MOOC在社区教育中的应用路径探索——基于开放大学建设的视角

MOOC（MassiveOpenOnlineCourse）即大规模开放性在线课程,是当前风行于发达国家的新型网络教学模式,其开放、大规模等特征有助于中国社区教育的普及,并完善终身教育体系的构建。从MOOC原初理论出发,挖掘MOOC的内涵和价值能更好的借鉴国外的实践经验,从学习者、社区学院、教育管理部门三个角度探究其在中国社区教育中的应用路径,分析在我国社区教育中推行MOOC可能遇到的障碍．进而从服务职能提升、终身教育实践能力发展和学业评价科学化三个方面,阐述MOOC在开放大学建设中的意义。     

William Horsley: music master at Miss Black’s boarding‐school for young ladies, 1828–1840

William Horsley (1775–1858) was active in London from the late 1790s. A founder member of the Philharmonic Society, Horsley was at the heart of the musical establishment, working as a composer, organist, commentator and teacher. His teaching career spanned over 50 years, during which time he took private pupils, trained choristers and organists and taught at many boarding‐schools for young ladies. In 1809 Miss Ann Black took up residence at 37 Kensington Square, where she opened a boarding‐school and engaged Horsley as music master in 1828. Her school prospectus and surviving correspondence offer an insight into the difficulty of sustaining a viable school business in a competitive market. Horsley’s papers shed light on the business dealings between masters and school proprietors, both depending on income from pupils to sustain them. Through his correspondence and published work we learn more of Horsley’s teaching method and of his working relationships with his pupils.     

Assessing twenty‐first century skills through a teacher created video game for high school biology students

As twenty‐first century skills become a greater focus in K‐12 education, an infusion of technology that meets the needs of today’s students is paramount. This study looks at the design and creation of a Multiplayer Educational Gaming Application (MEGA) for high school biology students. The quasi‐experimental, qualitative design assessed the twenty‐first century skills of digital age literacy, inventive thinking, high productivity, and effective communication techniques of the students exposed to a MEGA. Three factors, as they pertained to these skills, emerged from classroom observations. Interaction with the teacher, discussion with peers, and engagement/time‐on‐task while playing the MEGA suggested that students playing an educational video game exhibited all of the projected twenty‐first century skills while being engrossed in the embedded science content.