Analysis of Problems on Network Education Resources Construction
Yong Zhang 1
1
Huanghe Science and Technology College, Zhengzhou, China
(y_z1@hotmail.com)
Abstract - Informatization tide sweeps across the whole
world, the tentacles of network extend to every corner of the
world. The globalization of computer network provides
education a new resource. Network education has become a
new model of educational technology in its development,
which no doubt poses a new challenge to the development of
the new century education. This article analyzes the concept,
form and method of network education resources
construction, points out the development trend of network
education resources construction, which makes a beneficial
discussion to promote the application of network education.
Keywords - network education, library, resource
sharing, excellent course, information resources
I. The characteristics of network education determine the
necessity to improve network education resources.
At the beginning of new century, network technical
education is increasingly becoming the mainstream of the
development of educational technology, and currently is
in the initial explorative stage of network technical
education application. The network as a new
communicating technology and resource is introduced
into modern education, which may have a great impact on
former education environment, education idea and
education pattern, but meanwhile will promote the reform
of the traditional education mode for further deepening.
Traditional students study passively just around the
teacher, and teaching of teacher is inseparable from
traditional tools, like blackboard and chalk. The
application of Internet in education will make a great
impact on traditional education mode and break the
traditional mode. It mainly has the following
characteristics:
A interaction
Interaction; the Internet as a powerful interactive
media, possesses a variety of technologies to support
network communication. The communication way is
diverse, so teachers and students can choose different
interactive mode according to needs.
B compatibility
It can also collect learning resources, such as text,
graph, audio, video, animation and other media, in
network education together according to the needs of
teaching,
with
hypertext
presentation,
bearing
characteristic of systematicness and flexibility.
C Scale
Having a wealth of information resources is one of
the largest charms of network. And network information
resources are diverse, which involve all fields of social
life and various disciplines. Network information
resources can be shared, and no one is the master of
information; as for every learner in network terminal, they
are all equal in the face of the information. With a large
number of sharable information resources, it is just one of
main reasons that network has a strong developmental
momentum in education. It has characteristics of scale and
interaction, including how to communicate more
efficiently between teachers and students and how to
bring more and good learning resources into the internet
in efficient way allowing more people to see [1].
As a result, network education can not be separated
from relevant text, audio, video, animation and other
media resources. Expanding and improving network
education resources are an important task before educator.
II. How to establish and improve the network education
information resources
The man-machine interaction design of computer
multimedia teaching software can be divided into three
levels, including operational interaction, information
interaction and intelligent interaction. Multimedia
teaching software is a kind of computer teaching program
designed by teaching goal, presenting specific teaching
content and reflecting certain teaching strategy and is a
teaching media which can be used to store, transmit and
process teaching information, and is available for students
to operate interactively and can assess student's learning.
In recent years, with the popularity of multimedia
teaching software, all kinds of multimedia teaching
software of various professional fields is gradually
increasing, among which there are a lot of excellent
teaching software. If we can use the advantage of network
to build sharing platform of multimedia teaching software
under the premise of protecting author’s copyright, it will
be conducive to realize the value of high-quality
education resources to a greater extent [2].
It is a good way to construct education resource web
portals (GEM). At present, many countries have
successively established educational resource web portal,
such as, American education resources website
(http://www.thegateway.org/). This website, without
placing any education resource noumenon, is primarily a
data base recording the description of educational
resource metadata with a search engine, but linking all
kinds of educational resources together and providing
numerous of educational resources information to
American even global teachers, parents and students; they
are distinguished from the common search engine, its
working principle and website construction mechanism is
very special. The British also has built a national
education portal (NGFL). The author believes that
establishing a unified university education resources
portal in the future is an inevitable route of the
development of our education resources. Therefore, it has
great referential significance for us to study education
resource portals of these countries [3].
A integrating high-quality network educational resources
and constructing education resources web portals
The man-machine interaction design of computer
multimedia teaching software can be divided into three
levels, including operational interaction, information
interaction and intelligent interaction. Multimedia
teaching software is a kind of computer teaching program
designed by teaching goal, presenting specific teaching
content and reflecting certain teaching strategy and is a
teaching media which can be used to store, transmit and
process teaching information, and is available for students
to operate interactively and can assess student's learning.
In recent years, with the popularity of multimedia
teaching software, all kinds of multimedia teaching
software of various professional fields is gradually
increasing, among which there are a lot of excellent
teaching software. If we can use the advantage of network
to build sharing platform of multimedia teaching software
under the premise of protecting author’s copyright, it will
be conducive to realize the value of high-quality
education resources to a greater extent.
It is a good way to construct education resource web
portals (GEM). At present, many countries have
successively established educational resource web portal,
such as, American education resources website
(http://www.thegateway.org/). This website, without
placing any education resource noumenon, is primarily a
data base recording the description of educational
resource metadata with a search engine, but linking all
kinds of educational resources together and providing
numerous of educational resources information to
American even global teachers, parents and students; they
are distinguished from the common search engine, its
working principle and website construction mechanism is
very special. The British also has built a national
education portal (NGFL). The author believes that
establishing a unified university education resources
portal in the future is an inevitable route of the
development of our education resources. Therefore, it has
great referential significance for us to study education
resource portals of these countries [4].
