Research On Web-based Thematic Resource Learning Community

The construction of educational resources is one of the focuses in the e-learning area, which can provide resource service for the e-learning environment and learners' self-access learning. Since Ministry of Education launched the "School to School Connection Network" plan in 2000 year, campus network has been built up all around the schools in China. Educational resource center (ERC) is the core part of the campus network, which is set up to support the classroom teaching and students' self-access learning. However, most of the educational resource center constructed by the government hasn't been successfully applied in the K-12 schools. That resources can't be dynamic updated and properly used in classroom are the two main problems.Resources based learning and educational thematic website are two hot areas of current e-learning application researches. More and more experts and K-12 teachers have realized the importance of the resources and online learning communities for learning. On the contrary, there are still not enough useful resources and platforms, which can be successfully used in teaching, especially lack of thematic resources. As a result, this paper is aimed at reconstructing the educational resources according to the thematic resources unit, building a "Web-based Thematic Resources Learning Community".Thematic Resources Learning Community constructs an e-learning environment, providing online instructional design tools and learners' self study platforms. The system combines the resources construction and student-centered activities, developing and updating the educational resources center during the vivid teaching and learning practices, so as to make the educational resources construction as part of the student-centered education.First of all, the author introduces the present research status of educational resources center, educational thematic website and Online Learning Community both here and abroad. Then the idea of "Thematic Resources Learning Community" is firstly brought up and explained in China. The paper illustrates the basic concept and function model of the Thematic Resources Learning Community, based on which a corresponding system is designed and developed. Finally, the Web-based Thematic Resources Learning Community system was put into practice for trial.