摘要
琼斯国际大学通过了地区的鉴定认可——这是第一所通过美国地区鉴定机构鉴定认可的完全虚拟大学——从而在学术界引发了热烈的讨论。他们把对有关学术人员与教师角色的变化的关注用来作为反对人们狂热追逐新教学机会的依据这篇论文以琼斯国际大学五年来活生生的在线教学的实际例证为基础 ,来检验当我们决定采用通过计算机网络实施教育活动时 ,教学活动本身、教师的角色。
Regional accreditation of Jones International University (JIU) the first entirely virtual university accredited by the US regional accreditation agency sparked heated discussions in academic circles. Concerns about changing roles of academia and faculty were countered with unbinding enthusiasm for the new teaching opportunities. This presentation uses notes form the 5 years of active online teaching at Jones International University as a base to examine what is changing in teaching, faculty roles, student responsibilities and collegiate culture when we decide to deliver education through a network of computers. I will focus on the following four questions. 1. How our teaching practices change when we teach online? 2. How does the role of faculty change in online environments? 3. How do the students' responsibilities change in online environments? 4. How do we change our collegiate culture by creating online universities? Implementing change to important social concepts such as education--requires careful consideration. Careful consideration means that we will pay attention to all, desirable and undesirable, aspects of the change we are implementing. Online learning and teaching already is a permanent fducational landscapes. The time to ask difficult questions is now. Future of education may depend on how well we think through our answers.
出处
《开放教育研究》
2001年第4期17-21,共5页
Open Education Research
