes a critical view of the claims about Making as a productive form of science teaching and learning, and reviews the current research literature’s substantiation of the ways in which Making supports students’ agency, promotes active participation in science and engineering practices, and leverages learners’ cultural resources.     

开放大学有效学习资源建设的思考

开放大学学习资源建设,必须根据其特定的学习环境和其特定的学习对象,设计有效的学习资源。有效学习资源是教师基于对学习者的学习条件和学习需求、对课程学科体系和内容以及学习媒体进行相应的分析后,通过教学设计,运用现代教育信息技术提供给学习者的符合教育、教学原理,能够满足课程教学要求,有助于学习者学到更多、更牢固、更核心课程内容的学习资源。     

Bodystorming Mobile Learning Experiences

Bodystorming is a technique used by designers to better understand how the settings where interactive systems are deployed might affect their intended uses. The articulation of design concepts “in the wild” and using forms of performance and improvisation are intended to help designers become more aware of contextual issues that may not be revealed in traditional brainstorming exercises. Bodystorming can be a useful technique for designers of mobile learning experiences, as it helps make interactions between learners, devices, and locations more explicit. The general method is described in this paper and followed by two case studies of its use in the design of mobile learning experiences.     

Mobile microlearning design and effects on learning efficacy and learner experience

Mobile microlearning platforms have increased over the years. Literature shows that platforms use specific instructions or media, such as videos or multiformat materials (e.g., text, audio, quizzes, hands-on exercises). However, few studies investigate whether or how specific design principles used on these platforms contribute to learning efficacy. A mobile microlearning course for journalism education was developed using the design principles and instructional flow reported in literature. The goal of this formative research was to study the mobile microcourse’s learning efficacy, defined as effectiveness, efficiency, and appeal. Learners’ knowledge before and after the mobile microcourse was analyzed using semistructured questionnaires as well as pretests and posttests to measure differences. The results indicate that learners of this mobile microcourse had an increase in knowledge, more certainty in decisions about practical applications, and an increase in confidence in performing skills. However, automated feedback, timed gamified exercises, and interactive real-world content indicate room for improvement to enhance effective learning.

     

Towards convergence of mobile and psychological theories of learning

This special issue was designed to promote an integration of mobile and psychological theories of learning by inviting empirical research that draws upon both theoretical approaches to guide investigation into learning involving mobile devices. Five empirical articles illustrated how mobile devices afford resources to learners and how new channels of data afford researchers new insight into learning processes. Authors of two invited commentaries note the challenges involved in researching mobile learning, which unfolds across multiple contexts and can involve novel tools, multiple learners, and instructors and experts. These authors propose a taxonomy that can organize research that investigates interactions amongst learners, instructors, experts, and tools across one or more physical contexts, as well as a research agenda that would empirically test and refine assumptions made by mobile learning theorists. In this commentary, the editorial team proposes that mobile and psychological theories may be improved through convergence. Theories of mobile learning can be advanced by adopting practices previously employed to refine psychological theories of learning, whereas conducting research using mobile devices (and the data they provide) can further refine psychological theories of learning. We illustrate these positions with examples, and consider how instruction must be designed and how learners must be prepared in order to benefit from learning using mobile technology.     

From Deficit to Asset: Locating Discursive Resistance in a Refugee-Background Student’s Written and Oral Narrative

This article examines how a refugee-background student of Somali Bantu heritage employs linguistic resources to make sense of his experience with forced migration, resettlement, and formal education. Much of the educational research on refugee-background students (and other groups of English learners) propagates a deficit orientation in which educational gaps and challenges, rather than educational resources and potential, are the central focus. In contrast, this student’s written and oral narratives construct a different identity, reframing his experience in terms of asset rather than deficit. Our discussion of asset discourse focuses on three central themes: agency, critical awareness, and contribution. This analysis suggests broader implications for research in educational linguistics and related fields.     

‘You Norwegians think we female Muslims are not free’: enactment of gendered positional identities during transition stages

This article describes two young Norwegian ethnic-minority girls in their efforts to involve social networks and to position themselves as learners in the transition between lower and upper secondary school. The article explores how they experience future possibilities represented by education and how they use resources in negotiating their everyday lives. We use the concept of social gendered positional identities to study how educational choices are individually and collectively formed and enacted in these girls’ everyday figured worlds. The study builds on ethnographic data collected by following two classmates across multiple settings over two years. We develop biographical cases to demonstrate how cultural factors relevant to learning emerged in particular contexts. The article concludes that gendered positions and choices made in educational transitions are connected and that meta-reflections on personal identity can help students to make decisions about the future.     

