This paper makes an Introduction of the advantages and the foreground of Distance Education developing in China,and also some problems we are facing. At last, it gives out a solution of Network Education Application i...This paper makes an Introduction of the advantages and the foreground of Distance Education developing in China,and also some problems we are facing. At last, it gives out a solution of Network Education Application in college English teaching. With the development of Internet and information technology, the intercourses between human beings are becoming more and more convenient. Distance education have appeared in educational area, which has greatly promoted the development of education. As a totally new mode of educating, distance education has improved the quality and efficiency of teaching. Moreover, it accelerated the development of social and lifelong education. The development of distance education is hard, but it has a brilliant future.展开更多
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 o...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...展开更多
The 1995 International Council of Distance Education(ICDE)In Blrmingham,Britain selected ten(llstance education mstltutlons with an enrollment of over 100,000Inthe world. Theyrespectively belong to China,阶ance...The 1995 International Council of Distance Education(ICDE)In Blrmingham,Britain selected ten(llstance education mstltutlons with an enrollment of over 100,000Inthe world. Theyrespectively belong to China,阶ance,India,Indonesia,展开更多
The advancement of human society and the development of economy and modern science and technologyhas shortenedthedlstancebetween us and confronted us with chilllenges and probkinB Ofthlltllallty Of Wb1Ch
This study applies augmented reality(AR)to design an experiment to explore the academic performance,motivation and cognitive load level of students in distance education when leaning about communications engineering c...This study applies augmented reality(AR)to design an experiment to explore the academic performance,motivation and cognitive load level of students in distance education when leaning about communications engineering courses.The samples were 62 distance education students,consisting of 42 part-time adult students from a school of network education and 20 full-time students form a university,all of whom studied remotely in the experimental course.The results show that augmented reality can help distance education students improve their academic performance.As for learning motivation,the enhancement effect is not significant.The study also found that the use of AR did not increase students'cognitive load as long as the guidance was appropriate.展开更多
Primary school internet plus education is also a new trend in the implementation of the English Teaching in the Internet plus.With the high attention of the party and the state on Rural Education in remote areas,the d...Primary school internet plus education is also a new trend in the implementation of the English Teaching in the Internet plus.With the high attention of the party and the state on Rural Education in remote areas,the distance education system under the background of Internet plus has been maturing.Therefore,this study aims to explore a new model for the implementation of primary English classroom teaching through the way of"Internet plus".New teaching methods,new teaching means,new positioning of teachers'role,new ways of teachers'interaction,new ways of learning and new ways of classroom evaluation.展开更多
In this paper we discuss the general understanding of distance education, and analyze the advantages and significance of distance education, especially in relation to the teacher education in Inner Mongolia. Reviewing...In this paper we discuss the general understanding of distance education, and analyze the advantages and significance of distance education, especially in relation to the teacher education in Inner Mongolia. Reviewing the current practice, we investigate some issues in the local context and give some practical suggestions in light of some external experience. It is believed that development of distance education will be the potential solution to the continuing professional education of school teachers.展开更多
The computer network technology and multi-media technology offer a new teaching mode for the distance education. Now there are still many problems in modern distance education such as weak generality, flexibility and ...The computer network technology and multi-media technology offer a new teaching mode for the distance education. Now there are still many problems in modern distance education such as weak generality, flexibility and intelligence, etc. This paper brought up a design mode of distance teaching platform based on Agent mechanism and the concrete implementation method through analyzing the characteristic and structure of Agent technology.展开更多
