沉浸理论研究现状及其对远程教育的启示

The Status of the Research of Flow Theory and Its Inspiration to Distance Education

当前远程教育中已形成的"自主和独立学习的理论"、"工业化理论"及"交互作用与通信理论"等基础理论关注的是整个远程教育外显的过程或模式,对于远程学习者在远程学习过程中的内部心理过程缺乏关注。而远程学习过程中的沉浸体验对于远程学习至关重要,因此教育游戏成为了目前的热点研究课题。笔者认为沉浸理论应当成为远程教育的理论基础之一,并在此基础上逐渐形成远程教育自身有关内部学习过程的基础理论。

In the field of distance education present-day,there have been three basic theories: Theory of Autonomy and Independence,Industrialization of Teaching and Learning and Theory of Interaction and Communication,all of which focus their attention on the extrinsic process or model of distance education while ignoring learners' inner psychological experiences during the process of their learning.However,the immersion experience in this process is also important to distance learning.That is why educational games have been becoming a very popular research theme these days.Therefore it is believed that Flow Theory can lay a foundation for the development of inner learning process studies,based on which distance learning theory will be improved.