Changing English in a Changing World

This paper first investigates the phenomenon of changing English in our global village and the possible reasons for the changes,and then tries to discuss how people can understand this kind of change in terms of English is regarded as lingua franca nowadays.Finally,the implications and suggestions are drawn in terms of how people should have appropriate attitudes towards those changes.     

论应用型本科院校团学活动在大学生职业指导中的作用

面对严峻的就业形势和大学生就业的迫切需要,要大力加强大学生职业指导。应用型本科院校团学活动作为培养大学生综合素质的良好平台,其在高校的职业指导中发挥着举足轻重的作用,有助于大学生树立正确的就业观、保持积极的就业心态,保障大学生顺利就业。     

网络时代远程教育在终身教育中的定位和作用——“第21届ICDE远程教育国际会议”评述

本文是一篇关于“第21届ICDE远程教育国际会议”的评述。作为本刊专家,受编辑部委托,通过评述方式向读者全面介绍了本次会议的情况。本评述包括五个部分:第一、会议的概述。其中包括会议的地点、主办单位、主题、主要内容、论文的征集、参会人员情况等;第二、主题报告的重点内容。其中包括联合国教科文组织助理总干事约翰·丹尼尔、中国科协副主席韦钰、英国开放大学校长布伦达·葛丽、加拿大英哥伦比亚大学教授托尼·贝茨等人的演讲;第三、专题核心观点:未来大学会消亡吗?第四、现代远程教育实践的创新;第五、总结部分。作者希冀本文能帮助读者全面了解会议之内容和精神,及国际远程教育领域学者的最新研究成果,吸收会议产生的有价值的理念、观点和方法,进而改善中国现代远程教育的实践。     

终身学习的发展与教师的角色转换

终身学习的思想尽管已经有几千年的历史,但我们还远没有将这一理念变为现实。终身学习在自身的发展过程中要经历曲“线”上整合到“网”上整合的阶段。实际上,终身学习是在教育民主化与科技发展的孵化下,在传统教育体系的基础上产生的。这一新型教育体系的师生关系是平等、互动的对话关系。在这种关系下,教师也由传统的知识权威变为共同的学习者、学习过程的促进者与批判型的分析者。     

空间学习:三维世界的“潜行者”

空间学习是学习科学的一个研究领域,其学习场所主要是在三维世界中,学习的对象是三维世界中的内容.文章首先对空间学习领域进行概述,在此基础上归纳出空间学习研究的主要内容,包括空间学习的认知过程、促进空间学习的思维表征工具系统、空间学习的实践探究三个方面;并对其研究成果以及相关典型案例进行介绍;最后,评析了空间学习领域的发展并总结该领域对我国空间学习研究的启示.     

满纸自怜题素怨片言谁解诉秋心 --浅议林黛玉的感情生活

林黛玉是从封建压迫下觉醒的一个女性.她是有叛逆思想的,但她对自己的价值,对自己的悲剧,认识得并不是很深刻.她的悲剧,是美好感情、高尚理想、一代才华被毁灭的悲剧,代表了那个时代女性的不幸和痛苦.贾府的贵族主子,可以容许肮脏污浊的垃圾存在,就是不准自主婚姻,不许纯真高尚的理想存在,这是林黛玉悲剧极为深刻的社会根源.黛玉短暂的生命及其感情生活,体现了一种崇高的悲剧价值,令人不得不扼腕长叹.     

变革世界中的远程教育--在2003世界开放大学校长会议上的发言

首先,我要说的是,我感到非常荣幸,上海电视大学校长邀请我参加首届世界开放大学校长会议。这是我第二次有幸应上海电视大学之邀参加重要的国际性会议,前一次是参加1998年举行的上海国际开放与远程教育研讨会。我要衷心地感谢上海电视大学邀请我参加本次会议并发表演讲。最重要的是,感谢上海电视大学1998年授予我荣誉教授。我明白,这是一个终生的荣誉和承诺。     

Challenges and a Changing Role

Eight participants at the annual NCSE conference held at Bristol in April took part in a taped discussion about the changing role of teachers in special education. an edited version of their discussion appears below
What are the new challenges you now face in special education and what problems arise in meeting these demands?     

教育测量的未来趋势

本文根据作者于2018年4月在纽约召开的(美国)全国教育测量学会(NCME)年会上的主席演讲稿修改而成。作者首先介绍了未来教育测量发展变化的11个可能特征、每个特征之所以重要的原因,以及应该如何看待这些变化。随后概述了未来教育测量领域不太可能发生变化的几个方面。最后对今后十年的教育发展进行了展望,并就这些发展对教育测量工作者可能产生的影响进行了讨论。     

在网络世界里终身学习--参加国际远程开放教育理事会第21届世界大会有感

2004年2月,国际远程开放教育理事会第21届世界大会在中国香港会展中心隆重召开,来自世界50多个国家及地区的500多名远程教育专家和学者出席了本届大会.中国内地的电大系统、普通高校及网络教育学院、教育研究机构和教育管理部门,以及港、台地区的代表,共计150多人参加了会议.     

