Bridge21 – exploring the potential to foster intrinsic student motivation through a team-based,technology-mediated learning model

It is generally accepted that intrinsic student motivation is a critical requirement for effective learning but formal learning in school places a huge reliance on extrinsic motivation to focus the learner. This reliance on extrinsic motivation is driven by the pressure on formal schooling to ‘deliver to the test’. The experience of the use of ICT in formal learning is marked with a naive and largely unfulfilled assumption that it would of itself promote a ‘game-changing’ shift in student motivation. This study investigates the effectiveness of a team-based, technology-mediated model called Bridge21 to encourage intrinsic student motivation. The data for the study come from 425 secondary school students, average age 16 years, who participated in workshops of 3.5 days in duration. The workshops took place in an out-of-school learning environment in one academic year. Bridge21 seeks to provide a vehicle to allow the transfer of control of learning from the teacher to the team and in this way to encourage and promote student autonomy. The principal findings reported in this paper are that participation in the workshops had a direct positive impact on the students’ perceptions around their learning and on their intrinsic motivation to learn.     

Media and Pedagogy in Undergraduate Distance Education: A Theory-Based Meta-Analysis of Empirical Literature

This meta-analysis employs a theoretical framework in quantitatively synthesizing empirical studies that investigate the effects of distance education (DE) versus classroom instruction on undergraduate student achievement. Analyses of 218 findings from 103 studies were conducted according to how media were used to support DE pedagogy. The results indicate that the effect sizes far synchronous instructor-directed DE were consistent and not significantly different from zero; in asynchronous DE, media only supporting independent learning was generally less effective than media supporting collaborative discussion among students, although both subsets were significantly heterogeneous. Follow-up analysis of asynchronous DE findings was framed in terms of three patterns of interaction—student-content, student-instructor and student-student.     

应用ADDIE模型进行多媒体互动英语学习资源的教学设计——对纯在线非正式学习环境的个案研究

探索中国纯在线学习环境下非正式学习中,为英语作为第二语言的学习者利用ADDIE模型设计多媒体和互动英语学习资源的有效性。目前的文献中对如何从纯在线学习教学设计角度有效设计英语学习资源及如何有效使用互动Flash技术的研究寥寥。作者重点从ADDIE教学设计角度对in2english．com．cn（英语通网站）进行了个案研究,结合了常用的访谈方法,指出了网络化非正式学习环境中设计有意义的参与性强的多媒体互动学习资源的重要原则。     

Exclusionary narratives as barriers to the recognition of qualifications,skills and experience—a case of skilled migrants in Australia

The paper reports on research conducted in Australia with (i) skilled migrants, (ii) public-sector recruiters, and (iii) skilled migrant placement officers (SMPOs), who assisted migrants into employment. Their stories were collected as part of a project, intent on improving recognition processes in higher education and employment by piloting a professional development program. The reported experiences underpin exclusionary narratives that prevent skills recognition and employment commensurate with qualifications and experience. The unsatisfactory nature of formal and informal recognition processes and their relationship to ‘subterranean’ forms of racism is explored.     

再造学员间网上聚会以创造更好的学生支持服务环境

本文旨在阐述以瑞典民众高中和学习协会为独特形式的瑞典非正规成人教育中远程教育的特征。依据瑞典民众高中和学习协会的办学哲学思想,“会议式学习”是建构式学习的基石,特别是当学习的目的不是为了应付考试而进行信息复制时,更是如此。当学生需要进行分析和批判性地讨论时,他们需要组织小组会议以取得对论题的深刻理解。“会议式学习”这一独特特征在瑞典民众高中和学习协会中的实践已有一个世纪之久。现在,这种在修课学员之间组织小组面对面会议又在现代远程教育中再现,以创造一个更灵活的学习环境,促进深层次学习和提供更好的学生支持服务。瑞典民众高中的教师和学习圈的圈长越来越意识到,在现代化的信息技术的辅助下,创造远程的更好的学习条件是可能的。他们还认识到,创建一个学员们可以聚会、互相学习并相互给予更好支持的虚拟网上论坛也是可能的。而且,实践结果越来越清楚地显示出:远程学习并不只是第二等的选择,与面对面的会议相比,两者各具优点。     

“深度学习”理念下小学音乐课堂的团队合作

在新一轮课改的推动下,小学音乐课堂教学的方式方法也发生了相应的变化。在"深度学习"理念支持下,有效地发挥团队合作在课堂中的作用,可以更好地提升课堂效率,提高学生的音乐素养。而探究在小学音乐课堂中组织团队合作学习的策略,成为当下教师思考的问题之一。     

