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The Study Of Curriculum In Educational Technology

Posted on:2011-10-26Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:L M ChengFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360305476442Subject:Curriculum and pedagogy
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In recent years, along with the development of higher education and the expanding of educational technology practice domain, the society needs more and more professionals in the educational technology, which improves the social influence of educational technology and causes some problems, for example: the specialized characteristic is not bright and the graduates' professional competence is not strong. The curriculum is the core of education. Curriculum assumes the mission of cultivating people. It is essential that how to cultivate undergraduates by setting curriculum.This study uses methodology of literature analysis and questionnaire. Firstly, it analyzes the social backgrounds of educational technology, and the influence factors of curriculum. The knowledge structures contain core knowledge and general knowledge. The core knowledge is about"what it is", while the general knowledge is"why"and"how"about core knowledge. The capacity structures include some abilities of using, managing equipment, developing media resources, instructional design, information processing, learning and researching. Secondly, it finds some questions by questionnaire, for example: students can not understand this major clearly, they do not have enough learning initiative, they do not like theory courses, the selective courses can not meet their needs and so on. Finally, based on the program objective, it sets a specialized curriculum. It analyzes the influence factors of curriculum setting such as: teachers, experimental equipment and so on. It puts forward some advises: emphasizing specialized courses and theory courses, strengthening the practice courses and increasing the proportion of elective courses.
Keywords/Search Tags:Educational Technology, Curriculum Setting, Knowledge Structure, Capacity Structure
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