Objective:This study aimed to determine the predictive ability of instructors’online caring behaviors,online learning burnout,and satisfaction with online learning on nursing students’academic performance.Methods:Th...Objective:This study aimed to determine the predictive ability of instructors’online caring behaviors,online learning burnout,and satisfaction with online learning on nursing students’academic performance.Methods:This was a cross-sectional study employing the administration of online self-repor t measures among 606 undergraduate students in one large nursing school in the Philippines.Statistical analysis involved the use of descriptive statistics,Pearson’s r,and linear regression.Results:The mean scores in the instructors’online caring behaviors scale,online learning burnout scale,online learning satisfaction scale,and self-repor ted academic performance were 3.88±0.70,4.00±0.84,2.51±0.96,and 3.25±0.79 respectively.Satisfaction(β=0.216,P=0.000),burnout(β=0.-098,P=0.019),and instructors’caring behaviors(β=0.096,P=0.030)explained 11.7%of the variability in the students’academic performance.Conclusions:Instructors’caring behavior and levels of burnout and satisfaction are linked to students’academic success in the vir tual learning environment.This study calls for nursing instructors to be mindful of signs of burnout,employ proactive measures that promote satisfactory learning,and foster more caring behaviors in this time of global health crisis.展开更多
The COVID-19 has not only changed people’s life-style,but also has changed our teaching concepts and methods.It causes sudden transition from classroom teaching to virtual teaching and then hybrid teaching.This prese...The COVID-19 has not only changed people’s life-style,but also has changed our teaching concepts and methods.It causes sudden transition from classroom teaching to virtual teaching and then hybrid teaching.This presents a special challenge to language instruction which requires mutual communication between instructor and students as well as communication among students.First,by tracing the history of distance learning,this paper introduces the developmental stages of distance education,and the communication technology conditions behind them.Second,the background and current situation of Chinese language distance education is introduced.Third,after discussing the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning,the complementary relationship between virtual and face-to-face Chinese instruction,the ideal teaching mode and corresponding teaching strategies are discussed.展开更多
Mammary health is issue faced by public health nurses and the science follows new ways into this thematic area of learning course wares. The purpose of this study was to construct and to validate a distance course for...Mammary health is issue faced by public health nurses and the science follows new ways into this thematic area of learning course wares. The purpose of this study was to construct and to validate a distance course for mammary health promotion for nurses. Methodological proposal has been composed of five stages: 1) analysis and planning, 2) modeling, 3) implementation, 4) evaluation and maintenance and 5) distribution. A total of nine experts as research population were consulted who were expert judges of nursing, pedagogy and web designer, three of each specific area, which were included in the study. The variables that had concordance index of 50% were: graphic designer pages favors learning, the user has easy navigation, the learning of the student experience, the environment provides interdisciplinary, content is built on process rather than there is a unique sequence, allows access to the available environment and holds a discussion on the subject. The distance learning course is intended to broaden and to enrich the living spaces and construct their own knowledge, favors interactivity, communication, autonomy and cooperation between the participants and provides access to educational technologies.展开更多
In recent years,online education has grown rapidly and expanded globally.As an undergraduate student,the author took part in massive open online courses(MOOCs)as an elective.While enjoying the convenience of high-tech...In recent years,online education has grown rapidly and expanded globally.As an undergraduate student,the author took part in massive open online courses(MOOCs)as an elective.While enjoying the convenience of high-tech distance education,the author also became aware of its shortcomings.For instance,when students are confused about a certain topic,they are unable to clarify with their instructors in real time since most of the time,recorded instructional videos are used.Students also tend to listen passively during lessons,indicating that they may not absorb information or“positively reinforce”what they know or have learned.When discussing the characteristics of MOOCs,the author hopes to demonstrate how online education may influence traditional teaching and serves as an excellent complement to conventional classrooms.展开更多
BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)epidemic disrupted education systems by forcing systems to shift to emergency online leaning.Online learning satisfaction affects academic achievement.Many factors affe...BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)epidemic disrupted education systems by forcing systems to shift to emergency online leaning.Online learning satisfaction affects academic achievement.Many factors affect online learning satisfaction.However there is little study focused on personal characteristics,mental status,and coping style when college students participated in emergency online courses.regression analyses were performed to identify factors that affected online learning satisfaction.RESULTS Descriptive findings indicated that 62.9%(994/1580)of students were satisfied with online learning.Factors that had significant positive effects on online learning satisfaction were online learning at scheduled times,strong exercise intensity,good health,regular schedule,focusing on the epidemic less than one hour a day,and maintaining emotional stability.Positive coping styles were protective factors of online learning satisfaction.Risk factors for poor satisfaction were depression,neurasthenia,and negative coping style.CONCLUSION College students with different personal characteristics,mental status,and coping style exhibited different degrees of online learning satisfaction.Our findings provide reference for educators,psychologists,and school adminis-trators to conduct health education intervention of college students during emergency online learning.展开更多
Prior to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, distance education, a mode of education that allows teaching and learning to occur beyond the walls of traditional classrooms using electronic media and online delivery pr...Prior to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, distance education, a mode of education that allows teaching and learning to occur beyond the walls of traditional classrooms using electronic media and online delivery practices, was not widely embraced as a credible alternative mode of delivering education, especially in Africa. In education, the pandemic, and the measures to contain it, created a need for virtual learning/teaching and showcased the potential of distance education. This article explores the potential of distance education with an emphasis on the role played by COVID-19, the technologies employed, and the benefits, as well as how data stewardship can enhance distance education. It also describes how distance education can make learning opportunities available to the less privileged, geographically displaced, dropouts, housewives, and even workers, enabling them to partake in education while being engaged in other productive aspects of life. A case study is provided on the Dutch Organisation for Internationalisation in Education(NUFFIC) Digital Innovation Skills Hub(DISH) project, which is implemented via distance education and targeted towards marginalised individuals such as refugees and displaced persons in Ethiopia,Somalia, and other conflict zones, aiming to provide them with critical and soft skills for remote work for financial remuneration. This case study shows that distance education is the way forward in education today, as it has the capability to reach millions of learners simultaneously, educating, lifting people out of poverty, and increasing productivity and yields, while ensuring that the world is a better place for future generations.展开更多
Online education has attracted a large number of students in recent years, because it breaks through the limitations of time and space and makes high-quality education at your fingertips. The method of predicting stud...Online education has attracted a large number of students in recent years, because it breaks through the limitations of time and space and makes high-quality education at your fingertips. The method of predicting student performance is to analyze and predict the student’s final performance by collecting demographic data such as the student’s gender, age, and highest education level, and clickstream data generated when students interact with VLE in different types of specific courses, which are widely used in online education platforms. This article proposes a model to predict student performance via Attention-based Multi-layer LSTM (AML), which combines student demographic data and clickstream data for comprehensive analysis. We hope that we can obtain a higher prediction accuracy as soon as possible to provide timely intervention. The results show that the proposed model can improve the accuracy of 0.52% - 0.85% and the F1 score of 0.89% - 2.30% on the four-class classification task as well as the accuracy of 0.15% - 0.97% and the F1 score of 0.21% - 2.77% on the binary classification task from week 5 to week 25.展开更多
This survey study aims to investigate the perceptions learners have of the character-learning strategies they employ when taking a web-based course in Chinese.The seven Likert-scale statements are included in the ques...This survey study aims to investigate the perceptions learners have of the character-learning strategies they employ when taking a web-based course in Chinese.The seven Likert-scale statements are included in the questionnaire to examine learners’opinions on the three character-learning strategies that are widely used in traditional campus courses.A total of 65 students who completed the beginner level‘Chinese Characters’web-based course at a university in Sweden completed the survey.The results suggest that students in web-based courses consider these three strategies to be just as helpful and effective as campus students;moreover,the more orthodox strategy-rote learning-is found to be the most popular among distance students.Furthermore,findings of this study provide insight into the limitations and advantages associated with a web-based course,and also the possible effect learners’age and gender may have on learning strategy preferences.展开更多
