微课在数学分析教学中的应用

随着无线网络的全覆盖和手机等移动产品的普及,基于“微课”的学习越来越普遍,“微课”必将成为一种新的适应时代发展的教学模式和学习方法。基于微课小而精、制作简单、形式新颖、学习的时间和地点比较自由的特点,本文探索利用微课辅助教学,拓展教学新方法。     

激发者角色定位与影响激发因素的思考

教师在教学过程中所扮演的角色并非只是简单地进行知识的讲授，而应该是教学过程中的组织者和促进者，是学生学习动机的激发者。教师职业的这一角色定位不仅是由其职业性质所决定，更是由其影响并激励学生方式的特点所决定的。教师要成为一个成功的激发者，应当具有准确地理解学生学习动机、建立平等互动的师生关系和应对各种压力的能力，具备首先能够激发自己动机的素质。     

The engagement agenda,multimedia learning and the use of images in higher education lecturing: or,how to end death by PowerPoint

This article is concerned with student engagement and understanding in large group teaching in Higher Education (HE). Specifically, it is concerned with the application of Multimedia Learning (MML) methods in Politics, History, International Relations, Sociology, Social Work, and Business and Economics teaching that privilege the use of images to complement text in lecture presentations. This ‘visual’ method, it is claimed in the literature, generates engagement and understanding better than text alone. This article develops, applies and empirically tests with students, MML methods across a range of Higher Education disciplines over three years. The research deploys Participatory Action Research (PAR) methods engaging students as active agents of investigation and change. It finds evidence to support the hypothesis that apposite images combined with reduced text increases students’ engagement and understanding with academic content, but that much formal research needs to expand on the range of demographics tested.     

当代新易家的理论建构——评张其成博士后的易学四书

当代新易家的理论建构为 :中华文化的主干既不是儒家 ,也不是道家 ,而是通贯儒道二家的“易道”。易符、易图、象数是“易道”的载体和表达形式。易学与中国传统生命科学紧密结合在一起。消解科学文化与人文文化的对立 ,消解中国文化与西方文化的冲突 ,促进人与自然的和谐、科学与人文的互补、中西文化的融合是当代新易家的追求目标     

Paired peer learning through engineering education outreach

ABSTRACT

Undergraduate education incorporating active learning and vicarious experience through education outreach presents a critical opportunity to influence future engineering teaching and practice capabilities. Engineering education outreach activities have been shown to have multiple benefits; increasing interest and engagement with science and engineering for school children, providing teachers with expert contributions to engineering subject knowledge, and developing professional generic skills for engineers such as communication and teamwork. This pilot intervention paired 10 pre-service teachers and 11 student engineers to enact engineering outreach in primary schools, reaching 269 children. A longitudinal mixed methods design was employed to measure change in attitudes and Education Outreach Self-Efficacy in student engineers; alongside attitudes, Teaching Engineering Self-Efficacy and Engineering Subject Knowledge Confidence in pre-service teachers. Highly significant improvements were noted in the pre-service teachers’ confidence and self-efficacy, while both the teachers and engineers qualitatively described benefits arising from the paired peer mentor model.     

我国古代蒙学识字教材的历史沿革

首先通过界定，筛选出我国古代具有代表性的识字教材，并在此基础上将我国古代蒙学识字教材的发展历史分为雏形期；定型期；承袭期三个阶段。进而对每个阶段的识字教学思想、发展概况进行梳理，对其历史沿革过程中的规律进行总结。     

The effects of college students’ positive thinking,learning motivation and self-regulation through a self-reflection intervention in Taiwan

This quasi-experimental study examined the effects of a self-reflection intervention on college (college in this article refers to university-level education) students’ positive thinking, learning motivation and self-regulation in Taiwan. One hundred and two college students were selected to participate in an 18-week intervention forming the experimental group (EG) which emphasized providing main lecture, role-play, self-reflection activity, group discussion and group work. Another 179 college students from two other courses were selected as a comparison group. This study showed that supportive, resourced discussion with peers and instructor, self-reflection activities and assignment as a facilitative agent improved the EG students’ positive thinking, learning motivation and self-regulation. In addition, three structural equation models revealed that positive thinking had a strong and direct relation to Taiwanese college students’ pretest learning motivation (β?=?.85) and self-regulation (β?=?.77); learning motivation had a strong and direct relation to students’ pretest positive thinking (β?=?.86) and self-regulation (β?=?.81); and self-regulation had a strong and direct relation to students’ pretest positive thinking (β?=?.83) and learning motivation (β?=?.86). Instructional implications and research recommendations are discussed.     

Why some teachers easily learn to use a new virtual learning environment: a technology acceptance perspective

After a decade of virtual learning environments (VLEs) in higher education, many teachers still use only a minimum of its affordances. This study looked at how academic staff interacted with a new and unknown VLE in order to understand how technology acceptance and support materials influence (perceived and actual) task performance. In an experimental design, 36 participants were split into a control (online help) and experimental (instructor video) condition and completed five common teaching tasks in a new VLE. In contrast to most technology acceptance model research, this study found that perceived usefulness of the VLE was not related to (perceived) task performance. Perceived ease of use was related to intentions and actual behaviour in the VLE. Furthermore, no significant difference was found between the two conditions, although the experimental condition led to a (marginal) increase in time to complete the tasks.     

研究性学习在高职美术教学中的实践

本文针对高职教育美术教学的现状,探讨了研究性学习在美术教学中的实施策略和操作方法,证明了研究性学习在美术教学中具有增强学生合作精神、促进学生自主性学习、培养学生创新精神和实践能力等实际功效。