从加拿大的远程教育发展趋势看开放大学的文化使命(上)

On Open Educational Resources Development and Application:A Case Study of Open Learning Initiative(OLI) of Carnegie Mellon University

加拿大各开放大学在传播本国文明、打造覆盖世界各地的远程教育校园文化过程中,践行着其特定的文化使命。其主要表现是:在远程教育课程文化建设上,呈现出"本土化"、"技能化"、"民族化"的发展趋势,在校园文化的建设上显示出"全球化"、"殖民化"、"产业化"的发展趋势。其办学实践表明:只有立足发展课程文化,不断拓展校园文化空间,才能为开放大学成功担负远程教育文化传播使命,提供强有力的人文支撑。

Open educational resources(OER) expand access to education by providing learners,especially those who cannot benefit from traditional education opportunities,with high-quality learning materials.With Carnegie Mellon University's Open Learning Initiative(OLI) as an example,the article first analyzes the application of OER to meeting the learning needs of individual learners as well as OER's design and application models and features.It is argued that OER online courses can contribute to traditional classroom teaching and reshape the instructional model of higher education.The importance of teachers is also highlighted in OLI,in particular in terms of their facilitating roles in online courses.The article concludes that the design of online courses should be informed by cognitive science with multidiscipline perspectives and continuous course evaluation and feedback in order to ensure course quality.