Adult University Computer Professional Education Research

As the 21st coming, we are facing the learning society and knowledge-based economy. It also popularizes the higher education increasingly. The adult higher education is facing a great developing opportunity. It's also a information times, especially the rapid progress in Internet, computer science is becoming a hot profession in the adult higher education. The society transforms and the innovation of the higher education, making the evening school facing the opportunity and challenge. The evening school is a good adult higher education for working people, but the farther improvement is restricted to the absurd course setting. On one hand, the evening school students show new characteristics. On the other hand, I can feel the great change in my evening school working, especially how to choose an adaptive teaching book for our students, it's really a hard work. The evening school students usually complain the course resources. Obviously, it's imperative to develop the appropriate course resources for evening school students.My topic is "the investigative study on the education reformation of the amateur adult collage computer profession: the characteristics of evening school students in the new period and the innovation of course resources". I use "Self-direction for adult learning" theory (from M.Knowles, famous adult education scholar) to reference. I investigated four universities and collages (Peking University, Beijing Geology university, Beijing Information Technology Institute, Beijing United University), include 168 students and more than 10 teachers. With the research methods of questionnaire investigating, interview, domestic and international teaching books antitheses and action analysis, I research into the innovation of professional course for evening school education, emphasizing particularly on the study of the characteristics of evening school students in the new era and the development of course resources.The main conclusions are: (1) we almost got an accordant research result with M.Knowles adult learning theory in part, but it also have some different issues, for the different culture, tradition, education situation, learning motive and so on between American students and Chinese students. (2) the main problems of course books from students and teachers are: first, the contents are dated, can't keeping up with the development of information technology "; second, book contents are too academic, unvalued for use; third, it's tough to use what they learn. (3) I present some innovational suggestions about computer professional course for evening school education.This investigation contributes to: investigated the characteristics, especially psychology, of evening school students and teachers systemic, and get their feedback on the course books. Raised adult education psychologic theory. Studied foreign professional computer teaching books, get some experience on book development. This research will provide help to the reformation of evening school education.