口译的Blended Learning应用模式构建

混合式学习将传统课堂教学和网络数字化学习的优势相结合,有效提高学生的学习效果。技能训练是口译教学的核心内容,课堂内外需花大量时间。利用现代信息技术,并发挥课堂人际真实交流的便利,构建口译的混合式学习应用模式,促进学习者口译技能的掌握。     

Web geometry laboratory: case studies in Portugal and Serbia

The role of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education is well recognised – learning environments where the ICT features included are being proposed for many years now. The Web Geometry Laboratory (WGL) innovates in proposing a blended learning, collaborative and adaptive learning Web-environment for geometry. It integrates a well-known dynamic geometry system providing an adaptive environment where face-to-face activities can be combined with computer-mediated activities, in a collaborative or stand-alone, synchronous or asynchronous, classroom or homework way. The WGL collaborative environment allows each student to capitalise on one another's resources and skills. Its adaptive module gives to each teacher the ability to assess the geometric level of each student, allowing the teacher to build the individual profile and/or learning paths. In this paper we begin describing what are the goals that support the development of such an environment, the goals that support our beliefs in the usefulness of such an environment for the teaching and learning of geometry, after which we describe the environment and the case studies already conducted.     

远程开放教育中英语听力教改模式实践反思

当代互联网的迅速发展及在教学领域的普遍应用正在引起英语听力教学模式的深刻变化。本文以混合式学习理论为指导,探索和实践了混合式教学模式在远程开放教育英语听力教学中的应用,它能充分发挥校园网、互联网的优势,使教学更加科学化、趣味化、社会化,培养了学生自主学习能力,在英语听力教学上取得了良好的效果。     

Rethinking customer service training: A curricular solution to a familiar problem

High-quality customer service is an important aim of the library experience. Its importance is evidenced by attention given to the topic in scholarly literature and academic conference proceedings. This article describes the challenging process of creating and delivering a blended customer service training curriculum to all library staff working at public service points in the University of Maryland Libraries. An online course, in-person workshops, and digital badges were devised. Assessment was conducted at the end of the first year, resulting in revisions to the course.     

疫情背景下高校继续教育培训思考与实践

新冠肺炎疫情既给高校继续教育工作带来了一场磨难与洗礼,也为高校继续教育的改革、创新与发展提供了重要突破口和宝贵机遇。本文结合现阶段高校继续教育管理与实践,梳理讨论了高校继续教育发展的现状,重点剖析了继续教育面临的历史机遇与挑战,并提出了探索线上交付课程、线下实战分享的"混合式"继续教育教学模式,探索与国外大学深入合作的继续教育模式,探索通过定位精准、政策支持来构建全民终身教育体系等建议,为今后其他高校的继续教育改革、创新与发展提供思路。     

Professional Development of Physics Teachers in an Evidence-Based Blended Learning Program

The present study examined continuity of learning between face-to-face and online environments in a “blended” professional development program designed for 16 physics teachers. The program had nine face-to-face meetings as well as continuous online exchanges between them through a website. The program focused on “knowledge integration” (KI) innovative activities in physics classes using an “evidence-based” approach: The teachers implemented the activities, collected and analyzed data about their practice and their students’ learning, and reflected on the evidence with their peers. Five reflective tools were used to promote continuity: Your Comments, Hot Polls, Smashing Sentences, Hot Reports, and Mini Research. Continuity was assessed with regard to the ideas discussed by the teachers and the reasoning patterns that they employed. Analysis of the online exchanges in relation to teachers’ face-to-face discourse revealed that the teachers discussed the same ideas (KI, evidence and learner-centered pedagogies), employed the same reasoning patterns (e.g., forming generalizations), and extended ideas in re-visitation. The online and face-to-face environments played different and complementary roles in the teachers’ learning. This study shows that appropriate use of an online environment in a blended program can lead to a continuous course of learning and can transform a “9 once-a-month-meetings” workshop into a “9-month” workshop.     

Development of a scale on learners' views on blended learning and its implementation process

The purpose of this study was to extend the evaluation of learners' views on blended learning and its implementation process by developing and validating an objective assessment instrument. Cronbach' alpha, item analysis and item discrimination indices, principal component analysis, varimax rotation, and discriminant validity were used to measure the reliability and validity of the scale. A 50-item refined version of the scale was found to be highly reliable and of reasonable length.Further refinement was made based on principal component analysis. This indicated two major components, which facilitate the elicitation of learners' views on blended learning and its implementation process in relation to the complexity levels of the learning process.The scale is recommended to identify individual's views on blended learning and its implementation process and thus, to contribute to the improvement of a blended learning environment for learners.     

Making the most of “external” group members in blended and online environments

Although the importance of boundary spanning in blended and online learning is widely acknowledged, most educational research has ignored whether and how students learn from others outside their assigned group. One potential approach for understanding cross-boundary knowledge sharing is Social Network Analysis (SNA). In this article, we apply four network metrics to unpack how students developed intra- and inter-group learning links, using two exemplary blended case studies in Spain and the UK. Our results indicate that SNA based upon questionnaires can provide researchers some useful indicators for a more fine-grained analysis how students develop these inter- and intra-group learning links, and which cross-boundary links are particularly important for learning performance. The mixed findings between the two case-studies suggest the relevance of pre-existing conditions and learning design. SNA metrics can provide useful information for qualitative follow-up methods, and future interventions using learning analytics approaches.