Investigating The Design Of An Open And Personalized Online Learning Process

With increasingly easy access to World-Wide-Web in the last decade, net-based education is becoming prevalent and has found its great application in some experimental units to train and educate human resources. Quite a few factors, such as social economic transition involving different human resources, technological development of internet, learners'individual needs, have exerted a higher requirement for internet administration and support service. It is necessary for online educators to design a learner-friendly process and offer an open and flexible platform with personal differences.The design of online learning process ought to be characterized by openness and interaction. Individualization is not only the goal learners pursue but also the destination online education aims to approach. Web-based education can make full use of internet to deign an open learning process, which can help students learn with individual differences and make then live up to their potentials and facilitate their all-round development.My thesis aims to discuss the openness of web-based education and attempts to investigate how to provide the on-the-job learners with an open and flexible platform and support system. The management platform design of web-based education in Shangdong University is employed in this thesis as a typical case to illustrate how to apply theory to practice. An open and personalized online learning process plays a critical role in securing the quality of web-based education and guaranteeing its uniqueness and realizing sustainable development of online education. In this sense, it has significant value both in theory and practice.As proposed in the Framework of National Mid-term and Long-term Educational Reform and Development Plan, our country aims to modernize education and develop a learning society fundamentally, making China a great power rich in human resources. Modern distant education and public service platforms based with satellite, television and internet will make their own contribution to a convenient, flexible and personalized learning style. A creative online teaching and learning strategy is imperative to secure high-quality distant education for academic credentials. An open and personalized learning system enables every learner to take advantage of their own strengths to practice life-long learning wherever and whenever they want.