虚拟课堂中的教与学(英文)

Teaching and Learning in the Virtual Classroom

虚拟教室是近年来西方国家十分盛行、我国教育家跃跃欲试的一种革新式教学模式。简单地说,虚拟教室就是指网上教学。说得更具体、更专业一点,虚拟教室就是指在互联网上实现的以计算机为媒介的远程教学环境。在这个环境里,教师可以在家中向远隔千里的学生讲授各种各样的知识,学生可以不受时空的限制在任何时候和任何地点选择自己学习的内容和速度。本文主要论述了虚拟教室的定义,组成虚拟教室的四大要素——学生、教师、课程和技术,以及这四大要素应具备的条件。

The virtual classroom is an innovative teaching mode,which has been very popular in the western countries in recent years and which the educators in our country have been eager to experiment with.Simply defined,the virtual classroom refers to courses offered via the Internet.To he more exact and technical,it is a teaching and learning environment located within a computer-mediated communication system.This paper deals with the definition of the virtual classroom and its main components such as the students,the instructor,the curriculum and the technology.