| Educational resources' digitization is composed of three levels of activities:first, the basic technical level,which constructs digitized platform of educational resource and protects channels of modern distance education relying on digitized "hardware" and "software" technology;second,the level of content,which integrates instructors and learners' spiritual products into "educational software" with "digital reproduction", and provides,it to instructors and learners via channels such as modern distance education;third,the level of application,which uses digtalized "hardware" and "software" to create digitized educational environment to satisfies instructors and learners' needs of interactions,learning contents,etc.,with the guidance of "underware" (educational thought).The value orientation of educational resources' digitization is the logic origin of the advancement and development of three levels' activities above.Many practical cases show that the activities of educational resources' digitization do imply different value orientation from the very beginning.From their specific cultural background and personal understanding of education,people choose or intend to certain value goal. Once established,it naturally affects the layout and technical route of educational resources' digitization.Peoples' different value orientation results in collision and conflict of every level of different "recognition" or "attitude".This happens in the process of educational resources' digitalization.All these make us think seriously about the following questions:whether digital technology could lead or determine the development of education? What is the cause of value conflict in practice? How to orientate the value of educational resources' digitization? The answers are based on:in the levels of technology realization,content providing and application of educational resources' digitization,people should take promoting human beings' development with sincerity as value orientation;and this orientation not only pursues digital education which can realize the specificity of life but also devotes to protect and inherit the local cultural resources,which is "born and brought up here".By the means of literature study,case analysis and online investigation,the study reviews the opinions,which people have proposed on the technical level,content providing and sharing application of educational resources' digitization.The digital integration of educational resources,has already experienced the early static educational resources database to the digitalized platform of dynamic interacting;the development of digitized technology has also provided the possibility of human-centered assembly and real-time interaction;with the claims of "integrable ware" and "thematic resource unit" on resources rearrangement,it also shows the researchers have paid more and more attention to the leading role of educational thought.However,the conflict between "technical possibility" and "the reality of content assembly" is obvious. According to the sampling investigation of network education database,it indicates that the content assembly of multi-platform of educational resources' digitization is taking the teaching service as orientation,and the so-called high quality educational resources that assembled from varied digitalized platform,is on a larger proportion of examination service;however,by analyzing the recognition and definition of "high quality educational resources",we can find that it is prevailing in practice,to judge of "high quality" with the quantity of educational resources,school reputation and examination results.While on the level of digitized educational resources sharing and applying,some people think that educational and economic distance between the eastern and the western in China can be shortened by popularizing internet,while some people think that the educational quality in under developed areas can be improved by educational contents' opening and sharing.The study roots in the practical educational issues,and field investigation becomes an important method.In recent years,based on the standpoint that digitalized technique is the opportunity of educational development or the standpoint that the application of high-quality educational resource can improve education level in west China,many projects of modern distance education are established for improving the construction and application of educational resources' digitization."Sky nets and underground nets" bring the vast west China into educational digitalized orbit.The popularization of its "hardware" and "software" is enhanced along with the investment of a large amount of money.The investigation of the dissertation is conducted in following places:Qianjiang Section of Chongqing city,Guangyuan of Sichuan province,Huangyangchuan town in Gulang County of Gansu province,Huangyuan county of Qinhai province.Taking those four places in west China as sites of field investigation,the study reviews the practical application of two projects of modern distance education—"Rural Distance Education Project",led by the state with hundreds of millions investment,and "Towns and Talent Technologies Project",led by enterprises.Among them,Qianjiang Section of Chongqing city,is the area which early enters into "Rural Distance Education Project", and the "Qianjiang Model" of "One System for Triple-purpose" is spreading in Chongqiang and other places in west China;Huangyangchuan town in Gulang county of Gansu province,is the first experimental unit of "Town and Talent Technologies Project",and the "Huang Yangchuan Model" of "schools leading local economic development" is imitated in all member schools.While in Guangyuan,Sichuan province and Huangyuan County,Qinhai province,there is not only "Rural Distance Education Project",but also many member schools of "Town and Talent Technologies Project". Those two areas,which are the areas of popularizing model,both are the continuation of the two projects.Comparing the two projects,there are some differences in application:the "Rural Distance Education Project" affects west rural primary schools by the means of "hardware" such as the site of "CD" play,the site of satellite reception,and classroom of computer network.The hardware is used to transmit so-called high quality educational resources,and is applied in education and enrichment of rural area.The applying activities are featured as "Content is king";While "Towns and Talent Technologies Project" aims to build a digitized educational environment for schools and rural areas in west China.That is,to allocate network Classroom System,to establish an internet interacting platform of combing the east and the west,to train local teachers, students