On The Construction Of IT-based Autonomous Learning Environment At Universities

In recent years autonomous learning (AL) has received increasing attention at universities, as it can not only help produce better learning results but serve as the premise for individual lifelong learning and development. Information technology (IT) has brought great changes to ways of living and learning, and IT-based AL has grown to be a very important learning style. IT can be a powerful support for AL, but this does happen naturally. Therefore, elaborate design is required to bring its suporting role into full play. The construction of IT-based AL environment is studied both theoretically and practically from teachers' perspective, with a view to helping students' AL to improve their academic results and cultivate their information literacy.The whole thesis falls into five chapters. Chapter 1 is to present the subject; Chapter 2 deals with the definitions of AL and AL environment, affecting factors of AL, the role of IT in AL environment and types of IT-based AL environment; Chapter 3 gives an analysis of the theoretical basis and principle of the construction of AL environment, and proposes a framework for the construction; Chapter 4 is a practical research exemplified by the course Basics for Computer Literacy; Chapter 5 summarises the whole research.