We conduct a survival analysis for the viewing durations of massive open online courses.The hazard function of the empirical duration data presents as a bathtub curve with the Lindy effect in its tail.To understand th...We conduct a survival analysis for the viewing durations of massive open online courses.The hazard function of the empirical duration data presents as a bathtub curve with the Lindy effect in its tail.To understand the evolutionary mechanisms underlying these features,we categorize learners into two classes based on their different distributions of viewing durations,namely lognormal distribution and power law with exponential cutoff.Two random differential equations are provided to describe the growth patterns of viewing durations for the two classes respectively.The expected duration change rate of the learners featured by lognormal distribution is supposed to be dependent on their past duration,and that of the remainder of learners is supposed to be inversely proportional to time.Solutions to the equations predict the features of viewing duration distributions,and those of the hazard function.The equations also reveal the features of memory and memorylessness for the respective viewing behaviors of the two classes.展开更多
文摘This paper makes an Introduction of the advantages and the foreground of Distance Education developing in China,and also some problems we are facing. At last, it gives out a solution of Network Education Application in college English teaching. With the development of Internet and information technology, the intercourses between human beings are becoming more and more convenient. Distance education have appeared in educational area, which has greatly promoted the development of education. As a totally new mode of educating, distance education has improved the quality and efficiency of teaching. Moreover, it accelerated the development of social and lifelong education. The development of distance education is hard, but it has a brilliant future.
文摘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...
文摘The 1995 International Council of Distance Education(ICDE)In Blrmingham,Britain selected ten(llstance education mstltutlons with an enrollment of over 100,000Inthe world. Theyrespectively belong to China,阶ance,India,Indonesia,
文摘The advancement of human society and the development of economy and modern science and technologyhas shortenedthedlstancebetween us and confronted us with chilllenges and probkinB Ofthlltllallty Of Wb1Ch
文摘This study applies augmented reality(AR)to design an experiment to explore the academic performance,motivation and cognitive load level of students in distance education when leaning about communications engineering courses.The samples were 62 distance education students,consisting of 42 part-time adult students from a school of network education and 20 full-time students form a university,all of whom studied remotely in the experimental course.The results show that augmented reality can help distance education students improve their academic performance.As for learning motivation,the enhancement effect is not significant.The study also found that the use of AR did not increase students'cognitive load as long as the guidance was appropriate.
基金The Internet plus model primary exploration of the implementation of distance education in primary school English Classroom Teaching:a case study of Y primary school in a village of Longnan,Gansu,with the project number 2019KYZZ012086。
文摘Primary school internet plus education is also a new trend in the implementation of the English Teaching in the Internet plus.With the high attention of the party and the state on Rural Education in remote areas,the distance education system under the background of Internet plus has been maturing.Therefore,this study aims to explore a new model for the implementation of primary English classroom teaching through the way of"Internet plus".New teaching methods,new teaching means,new positioning of teachers'role,new ways of teachers'interaction,new ways of learning and new ways of classroom evaluation.
文摘In this paper we discuss the general understanding of distance education, and analyze the advantages and significance of distance education, especially in relation to the teacher education in Inner Mongolia. Reviewing the current practice, we investigate some issues in the local context and give some practical suggestions in light of some external experience. It is believed that development of distance education will be the potential solution to the continuing professional education of school teachers.
文摘The computer network technology and multi-media technology offer a new teaching mode for the distance education. Now there are still many problems in modern distance education such as weak generality, flexibility and intelligence, etc. This paper brought up a design mode of distance teaching platform based on Agent mechanism and the concrete implementation method through analyzing the characteristic and structure of Agent technology.