Mobile devices in early childhood education: teachers’ views on benefits and barriers

Mobile devices and, in particular, tablets have become increasingly popular in young children’s lives; however, there is limited empirical evidence regarding early childhood teachers’ perceptions on mobile technology-learning in early years. This study investigated teachers’ views on mobile devices’ usage in early childhood education classrooms, focusing on their perceived benefits, barriers and their concerns. A questionnaire with open ended questions was completed by 30 early childhood education teachers, in Greece. The primary perceived benefits regarded the facilitation of the educational process, the interactive learning environment and the support of children’s learning and development. Major perceived barriers were related to the lack of (or limited) resources/equipment, the limited teacher training opportunities and lack of funding, while key concerns regarded the constraint of hands-on experiences, children’s concentration, and cyber safety issues. Implications for pre-service and in-service teacher training, educational policy and practice, as well as links between home and school are discussed.

     

Against empathy: moving beyond colonizing practices in educational technology

Empathetic design is the ability for the designer to predict the cognitive and emotional experience of learners as they engage with the design product and process. It aims to center sensitivity toward learners, and the design process as a whole, which suggests potential application in educational settings. In the shift to digital, empathetic design may help instructors imagine learners’ thoughts and feelings engaged during the learning activity, and make iterative changes in response. Though empathetic design highlights sensitivity toward learners, by attempting to ‘be’ the other, it may unintentionally enact practices, and ideologies, of colonization. Recommendations for praxis via humanizing pedagogy are offered.

     

移动学习中内容设计策略研究

如何使移动技术在教学中发挥其众多优势,已成为教育技术学者十分关心的话题。分析移动学习的理论基础以及主要的实施方式,并从如何更好地促进移动学习者学习的角度出发,提出移动学习中学习内容设计的几点策略,以期对本领域的研究有所帮助。     

Developing writing skills of learners with persistent literacy difficulties through explicit grammar teaching

The benefits of grammar instruction in the teaching of writing is contested in most English‐speaking countries (Jones et al., 2012). The majority of Anglophone countries abandoned the teaching of grammar in the 1950s based on the conclusions that it had no positive impact on learners’ development of reading, writing and language (Locke, 2005). Through an action research design, this study aims at gaining a further understanding of how the explicit teaching of grammar in context can benefit learners with persistent literacy difficulties by adapting the Grammar for Writing materials (Myhill, 2013). It intends to improve educational practice (Koshy, 2010) through action, analysis and reflection.     

网络教育手机移动学习状况调查与研究

以安徽合肥职业技术学院奥鹏学习中心作个案研究,使用问卷调查、访谈及O ES管理平台数据分析三种研究方法,通过探究网络教育移动学习平台目前的应用现状、效果、存在的问题,得出移动学习物质基础优良、学习资源匮乏、平台功能不齐全的研究结论,并提出加强和引导移动学习的认识和习惯,加大建设移动学习资源,完善移动学习平台和提高学习支持服务水平以发展网络教育移动学习的建议。     

Programming MOOCs – different learners and different motivation

ABSTRACT

MOOCs for learning the basics of programming have become popular among people with a diverse range of backgrounds, interests and learning contexts. Studies show that learners who enrol in MOOCs tend to have different motivation from learners in traditional courses, but it is not known how motivation differs for people with different backgrounds. This study aims to describe how the motivational factors behind enrolment in programming MOOCs relate to learners’ characteristics. The data were gathered in the spring of 2017 with a motivation scale (FIEM) from 1,536 participants of the MOOC ‘About Programming’. Using comparative analysis, differences in motivational factors between groups by gender, employment status and previous experiences in programming were found. Correlational analysis revealed that educational level, age and self-evaluated probability of completing the MOOC were also related to motivational factors. Different people are motivated by different factors, indicating that this knowledge could be used to design interesting and motivating programming MOOCs, which are relevant to learners with various backgrounds.