Flexible Learning in a Digital World

This article and the book around which it based [Collis & Moonen (2001) Flexible Learning in a Digital World: experiences and expectations (London, Kogan Page)] is about changes in learning, teaching, the support and enterprise of education, and the role of technology in those changes. It considers these changes in a broad and integrated way using flexible learning as the integrating concept.     

解读情感在学习中的功能

任何认识过程都伴随着情感体验,在学生的学习活动(认识活动)中也是如此.本文对情感在学习中的功能进行了解读,指出情感对于学习具有调控、激励、导向与同化功能.     

正向学习情感对地方院校校园学习氛围的影响

正向学习情感是生命个体生命性特质存在,是生命化学习氛围得以形成的一个重要条件.因此,地方院校校园在营造学习氛围时应注重生命个体正向学习情感的双重作用,从而彰显正向学习情感在生命个体学习生活中的本体价值.     

The Role of Stress and Negative Emotions in an Occupational Crisis

The study examined how negative affects and exposure to various stressors are related to an occupational crisis. Two hundred and seventy-seven employees (53% women) from various occupations filled in the Occupational Crisis Scale, a stressor questionnaire, the Anger Expression Scale (measuring both suppressed and overt anger), Spielberger's Anxiety Inventory (measuring both state and trait anxiety) and Beck's Depression Inventory. The results showed that occupational crisis was a function of work overload, interpersonal problems and frustration at work, organizational changes, a threat of job loss, and/or family worries. In addition, occupational crises were typically experienced by women and were characterized more by trait anxiety, suppressed anger and depressive symptoms than by overtly expressed anger or state anxiety. Of the three female employee groups who were most vulnerable to the crisis, the group which had suffered from interpersonal problems and frustration at work displayed the most indices of the crisis.     

远程开放教育条件下教师角色的转换

传统学校教育中,教师角色是知识的传授、知识的复制、班级授课的主导。在远程开放教育条件下,教师必须转换角色,以培养学生的学习主动性和创造精神为目标,加强学习支持服务,成为导学主体。     

The Role of Humor in Learning Physics: a Study of Undergraduate Students

We all know that they do it, but what do students laugh about when learning science together? Although research has shown that students do use humor when they learn science, the role of humor in science education has received little attention. In this study, undergraduate students’ laughter during collaborative work in physics has been investigated. In order to do this, a framework inspired by conversation analysis has been used. Empirical data was drawn from two video-recorded sessions in which first-year engineering students solved physics problems together. The analysis revealed that the students’ use of humor was almost exclusively related to physics. Five themes identified summarize the role of humor in the group discussions: Something is obvious, Something is difficult, Something said might be wrong, Something is absurd, and Something said is not within informal norms.This study shows that humor may contribute not only to a good working atmosphere and thereby to the students’ learning but also how humor interrelates with both disciplinary culture of physics and its epistemology. The students do not only create and re-create humor that facilitates their social interactions, but through humor they constitute local norms of science and engage with the disciplinary discourse.     

Student Role Play in the World Forum: Analyses of an Arctic Adventure Learning Apprenticeship*

This study analyzes new forms of student social interaction and dialogue within asynchronous communications of six middle schools and six high schools participating in the World School for Adventure Learning. In the World Forum component of the World School, students discussed, questioned, and debated with Arctic explorers, researchers, World Forum mentors, and peers about environmental issues while assuming identities of famous people. One of the three key tasks, Flash Points, generated more lengthy dialogue than other techniques (i.e., Arctic Alerts and Questions to Explorers). Analysis of the forms of learning assistance provided to students indicated that mentor electronic interactions with students typically involved feedback, questioning, and cognitive structuring of the lesson or activity; however, minimal task structuring, direct instruction, and modeling of how to interact occurred. Whereas most student questions to explorers about envir onmental issues or expedition activities were lower-level knowledge and comprehension queries, many also were at the evaluation level. Despite the restricted assistance and limited student questioning, student role-taking activities within their environmental discussions enhanced the degree of perspective-taking exhibited in their conversations. Examining these interaction patterns, forms of mentor assistance, levels of questioning, and degrees of perspective-taking provides new insights into the impact of electronic communication on student learning when role playing, though many questions remain.