Optimising the blended learning environment: the Arab Open University experience

This paper will offer some insights into possible ways to optimise the blended learning environment based on experience with this modality of teaching at Arab Open University/Jordan branch and also by reflecting upon the results of several meta-analytical studies, which have shown blended learning environments to be more effective than their face to face and online only counterparts. Three key elements will be presented as important ways for improving the blended learning environment: forging genuine collaborative partnerships between institutions in terms of the team-writing of Open and Distance Learning (ODL) material, adopting a more theoretically based instructional approach, such as the cognitive apprenticeship (CA) model, which emphasises making thinking visible and developing a comprehensive understanding of blended education in order to help students achieve their educational goals.     

Teachers ‘liking’ their work? Exploring the realities of teacher Facebook groups

Social media are now an important aspect of the professional lives of school teachers. This paper explores the growing use of mass ‘teacher groups’ and ‘teacher communities’ on social media platforms such as Facebook. While these online communities are often welcomed as a means of professional learning and support, the paper considers the extent to which Facebook groups also expose teachers to some of the less beneficial aspects of social media, such as various forms of ‘digital labour’, commercialisation of exchanges and predominance of individualised reputation‐driven behaviours. Drawing on a detailed examination of a Swedish teacher Facebook group of over 13,000 members, the paper first addresses aspects of the online community that could be seen as professionally beneficial and/or valuable—particularly in terms of information exchange and social support. Yet while perceived by participants as a relatively beneficial and uncontroversial aspect of their working lives, the research also points to characteristics of the Facebook group that constituted disadvantaging, exploitative and/or disempowering forms of technological engagement. In these terms, the paper highlights tensions between what appears to ‘work’ for individual teachers in the short term and likely longer‐term implications that these practices might have for diminished professionalism and expertise of teachers.     

基于在线开放课程的大学英语教学模式在听障全纳学生中的应用

在"互联网+"的时代,在听障全纳专业大学生的大学英语教学过程中引入基于在线开放课程的教学模式具有重要的理论和现实意义。本论文是基于在线开放课程的大学英语教学模式在听障全纳学生中的课堂教学实践。实践表明,引入基于在线开放课程的教学模式后,提高了听障全纳学生学习的主动性,增加了教师的教学密度,使学生可以进行个性化学习,学生英语成绩显著提高,四六级通过率也大幅上升。在线开放课程在听障全纳学生的大学英语教学中的应用初见成效。     

本科生全程导师制培养模式实践与思考——以遵义医科大学应用心理学为例

本文总结了遵义医学院应用心理学专业全面开展本科生全程导师制两年来的经验,并在此基础上作了进一步的思考。该专业经过本科全程导师制的推行,不仅有力地巩固和拓展了课堂教学的效果,而且经由师生充分互动激发了师生的更大的潜能。在开展各种形式的常规化活动的基础上,学生的专业技能、综合素养得到切实的促进和提升,也产生了包括学术作品在内的多方面的培养成果。与此同时,导师制也反过来促进了导师的成长、为专业发展提供了优质的师资保证。经验提示,各专业开展导师制需要一定的条件和保障机制,例如师生比例、学校政策环境等。如何凝聚专业团队的共识、建立日常运行机制并与绩效考核合理挂钩是重点需要解决的问题。     

在线教学效果评价及质量保障体系建设

2020年疫情背景下教育部停课不停学的方案以多元化在线教学的形式实施.大规模在线教学同时启动对我国在线教学质量保障提出新的挑战,如何保障效果并持续提高在线教学质量成为社会关注的焦点问题.基于在线教学实施效果及质量保障策略的分析,参照《欧洲在线教学质量评价标准框架》,为保障在线教学效果提出以下建议:国家建立在线教学质量标...     

