Using Courseware Discussion Boards to Engage Graduate Students in Online Library Workshops

ABSTRACT

Librarians at Oregon State University (OSU) Libraries used the discussion board features of Blackboard courseware to create an interactive experience for graduate students at a distance who could not attend the on-campus “Literature Review Workshops.” These recently developed workshops have been extremely popular with graduate students across the disciplines and have generated a growing demand from distance education graduate students and faculty to offer similar information online. Reluctant to simply deliver content via an online tutorial, librarians sought to duplicate the workshop atmosphere by making the sessions available for a short time-period online, asking participants to respond to discussion questions at specific points in the workshop, and offering audio-mediated online demonstrations of tools and resources. Student feedback and follow-up requests for more workshops support the perception that this approach offered a rewarding learning experience that addressed their specific adult learning needs.     

全面育人之推行高职感恩教育探微

感恩教育是高职德育系统工程中的重要一环,是构建和谐社会的必然要求。然而当前各高职院校在感恩教育方面力有不足,高职生感恩意识普遍薄弱,对此应积极转变高职感恩教育的理念,整合教育资源,通过校园感恩文化氛围的营造及实践活动的开展,全方位推行感恩教育,以实现高职全面育人的教育目标。     

大学生网上创业教育探讨与SWOT分析

随着网络技术的飞速发展以及大学生就业压力的逐渐加大,网上创业由于其门槛低、成本低、风险小等特点正成为大学生就业选择时的一条重要途径。从大学生网上创业的背景、形式以及优势、弱势、机会和威胁方面进行了简要的分析,并在此基础上,对高校在大学生网上创业中应发挥的作用提出了一些合理的建议。     

Investigating university student preferences and beliefs about learning in the web-based context

Psychological studies have shown that personal beliefs about learning and environmental preferences affect learning behaviors. However, these learner characteristics have not been widely discussed in the web-based context. By developing questionnaires, this study attempted to detect learners’ web-based learning environmental preferences (WLEP) and beliefs about web-based learning (BWL). The scope of WLEP focused on the pedagogical dimension of the web-based learning environment, while BWL concerned the attributes and control factors of the web-based learning. There were about five hundreds of Taiwan university students participating in the study. Through factor analysis, the scales discussed in the study revealed a satisfactory validity and reliability in assessing students’ preferences and beliefs. Further analyses showed that university students preferred more of individual and structured instructional configurations while expected the outward mode of interaction. In general, students held a rather contextual belief about web-based learning, which was found to be correlated with their environmental preferences.     

文科大学生计算机课程设计性实验的研究与实践

将现代项目管理理念引入教学,并将这一理念应用于Visual Foxpro程序设计课程的教学实践。通过在文科类大学生计算机课程教学中设计性实验的实施,阐述了实施设计性实验的意义,总结了教学实践中遇到的问题,探究了问题存在的原因,并提出了解决问题的一些设想。     

浅析计算机专业少数民族班级的教学方法

本文针对西部地区高校中,计算机专业的少数民族班学生学习的现状,分析了教学方法中存在的一些问题及其原因,提出了几点建议。以期对其他同类地方学校的教学起借鉴作用。     

中职生程序设计能力的培养与探究

程序设计语言课程在计算机学科中占有重要地位,但对中职生来说,它是一门较难学习的科目,该文就中职生的程序设计能力的培养提出了一些见解和做法,以就业为导向,要求教师要从更新教学理念入手,引入做中学,做中教的教学理念,改进教学方法和教学评价模式,深入探究中职生程序设计能力培养的可行性,通过各种学习渠道挖掘学生编写程序设计能力和天赋,培养和提高学生的程序设计能力。     

Effectiveness of MMORPG‐based instruction in elementary English education in Korea

This study investigated the effectiveness of massive multiplayer online role‐playing game (MMORPG)‐based (massive multiplayer online role‐playing game) instruction in elementary English education. The effectiveness of the MMORPG program was compared with face‐to‐face instruction and the independent variables (gender, prior knowledge, motivation for learning, self‐directed learning skills, computer skills, game skills, computer capacity, network speed, and computer accessibility) were examined to see how accurately achievement was predicted in MMORPG instruction. The results indicated that students studying English utilizing online role‐playing games showed higher scores in areas of listening, reading, and writing than those who attended face‐to‐face instruction classes. It was also found that prior knowledge, motivation for learning, and network speed were factors affecting achievement in English learning. These findings suggest that MMORPGs can play an important role in improving English communicative skills.     

Perceived stress,sensation seeking,and college students’ abuse of the Internet

College students (n = 140) were examined to test whether sensation seeking and perceived stress would predict abuse of the Internet. Previous studies have found that disinhibition, boredom susceptibility, and total sensation seeking scores were related to Internet abuse ( 9 and 30). Because stress has been documented to have a negative effect on students ( Pierceall & Keim, 2007), and may be linked to Internet use ( Lavoie & Pychyl, 2001), it was tested as a possible predictor of Internet abuse. This study also analyzed abuse of the Internet for sexual purposes, because sexuality is prevalent online, and college students are in an age of sexual exploration. Results of stepwise regression analyses revealed that disinhibition and total perceived stress were predictive of Internet abuse for sexual purposes, and perceived hopelessness and boredom susceptibility were predictive of Internet abuse for non-sexual purposes. Implications for students and Internet abuse are discussed.     

让医学生的计算机程序设计课程“动”起来

将"Java程序设计"作为医药类本科学生的第一门计算机课,并尝试使用生动教学法组织教学约两年半之后,笔者发现针对Java中有面向对象、继承、输入输出流和多线程等许多新概念的引入,在教师致力于展现编程语言魅力、生动实训内容、为学生提供自由发挥空间和设计多样化考试方案的情况下,原本僵死的语法和严格的命令变得生动和鲜活起来,从而提高了医药学院学生学习计算机程序设计的兴趣和主动性,取得了较好的教学效果。本文论述了笔者在不断改进教学方法、努力提高教学质量以及培养学生计算机应用能力方面所做的一些有益尝试。