Learning Website Prospective Individual Teaching Platform Development And Applied Research

Individualized Teaching is an approach that caters for individual learners and satisfies individual personality. In the past few decades, many educators around the world have carried out lots of researches and experiments and have achieved a great amount of precious experience. However, research on Individualized Teaching has to face many problems since the research is vassalized by the development of science and psychology. The problems may be reduced to two categories:One category lies in the course of traditional classroom individualized teaching. The learning information feedback in a traditional classroom is slow, inaccurate and hard to memorize, which will undoubtedly add to the difficulty of the effective execution of individualized teaching.The other makes individualized teaching an approach that emphasizes learning but neglects teaching. In the teaching and learning process, the role of intellectual decision-making of computer programs is excessively stressed while that of the teachers in organization, direction and management is overlooked. The teacher spends much time dealing with teaching media or controlling teaching process via means of programming of teaching media. That is to say, the individualized teaching of the teacher is shown indirectly through teaching media or programs. This kind of transmitting mode leads to the come-forth of quantities of demonstrative courseware, stand-alone interactive courseware, resource courseware (many learning websites offer this kind of courseware). These kinds of software mostly function as shared learning resources or feedback directions to learners, neglect of the presence of or the feedback to teachers. Tethered by the development of psychology and artificial intelligence, a set of practical learning strategy suitable for all learners cannot be found anywhere. Therefore, controlling teaching process by means of pre-set programs can be seen only as an active trial but cannot be carried out in a large scale. The teaching results will certainly be beyond expectation.The application of multimedia network technology in teaching offers the chance of individualized teaching and self-study in class. On the basis of theories of learning motivation, constructivism learning, humanistic learning and information processing, by means of learning response information analysis, referring to the existing individualized education research, the author carries through the development and application research on the semi-individualized teaching platform based on special subject learning websites. The teaching on this platform can not only stimulate, sustain students'learning motivation, and effectively support the self-study of and collaboration with each other, but also offer the teachers a real-time feedback of the students'learning responses, the scientific statistics and analysis for a more targeted individualized teaching. In this case, the student becomes the master of learning, while the teacher the organizer, director and helper, making the teaching a balanced one between the teacher and the student. In the course of teaching, the role of the platform is embodied in: To the teacher, it is a timely feedback tool which may suggest some preliminary recommendations of teaching; To the student, it is a good instructor who not only provides learning materials suited to his or her tastes but also encourages the student continuously by feed backing his or her progress.When adopting this platform in teaching, the scientificity of the design of the special subject learning website will directly affect the scientificity and effectiveness of individualized teaching and the efficiency of the students'self-study. The author will pay close attention to how to enforce the scientificity of the design of the special subject learning website. That is the reason why the author calls the mode Semi-Individualized Teaching.