and farmers for the internet application,to help local people make use of internet to improve quality,seek employment and get rich,and meanwhile,to lead them digitize western culture resources in order to attract outside attention.The activities featured as "channel is the king".Based on questionnaires survey and interview and a large number of field investigation data,the study analyzes the problems of educational resources' digitization and the deep reasons of different values' conflict.The problems of two projects' application in four places in west China are:1."Rural Distance Education Project" is working for transmitting the eastern educational resources to the western,which remits the shortage of primary teachers in some remote rural areas on a certain extent.And the application of projects also advances teachers' information technology quality.However,the applying frequency of ""Rural Distance Education Project" exists a clear difference among different areas and schools.The teachers do not play an important role in the practical activities of distance education.While the distance education resources give priority to eastern schools, which can not completely satisfy teachers and students' real needs.What's more,the evaluation of management is too simple,and the systematic service is inadequate.2."Towns and Talent Technologies Project" assembles more than one hundred and fifty schools as its members in rural areas in west China,and takes internet as its channel of "connecting east and west".The project makes use of network platform to organize the activities such as "western talents-nurturing and eastern employment", "Western Story",which already have had effects.But the "Huang Yangchuan Model" can not be replicated in other areas,and those teachers and students with "digital talent" can not push the development of electronic commerce with farmers.Enterprises can not popularize teachers and students' distance educational training because of the shortage of money and human resources.Thus,the project is far away to reach the goal of improving the local educational quality and informatize local society with the help of digital technology.The origins of problems in the two projects are common as well as different:1.Deviation which derives from the basic value orientation.In surface,these two projects all claim the education that improves teachers and students' quality,and hope that local schools could make use of project resources to build a digitized educational environment,and work for improving teachers' professional development,and prepare for students' future by improving students' quality.While in fact,the courses resources of "Rural Distance Education Project" are just carried out with subject teaching,which serves largely "exam leading";"Towns and Talent Technologies Project" also serves mainly providing network for students entering a higher school or finding an employment outside.The teachers,students and farmers,are with the point of getting rid of poverty,claiming school education should work hard for enhancing "rate of higher school entrance";the managers,taking the standard of higher school entrance, put the schools in competition and gives rewards and punishments,which strengthens this orientation.Meanwhile,the essence and dross from outer "Cyber culture" coexist, while the "rural culture" in west China is withering gradually.The school education is passive for it,and which is in a place that could not give attention to two or more things;the local farmers and teachers show rejection to digitization and slackness on learning local culture,which is to some extent,makes outside and local educational resources can not coexist and accrete.2.Though the choices of the practical strategies are different,they do face the problem of being "acclimatized"."Rural Distance Education Project" is mainly conducted by educational resources providing through CD,satellites and internet distance education.It holds the thought of "taking east resources for west",thus only to satisfy the needs of existing subject teaching,and ignores teachers and students' potential natural and humanistic needs of "born and brought up here".It does not work for building an educational resources environment with the coexistence of outside and local educational resources;While,"Town and Talent Technologies Project" concentrates on popularizing internet and constructing network platform between west and east China.The project holds the concept of leading rapid development of rural school education and social transformation in west China through digital technology, and thus it steps into wrong idea of technology determination,what's more,it equals "talents cultivation" to "digital talents cultivation" in practice.Thus,the study reflects some kinds of value orientation of educational resources' digitalization,and proposes the educational resources' digitalization should take the aim of realization of digitized education that based on life's uniqueness,which includes:1.Taking the proper application idea of "hardware,software and underware". That is to recognize reasonably and to hold flexibly on "hardware,software and hidden ware",the core is to lead people to integrate digitalized technology with education.2.In application,we should pay more attention to the core role of human resources of education.While emphasizing on shortening peoples' information appropriation distance by opening and sharing internet information resources,it should stand out human wisdom and show humanistic spirit.Thus,it could avoid us lost in a virtual world in which essence and dross coexist.Up to integrating digital technology with teaching,it should make use of the advantages which are brought by the learning activities that utilizes digitalized tools,to improve the realization of teachers' technological ability and educational thoughts updating synchronically.While building the digitized environment,it should take "underware" as guidance,and emphasize supporting teachers and students' personalized learning.3.The digitized activities of school education should satisfy the needs of students' existence and growth.It should pay attention to children's living world,and combine the local traditional culture into the digitized course system of school education.The nature and humane form of different ethnic minorities hold in west China are various and unique.Local school education should properly orientate local cultural tradition and drive its development.When it aggregates,chooses and applies the content of educational resources,it should also pay attention to the "combination" of the outside and local educational information resources.
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