Statistical Analysis of Students’Learning Effectiveness in Online Courses Offered by British Partners in China-UK Joint Education Program

In the context of internationalization,China-UK Joint Education Programs are receiving increasing attention from universities.Based on the difficulties faced in China-UK Joint Education Program,this paper adopts a questionnaire survey method to study the learning effectiveness of students majoring in digital media technology in the China-UK Joint Education Program at Guangxi University of Finance and Economics,focusing on four aspects:learning materials,learning content,teacher conditions,and student learning outcomes.The research analysis in this paper not only provides strong support for the construction of China-UK Joint Education Program but also offers references for other China-UK Joint Education Programs.

No More Excuses - Personality Traits and Academic Dishonesty in Online Courses

Academic dishonesty is a disturbing issue in higher education that has been worsening over the years, especially with the appearance of the internet and the e-learning education. This new technology exposes students to the opportunity of using online bank exams and term papers and increases their tendency to cheat. This study investigates student academic dishonesty in the context of traditional and distance-learning courses in higher education. Data from 1,365 students enrolled in academic institutes in the U.S.A and Israel were surveyed to assess their personality and their willingness to commit various acts of academic misconduct. The findings indicate that in both countries dishonest behaviors are greater in face-to-face courses than in online courses. In addition, both American and Israeli students identified with the personality trait of Agreeableness showed a negative correlation with academic dishonesty. Furthermore, Israeli students identified with the personality traits of Conscientiousness and Emotional Stability demonstrated a negative correlation with academic dishonesty. In contrast, the personality trait of Extraversion among American students was found in a positive correlation with academic misconduct. Implications for further research are discussed.

The Impact of Online Courses towards Students in Autonomous Learning Based on New Media Technologies

In the 21st century,the rapid development of online technology has dramatically transformed people’s way of lives.The emergence of high-tech products has also boosted modern education to embrace informationization and virtualization.With the promotion and development of online courses,autonomous learning is now emerging among students in colleges and universities.If they want to learn relevant professional knowledge,they could use networking and information technology with relevant devices.This learning method could not only impact traditional education but also facilitate students to explore new ways to learn autonomously.This paper is to discuss the impact of online courses towards students in autonomous learning by analyzing its current learning situation,the feature of this new form and its effects towards students.

Digital resources for nursing education:Open courseware and massive open online courses

Open Courseware(OCW)and massive open online courses(MOOCs)are teaching and learning resources that are easily accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.OCW is digitally published learning content including full and partial courses(syllabi,outlines,lectures in pdf or video,slides,reference lists,etc.),simulations,animations,tutorials,drills and practices,modules,podcasts,case studies,and quizzes.This content is free and can be adopted or adapted to the user's needs.MOOCs are online learning experiences taught by university professors using conventional educational tools including video lectures,interactive modules,assignments,study materials,discussion boards,quizzes and tests.MOOCs are offered free or at low cost for personal and professional learning,and as a supplement to classroom teaching.Many MOOCs and OCW focus on topics of interest to nursing,particularly to nurse educators.This article provides the reader with a brief history of the development of OCW and MOOCs,conceptual descriptions,and guidance about how to access and use these new online resources.

Bioengineering Downstream Technology Online Open Course Drives SPOC Hybrid Teaching Reform Based on Ideological and Political Education

In the context of emerging engineering disciplines,a hybrid teaching reform for the Bioengineering Downstream Technology course,based on ideological and political education and online open courses,is being carried out.This reform focuses on aspects such as“building a professional teacher team for ideological and political education,scientifically designing the ideological and political teaching system,innovating classroom teaching methods,and improving both formative and summative evaluation systems.”The“Craftsmanship in Education and Cultivating Soul and Roots”small private online course hybrid teaching reform for the Bioengineering Downstream Technology online open course provides a replicable model for the comprehensive implementation of ideological and political education in engineering courses and offers a reference for advancing ideological and political education and hybrid teaching reform in new engineering disciplines.

Application of Cooperative Learning and Flipped Classrooms in University Basketball Courses in China

This study investigates the application of the teaching model combining cooperative learning and flipped classrooms in university basketball courses in China.By analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of the traditional basketball teaching model and students’satisfaction with the course,the necessity of implementing cooperative learning and flipped classrooms is proposed.The study planned in detail the implementation strategies before class,in the classroom,and after class,and compared them with the control group through an experimental design.The experimental results showed that the new teaching mode demonstrated significant advantages in terms of learning outcomes,student satisfaction,and teacher evaluation.This study provides a valuable reference for the future reform of the physical education curriculum.

Analyzing the Design and Promotion of Ideological and Political Content in Online Finance and Economics Courses

In the context of the new media age,the emergence and development of finance and economics courses along with online course resources have greatly enriched the presentation of teaching resources in colleges and universities.However,subjected to the flawed design and poor promotion of ideological and political contents,which are less popular,online finance and economics courses often do not reflect the meaning well or maximize the application of the courses’ideological and political reform.This paper explores the dilemma and reasons for the promotion of the courses’ideological and political content,in hope to provide suggestions for the design and promotion of ideological and political content in online finance and economics courses in colleges and universities.