Interactional power and support in digital inclusion of an adult with intellectual disabilities: a case study analysis

Digital inclusion of people with intellectual disabilities is not commensurate with those without disabilities. Societal, political, financial, individual and interpersonal barriers help explain this disparity. Caregivers can act as both support and gatekeeper to internet access and use by adults with intellectual disabilities. This study investigated micro-level interpersonal factors influencing access and use of the internet by an adult with intellectual disabilities to explore the balance and interplay of power and support around the processes of digital inclusion and online risk taking. Taking a case study approach, perspectives of three key stakeholders were gathered via interviews: the person with intellectual disabilities, his mother and a paid support worker. Perspectives and experiences were contrasted using systemic functional linguistic analysis of discourse to explore the ways power and support were represented in the language of negotiated digital inclusion. Dynamics between the parent and person with intellectual disabilities and between the parent and paid staff clearly influenced processes of digital inclusion and were affected by varying priorities, positions and perceptions of power to allow, disallow and monitor access and use of the internet. These had the power to shape and drive internet access. Language choices by the person with intellectual disabilities showed that he was not fully aware of the risks involved in engaging with certain aspects of digital inclusion but how he spoke about the internet indicated some autonomy in technology use. Supporting the development of digital competence, confidence and resilience in people with learning disabilities should be combined with support to increase self-awareness regarding digital risk. Those supporting people with intellectual disabilities towards digital inclusion need additional guidance on how to do this effectively for the people they support.     

高职院校实施在线教学的推进机制研究

高职院校按照教育部"停课不停学"的要求在2020年春季学期全面转向在线教学.通过采用质性研究的文本分析方法,对10所高职院校在线教学实施方案或在线教学质量报告等文本,进行了在线教学推进机制的编码分析.研究发现:疫情防控期间高职院校坚持育人理念,确保在线教学有序开展,但对今后在线教学定位与发展方向还不明确;及时出台了教学调整方案,发布组织管理文件,制订课程规范标准,精心组织在线教学工作,但教师在线教学的激励政策还不完善;通过新增在线教学机构、建立协同工作机制统一协调推进在线教学,但支持长期信息化教学改革的机构及工作机制尚待构建.根据高职院校在疫情防控期间开展在线教学的状况分析,从理念与规划、制度与政策、组织与机构三个方面构建了高职院校常态化实施在线教学的推进机制框架,为高职院校在信息时代深化教学改革,推动信息技术与教育教学深度融合提出了建议.     

开放教育小专业导师制的探索与实践

近年来,开放教育小专业日益增多,生源结构日趋复杂、个性差异增大,传统的教学模式已不能满足小专业教学管理的需要,因此有必要创新教育教学管理模式,引入导师制就更具有现实的迫切性和必要性。本文在阐述导师制内涵的基础上,对如何构建行之有效的导师制模式提出了个人的设想,并结合自身工作的实践进行了探讨。     

网络课程类别分析——基于互联网教育传播模型的分析视角

美国传播学者尼尔·伯兹曼认为,课程就是一个信息传播系统,因此,可以从教育传播模型的视角分析不同网络课程之间的差异。然而,传统的教育传播四要素模型在解释网络教育时存在很多缺陷。将德国学者托马斯·赫尔斯曼提出的ICT框架和教育传播四要素模型相结合。构建出一个包含五个要素的互联网教育传播模型。利用互联网教育传播模型分析当下几种主要的网络课程。常见的网络课程可以分为I类、C类、I＋C等三种主要类型;教学活动是影响学习者参与、影响网络教学质量的核心要素;由于班额和教师投入的差异．C类和I＋C类网络课程还可以进一步细分为一系列亚类,教学质量也有很大的差异。     

域出版的发展瓶颈及网刊转型升级的再思考

中国的综合性学术期刊在其整个发展过程中从未像最近20年来如此引起社会各界的高度关注。对于综合性学术期刊该走向何方,学界及期刊界同仁意见纷呈,各执一词。唯有贴近并尊重学术期刊自身发展特点及规律,着眼于世界学术期刊发展大势之下的建设性改革意见,才有助于学术期刊尤其是综合性大学学报的健康发展,也才有助于推动我国学术研究朝健康、良性的方向前行。在网刊的发展及其转型升级过程中,域出版理念的提出及实施高屋建瓴。但是,在其整个推进过程中也呈现出夹缝性存在的特征。企业的经济效益与学术公益性之间的根本性冲突将域出版扼杀于摇篮中。基于此,网刊的转型升级成为所有期刊人必须面对且深入思考的话题。