欧盟促进青年人学习性流动的最佳实践与启示

学习性流动及其对欧洲学习和技能政策的贡献力是欧盟近年来大量讨论的主题。学习性流动是为了获取新技能而进行的跨区域、跨部门或跨职位流动。通过学习性流动,学习者可以掌握新知,发展新的语言技能和跨文化能力,从而提升人力资本。欧盟有关促进青年人学习性流动的最佳实践,如个人学习账户和非正规与非正式学习认证,为我国促进青年人学习性流动提供了范例。     

非正规教育:教育、学习与发展的紧密结合——应对我国社会对教育挑战的策略

非正规教育是第二次世界大战后出现的应对教育脱离发展需要挑战的途径.与各方面发展的紧密结合是非正规教育的最重要特征.目前已成为终身学习的支柱.世界各国都已将非正规教育纳入国家教育发展战略.面对我国社会当前的教育要求和挑战,需要重视和发展非正规教育.提高对非正规教育作用的认识,建立专业性的能力或职业资格认证机构,明确法律地位,建立相应政府机构.     

Learning to Cook: Production Learning Environment in Kitchens

Learning in workplaces is neither ad hoc nor informal. Such labels are a misnomer and do not do justice to the highly-structured nature and complexity of many workplaces where learning takes place. This article discusses the organisational and structural framework developed from a three-year doctoral study into how apprentice chefs construct their knowledge and skill in moving from a novice to a more experienced chef. The processes of knowledge and skill construction were as much aided by the indirect guidance of the production environments of the kitchens as by the direct guidance of the chefs. It is through the space, tempo, routines, hierarchy and workflow of a kitchen, comprising the organisational and structural framework, that many of the opportunities to construct knowledge and skill reside for the apprentices.     

试析我国终身教育制度创新的路径

自党的十六大以来,我国政府将构建终身教育体系、搭建人才成长立交桥纳入国家规划,出台了一系列政策文件。要破解终身教育理念高高在上、现实中却难以落地的问题,就必须要抓住制度与机制创新,以之为抓手来引领各方面改革。论文首先概述了我国终身教育发展的宏观政策背景,特别是当前畅通终身学习通道、构建人才立交桥的重要性;接着讨论了校内管理制度体系中四个方面的机制创新;然后讨论了校外非正规与非正式学习成果认证制度建设问题。最后结合实践探索中的一些问题讨论做了小结。     

终身教育视野下的非正规学习成果认证:理念与形式

非正规学习成果认证是终身学习实现的重要制度之一,我国当前已经实现了部分非正规学习成果的认证。已有的认证一般较为注重对个体学习的过程和结果进行证明,主要形式有成人高等教育学历证书、高等教育自学考试学历证书和职业资格证书等。     

The contribution of non-formal learning in higher education to student teachers’ professional competence

This article reports a mixed methods study on the contribution of various aspects of pre-service student teachers’ learning in initial teacher education (ITE) to their professional competence in a Five-year Bachelor of Education Programme in Hong Kong. Special attention is given to how student teachers’ non-formal learning in higher education contributes to their professional competence, an under-researched area in teacher education. A total of 282 student teachers participated in the quantitative survey, 18 of whom were interviewed. Although  Undergraduate Learning Experience: Formal Learning and Non-formal Learning was not the most highly rated factor, multiple regression indicated that it was the only ITE professional learning factor that significantly predicted all dimensions of professional competence. This supports the hypothesis that non-formal learning as a part of learning in higher education makes a significant contribution to student teachers’ professional competence. The qualitative findings showed that non-formal learning provided opportunities for service learning, co-curricular activities, and student exchange programmes with different objects of engagement. Student teachers constructed pedagogical content knowledge, general pedagogical knowledge, and knowledge of context through hands-on experiences, professional dialogue with practitioners, and observations of others’ practice. Such knowledge contributed to their competence in classroom teaching and to work in schools. Implications for ITE are discussed.     

Using ‘HOCS-Centered Learning’ as a Pathway to Promote Science Teachers' Metacognitive Development

An element of current reform in science education worldwide is the shift from the dominant traditional algorithmic lower-order cognitive skills (LOCS) teaching, to the higher-order cognitive skills (HOCS)-promoting learning; that is, the development of students' capabilities including those of question asking (QA), critical/system thinking (CST), decision making (DM), problem solving (PS), conceptualisation of fundamental concepts (CFC) and the transfer of these within both the science disciplines and real life interdisciplinary situations. Accordingly, an innovative metacognition-promoting science teacher professional development course, integrating formal and informal science education, was developed and implemented within a traditional model, focusing on the HOCS skills of QA, PS, and CFC. The HOCS promoting teaching and assessment strategies of this course not only enabled participants to reflect on their own learning, but also facilitated their self-reflective assessment, utilising a pre–post designed research-based methodology. The results suggest that such, or similarly appropriate, metacognition-oriented courses can contribute positively to the development of science teachers' HOCS capability.