文摘Objective:This study aimed to determine the predictive ability of instructors’online caring behaviors,online learning burnout,and satisfaction with online learning on nursing students’academic performance.Methods:This was a cross-sectional study employing the administration of online self-repor t measures among 606 undergraduate students in one large nursing school in the Philippines.Statistical analysis involved the use of descriptive statistics,Pearson’s r,and linear regression.Results:The mean scores in the instructors’online caring behaviors scale,online learning burnout scale,online learning satisfaction scale,and self-repor ted academic performance were 3.88±0.70,4.00±0.84,2.51±0.96,and 3.25±0.79 respectively.Satisfaction(β=0.216,P=0.000),burnout(β=0.-098,P=0.019),and instructors’caring behaviors(β=0.096,P=0.030)explained 11.7%of the variability in the students’academic performance.Conclusions:Instructors’caring behavior and levels of burnout and satisfaction are linked to students’academic success in the vir tual learning environment.This study calls for nursing instructors to be mindful of signs of burnout,employ proactive measures that promote satisfactory learning,and foster more caring behaviors in this time of global health crisis.
文摘The COVID-19 has not only changed people’s life-style,but also has changed our teaching concepts and methods.It causes sudden transition from classroom teaching to virtual teaching and then hybrid teaching.This presents a special challenge to language instruction which requires mutual communication between instructor and students as well as communication among students.First,by tracing the history of distance learning,this paper introduces the developmental stages of distance education,and the communication technology conditions behind them.Second,the background and current situation of Chinese language distance education is introduced.Third,after discussing the advantages and disadvantages of distance learning,the complementary relationship between virtual and face-to-face Chinese instruction,the ideal teaching mode and corresponding teaching strategies are discussed.
文摘Mammary health is issue faced by public health nurses and the science follows new ways into this thematic area of learning course wares. The purpose of this study was to construct and to validate a distance course for mammary health promotion for nurses. Methodological proposal has been composed of five stages: 1) analysis and planning, 2) modeling, 3) implementation, 4) evaluation and maintenance and 5) distribution. A total of nine experts as research population were consulted who were expert judges of nursing, pedagogy and web designer, three of each specific area, which were included in the study. The variables that had concordance index of 50% were: graphic designer pages favors learning, the user has easy navigation, the learning of the student experience, the environment provides interdisciplinary, content is built on process rather than there is a unique sequence, allows access to the available environment and holds a discussion on the subject. The distance learning course is intended to broaden and to enrich the living spaces and construct their own knowledge, favors interactivity, communication, autonomy and cooperation between the participants and provides access to educational technologies.
文摘In recent years,online education has grown rapidly and expanded globally.As an undergraduate student,the author took part in massive open online courses(MOOCs)as an elective.While enjoying the convenience of high-tech distance education,the author also became aware of its shortcomings.For instance,when students are confused about a certain topic,they are unable to clarify with their instructors in real time since most of the time,recorded instructional videos are used.Students also tend to listen passively during lessons,indicating that they may not absorb information or“positively reinforce”what they know or have learned.When discussing the characteristics of MOOCs,the author hopes to demonstrate how online education may influence traditional teaching and serves as an excellent complement to conventional classrooms.
基金The study protocol was approved by the Ethics Committee of Hebei General University and complied strictly with ethical requirements.Ethics Review No.2020 scientific ethics No.30.
文摘BACKGROUND The coronavirus disease 2019(COVID-19)epidemic disrupted education systems by forcing systems to shift to emergency online leaning.Online learning satisfaction affects academic achievement.Many factors affect online learning satisfaction.However there is little study focused on personal characteristics,mental status,and coping style when college students participated in emergency online courses.regression analyses were performed to identify factors that affected online learning satisfaction.RESULTS Descriptive findings indicated that 62.9%(994/1580)of students were satisfied with online learning.Factors that had significant positive effects on online learning satisfaction were online learning at scheduled times,strong exercise intensity,good health,regular schedule,focusing on the epidemic less than one hour a day,and maintaining emotional stability.Positive coping styles were protective factors of online learning satisfaction.Risk factors for poor satisfaction were depression,neurasthenia,and negative coping style.CONCLUSION College students with different personal characteristics,mental status,and coping style exhibited different degrees of online learning satisfaction.Our findings provide reference for educators,psychologists,and school adminis-trators to conduct health education intervention of college students during emergency online learning.
