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Research On The Creation Methods Of Instructor Presence In Collaborative Online Courses

Posted on:2018-03-24Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:W W YangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2417330515498382Subject:Education Technology
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With the continuous development of information technology and educational concept,online teaching has been paid more and more attention,but in the complex online learning environment,learners successfully completed the online learning task is not easy.Foreign scholars have proved that the online teaching needs to have enough online instructor presence,the only way to ensure that online teaching effectively.Therefore,based on the existing research,it is a very valuable research topic to explore the effective way to create collaborative online learning in order to improve the effectiveness of collaborative online learning.The main contents of this study are divided into four parts:(1)By reviewing the relevant literatures at home and abroad,this paper systematically combs and summary the online and micro-level connotation of online tinstructor presence,the role of online teachers and the behavior of online teachers,the influence of online teachers on learners and create online instructor presence;(2)Based on the collaborative online course of educational technology research methods,the main research methods are used to design based on collaborative learning theory,activity theory and western theory about Ott continued support from the curriculum resources,learning activities,learning support,evaluation,guidance and other aspects of the role of teachers,online collaborative online course design;(3)In the collaborative online course design process,based on the collaborative online course introduction,implementation,summary and other three stages,emphasizing the creation of online instructor presence,and experienced online teachers to create and implement the preliminary exploration,optimization and improvement,Iterative completion of three rounds of iteration,improve the way to create online instructor presence;(4)Using the content analysis and statistical analysis method,the social network of learners in the cooperative online course is analyzed,and the number and quality of the participants are analyzed,and the questionnaire is used to understand the identity of the learners' comments and suggestions,summed up collaborative online courses in the implementation of the scene of teachers,the specific implementation methods and their effectiveness.The findings of this study mainly include three aspects:(1)The implementation of collaborative online instructor presence involves six aspects,namely,introducing online courses,reviewing and reviewing basic knowledge,creating learning situations,cultivating learning strategies,implementing student strategies,summing up learning outcomes.(2)The effective way to create a collaborative online course is to focus on the following five levels: First,at the beginning of the course to provide a syllabus,to provide learning activities or operating reference answers,in the learners partial problems,errors,problems encountered in the case of timely guidance;Second,send a lesson reminder message,summarize the learner's point of view to guide thinking,sort out and share the generating resources,invite learners to participate in the course;hird,to provide communication between the learners stent;Fourth,evaluate learners' learning outcomes,provide learning resources,send private reminders,and use emoticons;Fifth,the implementation of regular online counseling,set up learning activities stent,learning activities will be set up collaborative learning and self-learning activities.(3)Through the questionnaire survey,it was found that the creation of instructor presence in cooperative online courses very positive effect,that was helpful to ensure the continuous participation of learners,to promote learners' cognitive participation and behavior participation,to promote the exchange of learners,to stimulate learners' enthusiasm and motivation.In view of the lack of the limitations of this study and related research,that can increase the level of observation points from expanding research samples,learning resources,improve the online teacher team and further explore the online instructor telepresence to create strategies and methods,make up for deficiencies in the instructor presence research.
Keywords/Search Tags:collaborative online course, online instructor presence, the Creation Methods
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