| With the development of the times that the network has penetrated into the military,medicine, education and other industries, the information-based talents are urgently needed bythe informational society. So, the education industry has a long way to go. In recent years, ourcountry has formulated a series of policy guidelines to promote education informatization, andalso held corresponding conference about the development of informatization at the same time tounderstand and guide the situation and direction of the development of education informatization.It also makes sure that in order to realize the education informatization, the traditional mode ofeducation must be reformed and the information technology should mix deeply with education.Therefore, a new way of learning that is popular with students and teachers. This way of learningis supported by the network technology and guided by new teaching methods. That is virtuallearning community.Virtual learning community provides learners with an open learning platform, making thelife-long time learning, equal learning and other idea learning desires come true. And this way oflearning can also make up for some drawbacks of the traditional learning and can break thelimitation of time and space for learning. In this way, learners can get abundant networkresources at anytime and anywhere. However, through investigation and study, many learnersfind that the virtual learning community has not reached the expecting for studies. As theemergence of the new mode of network education and new technology, more and more peoplepay more attention to how community can maintain its healthy development. In this way, thescholars can associate the term of ecology from the sustainable development of environment, andthen apply it to education. Therefore, the educational ecology has become an direction in thedevelopment of education. Thus, the virtual learning community can be regarded as a learningecology consists of online learners and virtual learning environment. Here, the writer chooses tofinish this paper from the concept of education ecology, and also from this new perspective toinspect ecological problems in the virtual learning community.This research adopts literature analysis, questionnaire, interview and on-the-spotinvestigation and other ways, and also draws lessons from some related theories. Such as, thesustainability and stability of educational ecology. And then discusses the management situationand strategy of improvement. At the beginning of this research, the writer states the researchbackgrounds, purpose, content and methods. Next are the related theories of virtual learningcommunity and educational ecology. Then the writer through field observation, questionnaire, survey and interview to understand the problems existing in the virtual learning community ofour department. From the perspective of educational ecology, the writer makes an analysis on thevirtual learning community and gets that the influencing factors of the management of virtuallearning community including main body, resources, interacting and standard. Through theempirical investigation into the four factors and further analysis of the data, finally the writer inthe view of educational ecology puts forward a applicable and operable ecological managementstrategy to solve the problem and realize the healthily sustainable development of virtuallearning community and diversities development for learners. At the end of the research, thewriter puts forward her own conclusion and expectation on the research, and hopes that thefollow-up researchers can make further supervision and improvements. |