基金VODAN-Africathe Philips Foundation+2 种基金the Dutch Development Bank FMOCORDAIDthe GO FAIR Foundation for supporting this research
文摘Prior to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic, distance education, a mode of education that allows teaching and learning to occur beyond the walls of traditional classrooms using electronic media and online delivery practices, was not widely embraced as a credible alternative mode of delivering education, especially in Africa. In education, the pandemic, and the measures to contain it, created a need for virtual learning/teaching and showcased the potential of distance education. This article explores the potential of distance education with an emphasis on the role played by COVID-19, the technologies employed, and the benefits, as well as how data stewardship can enhance distance education. It also describes how distance education can make learning opportunities available to the less privileged, geographically displaced, dropouts, housewives, and even workers, enabling them to partake in education while being engaged in other productive aspects of life. A case study is provided on the Dutch Organisation for Internationalisation in Education(NUFFIC) Digital Innovation Skills Hub(DISH) project, which is implemented via distance education and targeted towards marginalised individuals such as refugees and displaced persons in Ethiopia,Somalia, and other conflict zones, aiming to provide them with critical and soft skills for remote work for financial remuneration. This case study shows that distance education is the way forward in education today, as it has the capability to reach millions of learners simultaneously, educating, lifting people out of poverty, and increasing productivity and yields, while ensuring that the world is a better place for future generations.
文摘Online education has attracted a large number of students in recent years, because it breaks through the limitations of time and space and makes high-quality education at your fingertips. The method of predicting student performance is to analyze and predict the student’s final performance by collecting demographic data such as the student’s gender, age, and highest education level, and clickstream data generated when students interact with VLE in different types of specific courses, which are widely used in online education platforms. This article proposes a model to predict student performance via Attention-based Multi-layer LSTM (AML), which combines student demographic data and clickstream data for comprehensive analysis. We hope that we can obtain a higher prediction accuracy as soon as possible to provide timely intervention. The results show that the proposed model can improve the accuracy of 0.52% - 0.85% and the F1 score of 0.89% - 2.30% on the four-class classification task as well as the accuracy of 0.15% - 0.97% and the F1 score of 0.21% - 2.77% on the binary classification task from week 5 to week 25.
文摘This survey study aims to investigate the perceptions learners have of the character-learning strategies they employ when taking a web-based course in Chinese.The seven Likert-scale statements are included in the questionnaire to examine learners’opinions on the three character-learning strategies that are widely used in traditional campus courses.A total of 65 students who completed the beginner level‘Chinese Characters’web-based course at a university in Sweden completed the survey.The results suggest that students in web-based courses consider these three strategies to be just as helpful and effective as campus students;moreover,the more orthodox strategy-rote learning-is found to be the most popular among distance students.Furthermore,findings of this study provide insight into the limitations and advantages associated with a web-based course,and also the possible effect learners’age and gender may have on learning strategy preferences.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61773020)the National Education Science Foundation of China (No. DIA180383)
文摘We conduct a survival analysis for the viewing durations of massive open online courses.The hazard function of the empirical duration data presents as a bathtub curve with the Lindy effect in its tail.To understand the evolutionary mechanisms underlying these features,we categorize learners into two classes based on their different distributions of viewing durations,namely lognormal distribution and power law with exponential cutoff.Two random differential equations are provided to describe the growth patterns of viewing durations for the two classes respectively.The expected duration change rate of the learners featured by lognormal distribution is supposed to be dependent on their past duration,and that of the remainder of learners is supposed to be inversely proportional to time.Solutions to the equations predict the features of viewing duration distributions,and those of the hazard function.The equations also reveal the features of memory and memorylessness for the respective viewing behaviors of the two classes.