远程教育学习支持服务满意度调查分析

远程教育机构关注的焦点在于学生的学。本研究把学习者的满意度作为学习支持服务的衡量标尺,从服务对象出发,展开学习支持服务满意度调查。结果表明,学习者对学习支持服务总体上呈现出比较满意的状态。专业对学生满意度影响较为显著;就地域来看,苏北、苏南区域差异变得不甚明显。研究者认为,必须根据学习者的需求,针对学习支持服务中存在的问题,更新理念,投入更多的人力与物力,为建设开放大学打下坚实基础。     

教育游戏“农场狂想曲2”中的学习迁移

教育仿真游戏是否对学生的迁移具有作用?本文采用个案法研究农场狂想曲2中学生的学习迁移,结果发现,有提示问题的个案发生了远迁移,迁移的知识层次达到了分析、综合和评价的高阶思维水平,而没有提示问题的个案即发生了近迁移或者没有迁移。     

基于工作过程的网站开发课程教学改革实践

对基于工作过程的网站项目开发课程进行了分析,给出了网站项目开发的工作过程和学习任务,在此基础上对典型学习任务——商品信息列表模块进行了设计与实现.在项目开发过程中,要准确把握用户意图,着力培养学生的综合开发能力.     

An Analysis of Foreign Language Learning Styles from the Cognitive Perspective

From the 1970s,learning styles began to enter the domain of foreign language learning researches.Foreign language learning style is often regarded as a significant factor attributing to individual differences among language learners.Nowadays,many researchers begin studying individual learners’characteristics and exploring how different learners interact with external factors from cognitive perspective.The field-independence/dependence construct became a focus.Based on previous studies,the paper is committed to analyzing the nature of FID learners.It is expected that this research can establish a well-grounded basis for following studies.     

澳门成人教育发展特征及未来走向探析

澳门开埠400多年来由于澳葡政府不重视教育,成人教育在推进民众教育上承担着极为重的作用。本文回顾了澳门成人教育的发展历史,分析了澳门成人教育的发展特征及存在的问题,展望了澳门成人教育的未来发展趋势。     

对一位大班数学学习困难儿童的个案研究——重点考察幼儿园和家庭环境中的负面因素

目前关于数学学习困难儿童的研究大多关注其行为表现和认知特征,较少涉及其生活环境中的负面因素。本研究以一名大班数学学习困难儿童为研究对象,通过对儿童本人及老师、父母和同伴的访谈以及对儿童日常活动的观察,对其生活环境中的负面因素进行分析,为认识早期数学学习困难儿童的发生、形成和持续的原因提供了一个生态视角。研究结果表明,数学学习困难儿童在师幼交互、同伴友谊、家庭环境、父母教育方法、亲子关系等诸多方面有负面经历,而这些经历直接或间接地影响了儿童的数学学习。     

自主学习模式下高校教师的自我能力发展研究

在高校教育所提倡的＂自主学习＂模式中,教师教育观念的转变更新和自我能力的提高尤为重要,只有教师具有新的教学观念和出色能力,才能在教学中不断进行改革和创新,最终培养出新世纪所需要的创造性、自主型、多元化人才。     

Comparing active delay and procrastination from a self-regulated learning perspective

Researchers have proposed that the act of postponing academic work may be divided into a traditional definition of procrastination, viewed as maladaptive, and adaptive forms of delay. Adaptive forms of delay may be more consistent with certain facets of self-regulated learning. The current study investigated this issue by examining whether the relations between aspects of self-regulated learning and active delay may be distinct from the relations these aspects of self-regulated learning have with procrastination. Among 206 undergraduates, procrastination was positively predicted by mastery-avoidance goals and negatively by metacognitive strategy usage, whereas active delay was negatively predicted by avoidance goals and positively by self-efficacy. Furthermore, students who reported higher levels of active delay also received better grades. These findings provide support that active delay is a distinct form of delay from procrastination that may be more positive due to its associations with some adaptive self-regulatory processes and academic achievement.     

Teaching about the importance of trees: a study with young children

This paper reports on a study undertaken with the primary aim of investigating the effect of the storytelling teaching approach on kindergarten children's retention of ideas about the importance of trees. The study also assessed the effect of storytelling on children's intention to participate in a tree planting activity that they had to select from a list of activities. The story that was created included such elements as binary opposites, mental images, mystery, and wonder, according to Kieran Egan's theory. The study utilized a two‐group design, was conducted in three phases (pre‐test, intervention, and post‐test), lasted 11 weeks, and its results provide evidence of the effectiveness of the storytelling approach when compared with the traditional method of expository teaching complemented with visual images (pictures) of trees and their importance to human beings. The pedagogical appropriateness of the story, which was based upon the binary pair of opposites ‘security–insecurity’, is also discussed in the paper.     

Video diaries: a tool to investigate sustainability-related learning in threshold spaces

This paper takes as a case study an undergraduate field class from a UK university to rural Uganda. It describes and evaluates the use of video diaries as a tool for investigating the process of transformative learning in the context of education for sustainability. The applicability of threshold concept theory to this learning is investigated. Results show the video diary technique to be much more successful in capturing the development of student learning than written diaries. Despite some practical difficulties, rich data were generated. Analysis demonstrated that learning met three of the five criteria for threshold concepts: the learning was transformative, integrative and troublesome. Further research could test whether the learning in this case study met the threshold concept criterion of irreversibility. Further elaboration of the theoretical relationship between threshold concepts, transformative learning and education for sustainability is also needed. It is concluded that the video diary method is potentially transferable to other educational research contexts and may be particularly suitable for researching learning in threshold spaces.