Thanks to modern information technology Website design With the emergence of online courses, online courses have different functions and characteristics from traditional courses. To sum up, online courses can meet the trend and requirements of curriculum reform in basic education. Specifically, it shows the following main characteristics.
1. Democratization of curriculum coverage
So that young people from different regions, countries and rich and poor can enjoy the most ideal education. Compulsory education will become the right to education, and the democratization of education will be substantially reflected on the Internet.
2. Diversification of curriculum connotation
There are rich teaching resources on the Internet. Therefore, in addition to knowledge courses, there are competence courses, creative courses, methodology courses, life courses, etiquette courses, etc. The phenomenon of cultural diversity will be reflected in online courses.
3. Networking of course structure
Once courses are run on the Internet, there will be global courses, international textual research, and international teachers, thus breaking the boundaries of national boundaries, regional boundaries, and disciplines, especially eliminating the barriers between human and computer, bringing people's minds closer, integrating some topics of common concern or interest to research, and realizing an intelligent database similar to the global brain.
4. Modularization of course units
Modularization refers to a system or complete program, which can be divided into several components with certain independence, integrity and connection according to different functions. The online course adopts modular combination teaching materials, that is, it can organize the teaching content of each module according to the needs of each professional ability development. Learners can determine the learning materials they need according to their future professional needs and in combination with their own needs. With the help of teachers, learners can also combine modules according to their own wishes, and make new structures and connections between them.
5. Multimedia of course carrier
In online courses, the teaching materials used by teachers in teaching will evolve into a multimedia teaching material system with modern teaching media as the core, enabling two-way interaction between teaching materials and learners, and bringing students to the learning situation. Students will operate personally, select and develop learning content according to their own wishes, gain experience in active participation in learning, and give play to individual imagination, To generate and maintain enthusiasm and interest in learning.
6. Collectivization and integration of curriculum and textbook compilers
The design and compilation of online courses can break through the past practice of regarding curriculum design and compilation as an internal matter in the education industry. It should rely on the cooperation of first-class scientists, curriculum design experts, teachers with rich teaching experience and modern information technology experts in various disciplines to complete the development of online courses. Of course, this requires the members of the curriculum development group to understand each other, work together and make joint efforts, so that it is possible to develop a web-based curriculum system that fully reflects the new human knowledge system, is based on modern network technology, and conforms to the teaching/learning law.
7. Platformization of course materials
Computer technology and network technology have solved the problems of recording, storage, transmission, display and processing of large amount of information and large amount of information, and provided a new concept and technology for the compilation of course materials. Now, the textbooks of any course can be designed and made into a collection of huge knowledge and information related to teaching in this field, thus producing a new idea of modern curriculum design and compilation called "platform based textbooks".
