Enhancing Teaching and Learning: Libraries and Open Educational Resources in the Classroom

Academic libraries continually adjust services to adapt to the ever-changing landscape in higher education. In response to the broken textbook market, libraries are becoming actively involved in the open educational resources (OER) movement. Although there is not a formal program in place, librarians at Utah State University explored a collaborative approach to integrate OER in faculty members' courses. One goal of the effort was to work closely with faculty to consider course objectives and learning outcomes when evaluating and incorporating OER. This article identifies a streamlined process for targeting courses most suited for OER adoption and outlines a process of collaborating with teaching faculty to integrate relevant OER. The paper includes a detailed workflow that other libraries can easily adapt to make OER part of their faculty outreach toolkit.     

现代远程教育——实现我国高等教育公平的砝码

现行教育尤其是高等教育在城乡、区域、阶层等方面存在着现实上的不公平。囿于主客观原因,其主要体现为教育权利与机会的不平等以及公共教育资源占有的不平等。而现代远程教育所独具的特性,使其无论在实现教育机会与过程的平等,还是在实现教育结果的平等上都有着突出的作用。为此,大力扶持现代远程教育的快速发展应成为我们目前情境下的首要之选。     

开放教育考试管理模式研究

开放教育考试管理模式是在开放教育形式基础上衍生的一种新型的考试管理模式。针对我国当前教育考试管理模式现状,提出开放教育考试管理模式改革的内容,方法,类型以及相应的改革思路。     

Reflectors as online extraverts?

Increasingly, online learning is perceived as an effective method of instruction. Much recent educational research has focused on examining the purposes and situations for which online education is best suited. In this paper, students enrolled in two online courses are compared with their peers enrolled in equivalent classroom‐based courses to investigate aspects of the relationship between learning style and mode of delivery. Student satisfaction measures are taken from participants in both modes of delivery and compared with student learning style. Feedback from the ‘Reflector’ learning style demonstrates higher satisfaction levels with the online mode of delivery compared with their matched counterparts following equivalent classroom‐based courses. Therefore, whilst ‘Reflectors’ might be regarded as Introverts in the traditional classroom setting, the additional time for reflection offered by online delivery makes this group more likely to contribute to online discussion, report higher satisfaction levels and generally behave more like online Extraverts.     

远程开放教育英语口语能力培养模式初探

远程开放教育教与学在时空上的分离，学员处于相对离散状态，给英语专业学员口语能力培养带来一定的困难。为提高人才培养质量，加强学员英语运用能力，应利用英语沙龙、电子邮箱、课前十分钟、小组学习等建立一套和远程开放教育英语专业教与学特点相适应的口语能力培养模式。     

理想与现实：贵州普通高校教师队伍建设研究报告

西部大开发,发展民族地区的经济需要把沉重的劳动力负担转换为强大的人力资源优势,其关键在于发展高等教育,特别是高等教育教师队伍建设更是值得关注。提升高等教育竞争力,建设高素质的高校教师队伍,是当前高等教育需要思考的问题。透视贵州省普通高校教师队伍建设的现状及存在的问题,提出应对策略,为我省高等教育的进一步发展提供了具体的政策性建议。     

实施现代远程教育工程改变四川民族地区教育面貌

地处“西部中的西部”的四川省民族地区的教育,由于社会经济发展滞后、教育资源及结构的缺失等深刻的历史、现实因素所造成的落后现状,在西部大开发实施追赶型、跨越式发展战略的今天,成为一个无法回避的制约“瓶颈”。新旧世纪交替期勃然兴起的现代远程教育,以其费省效宏、资源共享、快速弥合差距等优势,成为变革民族地区教育面貌的“利器”。本文据此探讨了以广播电视大学为代表的四川远程教育在这一变革中的基本思路、重要的基础性工作及其实践。     

外语学习习得化可行性研究

儿童习得第一语言是语言学习最成功的范例,外语学习能否采用习得的方式历来是一个引起争议的问题.本文以第一语言习得的内外部条件为切入点,来探究外语学习习得化的可行性.     

浅谈导学群的服务体系和技术环节的作用

导学群新概念的提出是我省电大开放教育新模式的教学服务理念,它的运行机制是围绕学生自主学习服务体系而构建的技术环节在导学群服务体系中起着非常重要的作用。