Research and Practice of the “Independence + Integration” Moral and Self-cultivation Teaching Method for Online Specialized Courses

In the context of the COVID-19 outbreak,online teaching has spread rapidly.However,the existing research on moral and self-cultivation teaching methods for online courses remains inadequate.This paper proposes an“independence+integration”moral and self-cultivation teaching method for online courses.The method divides the targets of moral and self-cultivation teaching into independent and integrated ones,and fits them both explicitly and implicitly into the online teaching of specialized courses in higher education.When this method was employed to teach engineering mechanics to industrial design students at a college in China,it effectively increased the students’acceptance of online courses as well as their understanding of moral and self-cultivation knowledge and the course itself,and improved the quality of online teaching.The method provides a new way of thinking about online moral and self-cultivation teaching.

An Ensemble Learning Model for Early Dropout Prediction of MOOC Courses

Massive open online courses(MOOCs)have become a way of online learning across the world in the past few years.However,the extremely high dropout rate has brought many challenges to the development of online learning.Most of the current methods have low accuracy and poor generalization ability when dealing with high-dimensional dropout features.They focus on the analysis of the learning score and check result of online course,but neglect the phased student behaviors.Besides,the status of student participation at a given moment is necessarily impacted by the prior status of learning.To address these issues,this paper has proposed an ensemble learning model for early dropout prediction(ELM-EDP)that integrates attention-based document representation as a vector(A-Doc2vec),feature learning of course difficulty,and weighted soft voting ensemble with heterogeneous classifiers(WSV-HC).First,A-Doc2vec is proposed to learn sequence features of student behaviors of watching lecture videos and completing course assignments.It also captures the relationship between courses and videos.Then,a feature learning method is proposed to reduce the interference caused by the differences of course difficulty on the dropout prediction.Finally,WSV-HC is proposed to highlight the benefits of integration strategies of boosting and bagging.Experiments on the MOOCCube2020 dataset show that the high accuracy of our ELM-EDP has better results on Accuracy,Precision,Recall,and F1.

A Construction Method of Online Course Portrait Based on Feature Engineering

With the emergence of massive online courses,how to evaluate the quality of courses with different qualities to improve the discrimination between courses and recommend personalized online course learning resources for learners needs to be evaluated from all aspects.In this paper,a method of constructing an online course portrait based on feature engineering is proposed.Firstly,the framework of online course portrait is established,the related features of the portrait are extracted by feature engineering method,and then the indicator weights of the portrait are calculated by entropy weight method.Finally,experiments are designed to evaluate the performance of the algorithms,and an example of the course portrait is given.

Current Trends in Online Programming Languages Learning Tools: A Systematic Literature Review

Students face difficulties in programming languages learning (PLL) which encourages many scholars to investigate the factors behind that. Although there a number of positive and negative factors found to be effective in PLL procedure, utilising online tools in PLL were recognized as a positive recommended means. This motivates many researchers to provide solutions and proposals which result in a number of choices and options. However, categorising those efforts and showing what has been done, would provide a better and clear image for future studies. Therefore, this paper aims to conduct a systematic literature review to show what studies have been done and then categorise them based on the type of online tools and the aims of the research. The study follows Kitchenham and Charters guidelines for writing SLR (Systematic Literature Review). The search result reached 1390 publications between 2013-09/2018. After the filtration which has been done through selected criteria, 160 publications were found to be adequate to answer the review questions. The main results of this systematic review are categorizing the aims of the studies in online PLL tools, classifying the tools and finding the current trends of the online PLL tools.

Application of Multimodal Discourse Theory and Media Technology in Foreign Language Online Teaching

It is based on multimodal discourse theory,with the help of a questionnaire survey,to study the multimodal choice of online courses and its dominant factors under the condition of virtual technology.It puts forward targeted implementation suggestions for online teaching and providings references for the rapid deployment and implementation of online teaching in domestic colleges and universities.

An Online English Course Teaching Model Based on Scene Simulation

In order to improve the English online courses teaching scene adaptability, optimize the online English teaching mode, improve the quality of English teaching, an English online course teaching platform is proposed based on scene simulation. B/S client communication protocol is constructed in network transport layer, and the scene simulation model of English Online Course Teaching is established, online English teaching platform designed in this paper is constructed based on the sensing layer, network layer and application layer. A data processing center is constructed in the B/S structure and the network environment, Open Core kernel is used to realize the optimization of teaching model of English online courses, improve the teaching platform of online courses, and improve the scene adaptation ability. The test results show that the platform for online English teaching has better independent learning ability, the effectiveness of online English course teaching is better, test objects have higher satisfaction with English Online Course Teaching.

