Research On Calculating The Workload Of Web-Based Courses In University

With the application of information technology in education and the constructing of excellent course project, making and application of web-based course have got the great attention of every university. The development of the web-based course is a time and force consuming complicated work, but there is not a ripe science computing technology yet at present in the workload of web-based course, which influenced the relevant teachers'enthusiasm of developing web-based course seriously, influenced the sound development of web-based course at the same time.From investigating the situation of workload calculation in nine institutes in Henan province, and drawing lessons from computing the workload of teaching, scientific research and experiment, combining the development experience of practicing field of ET, we propose the principles to count up the workload of web-based course: firstly the workload of web-based course is multiplied by the workload of primitive workload and an coefficient, which includes quality evaluation and rank comment; secondly, the key element that the primitive workload of web-based course calculates is while changing the making time of course into the class hour that can be weighed as teaching, workload of experiment; finally, we consider the composition element of web-based course fully, combine media's characteristic and the convention while developing, and then derive the rational workload formulae of web-based course.