网络课程及其有效设计的六项原则--e-learning国际著名专家克拉克与梅耶的观点综述

e-learning是通过计算机传递教学内容和教学方法，为完成个人或企业目标而设计的知识和技能建构过程。评价e-learning课程要十分重视理解学习的认知过程。依据梅耶等人的研究，运用多种媒体、邻近呈现信息、言语讲解优先、适当控制冗余、避免诱人细节和凸现沟通特点等是改进e-learning的重要原则。     

‘The fun we had and the way we went about it’: Is now the time to learn lessons from L.A.T.E.’s past?

In the United Kingdom there appears to be a move to reduce the influence of ‘top down’ or centrally driven teaching and learning reforms in favour of returning control to schools and teachers to make necessary improvements at a local level. In this context, ideas about ‘professional learning communities’ or ‘communities of practice’ are potentially fruitful. This article, drawing on the author’s own research, suggests that if we are to take subject English into a life beyond the National Strategies, it would be worth our remembering how one English ‘community of practice’– the London Association for the Teaching of English – helped to shape one model of the discipline.