A Survey of Online Course Recommendation Techniques

With the development of information technology, online learning has gradually become an indispensable way of knowledge acquisition. However, with the increasing amount of data information, it is increasingly difficult for people to find appropriate learning materials from a large number of educational resources. The recommender system has been widely used in various Internet applications due to its high efficiency in filtering information, helping users to quickly find personalized resources from thousands of information, thereby alleviating the problem of information overload. In addition, due to its great use value, many new researches have been proposed in the field of recommender systems in recent years, but there are not many works on online course recommendation at present. Therefore, this paper aims to sort out the existing cutting-edge recommendation algorithms and the work related to online course recommendation, so as to provide a comprehensive overview of the online course recommender system. Specifically, we will first introduce the main technologies and representative work used in the online course recommender system, explain the advantages and disadvantages of various technologies, and finally discuss the future research direction of the online course recommender system.

Digital Knowledge Resources Sharing Through Online Distance Education Course

Since the electronic resources and Internet Web sites became popular, distance education courses offered via the Internet could play an important role in providing global digital resources and teaching the knowledge of international library and information standards for bibliographic databases with electronic and web resources.This paper uses the example of the author's new online course: ILS 608 Cataloging and Development of a Digital Union Catalog for Ancient Chinese Books to demonstrate the global re...

Research on the Marketing Strategy of Online Education - Taking New Oriental as an Example

In recent years,with the development of society and the progress of science and technology,online learning has penetrated into people’s daily life,and people’s demand for high-quality curriculum products is more and more strong.From a macro perspective,the continuous growth of national financial investment in education,the continuous upgrading of China’s consumption structure,the development of 5G technology and the popularization of AI intelligence make online teaching less limited.The online education industry is showing an explosive growth trend.More and more online education institutions are listed for financing,and the market value is soaring.However,in 2019,except for GSX,the latest online learning platforms such as New Oriental,Speak English Fluently and Sunlands,have been in a state of loss.Most of these agencies seize the market by increasing advertising investment,but at the same time,they also bring huge marketing costs,which affect the financial performance of the company.With the enhancement of Matthew effect,largescale educational institutions occupy a large market through free classes and low-price classes,while small and medium-sized institutions with weak capital strength are often unable to afford high sales costs,facing the risk of capital chain rupture.Taking new Oriental online as an example,this paper analyzes the problems existing in the marketing strategies of online education institutions.It also puts forward suggestions on four aspects,which are target market,differentiated value,marketing mix and marketing mode,so as to make sure that online education institutions can control marketing expenses and achieve profits by improving course quality,expanding marketing channels and implementing precise positioning.

The Use of Modern Digital Technologies in Engineering Education on the Example of the Online Course «Engineering Mechanics»

The article discusses the use of modern digital technologies in engineering education on the example of the online course"Engineering mechanics".The course was the first online course of Ural Federal University,placed on the international MOOCplatform.The course consists of original digital content:lecture notes,database of training tasks(simulators),test and homework,practical examples and demonstration video materials and other training materials.The main result of the work is a radical change in the content and form of presentation of traditional material on mechanics.The unity of a bright visual image,a strict mathematical model and rational solution of examples and problems is a new approach to achieving high learning outcomes for students.

The Relationship Between Online Participation and Academic Achievements for Students Majoring in Business English

The quantitative method here was applied to study the correlation between online participation and academic achievement.The online participation in this study was represented by the frequency with which students raise their hands in four business English reading classes over a single semester,while academic achievements were measured by the scores of the students in the final examination.The results showed a moderate positive correlation in two of the four classes of students between their online participation and scores on class level.Otherwise,there was no correlation in the other two classes.Since there was no strong correlation between online participation and comprehensive performance in this study,it can be inferred that online participation may not likely cause better comprehensive performance in the final examination.

Construction and Practice of Online Course Resources Based on Information Processing Theory:Taking“A Bite of Teochew Cuisine,”a Guangdong First-Class Course,as an Example

“Cantonese Cuisine Master”project is an important policy proposed by China to inherit Cantonese Cuisine culture,promote employment,and achieve targeted poverty reduction and rural revitalization.Confronted with the demands of more diverse education,it is an essential opportunity and task for the education system to consider how to construct high-quality online courses and pursue higher-quality“Cantonese Cuisine Master”projects in line with the new era.This paper,based on the theory of instructional media and information processing theory,will further clarify the demand,dilemma,and developing strategy of online course construction for culinary majors,and explore its construction and practice with the example of“A Bite of Teochew Cuisine,”a Guangdong first-class course.

The Implementation of ELTeach Online Course to Junior High School English Teachers in Yunnan

The paper gives an brief introduction of the ELTeach online course and the national teachers training program in Yunnan. It discusses the necessity and possibility to incorporate the course into the program. On the basis of the trainees' reflection, it further analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of the course, particularly the EFT and PK domains, for the professional development of Junior High School English teachers.