B establishing network resource sharing system of
modern digital virtual library
Modern network education, as a supplement of
traditional education mode, provides traditional education
rich and colorful auxiliary teaching methods. In the
network environment, make use of rich literature
resources in traditional library, use modern electronic
information technology to compress information
resources and transform them into digital information,
then deliver to readers with convenient, efficient means. It
can also organically combine with university network
teaching formed gradually, improve education quality,
promote the development of university education business,
especially the digital virtual library’s development, and
highlight library’s network education advantages [5].
The advantages of digital virtual library:
1) The digital virtual libraries can provide network
education’s electronic resource; reduce the storage space
of network education information.
2) Use network and information technology to
provide readers with remote search, browse, or file
download and transmission function.
3) Realize real-time information service; users can
not subject to restriction of time and space to access the
network education resources.
4) It can extends readers, that is to say, serve readers
across region even country. According to incomplete
statistics, more than 500 universities in our country have
set up their own campus network linking with the Chinese
Education and Research Network. This huge modern
distance education network has put our university library
in network environment and can give full play to library's
learning advantage.
On July 1, 2008, the National Library of China and
the national cultural information resources management
center of the Ministry of Culture held cooperative signing
ceremony at the Wenjin Hall of National Library. The
National Library of China and the national cultural
information resources management center signed a
cooperative agreement, which dignified that rich digital
cultural resources of the National Digital Library would
serve the public through the national cultural information
resources sharing project network system. It plays an
active role in extending the service approach of national
digital library, enriching resources of culture and
education project, promoting the service capacity of
public culture and education and boosting the
development and prosperity of culture and education [6].
"National Library Project （phase Ⅱ）and National
Digital Library Project" built by the National Library is
key cultural construction project started up during
“ fifteen plan ” of our country. The National Digital
Library Project is an important part in our information
construction, which plays a leading role in the
construction of our digital library. Since the project is
started, based on the principle of “making construction as
giving service”, continue to increase the category and
amount of digital resources, expand the scope of service,
develop network service projects in order to provide
simple and fast, abundant and high-quality information
and knowledge service for the public. The cultural
resources sharing project organized and implemented by
the Ministry of Culture and Ministry of Finance jointly is
the foundational project that using modern information
technology strengthens the construction of public cultural
service system. Since the project has been formally
implemented in 2002, more than 570000 different-level
centers and basic service stations has been constructed,
which has initially formed different-level public library,
township comprehensive culture station, village culture
activity room as implementing body, covering service
network of the whole country, with 65TB of digital
resources [7]. At present, the number of radiation people
by sharing project has reached billion. Through the
project platform, excellent cultural information resources
are transferred to every corner continuously by internet.
The National Library has meticulously organized a
total of 2.62TB of digital resources for this cooperation
throwing in the service website of the national cultural
information resources sharing project in July 2008 and
providing free service for the public via the Internet, LAN,
e-government extranet, CD, satellite and other channels.
This time, the resources provided mainly includes: 50000
categories and 3.3 million volumes of e-book, 190000
types and with 380000 volumes of e-book remote account
access; 1029 volumes of selected book text data delivered
to countryside; 1680 bibliographic data of Wenjin Books
Award, nearly 100000 content date, 347000 pages of fulltext books; 2834 bibliographic data of chorography and
2834 types of chorography full text; 278 bibliographic
data of New Year paintings, 278 kinds and 339 scrolls of
picture data; a total of 41 online exhibitions and 379
online lectures. The National Library plans to provide
5000 volumes of new Chinese book for online reading
service at the end of this year and afterwards provide
10000 volumes of new Chinese book every year;
meanwhile, gives full support on the construction of
culture sharing project information infrastructure platform
providing support, operation, maintenance service for
network access, resource storage, main server and
database system [8].
National Digital Library Project and the Cultural
Sharing Project both belong to public cultural services
and have relative large cooperative space in technology,
resources, services and other aspects. Taking
“complementing each other’s advantage” as the basic
principles, the two parties will carry out extensive
cooperation in building infrastructure platform, digital
resources sharing and exchanging, the digital resource
construction and service standard and norm’s
development, mutual cooperation and exchange of
professional, personnel training, publicity and promotion,
which will obtain significant benefit in resources
integration and effectively improve the overall level of
two projects in resources construction, technology support
and information service and boost the prosperity in
education and culture network resources jointly.
C. coordination and management the numerous and
repeated content on network education
Rich network education resources provide a lot of
learning materials and teaching materials for teachers and
students in the application process. In view of knowledge
management, reintegrating materials is the most valuable
experience of teacher. However, the present network
education platform fails to explore, clear up, share and
apply really valuable information data and fails to
consider the construction of teaching knowledge sharing
environment systematically [9]. Therefore, studying the
knowledge management method is also a part to improve
network education resources and also a effective way to
speeding up the development of network education
application.
D. establishing and studying teaching evaluation system
based on network
The current educational evaluation mainly uses
summative evaluation only taking the exam at the end of
semester or relevant questionnaires as the basis of the
evaluation. The one-sidedness existing in this evaluation
has been recognized by the public. The targeted reform
measures are put forward and implemented gradually. But
carrying out evaluation in long-term formative evaluation
means need to put a lot of manpower, material resources
and give continuous tracking observation to collect and
count related information, which is difficult to achieve in
the current educational environment [10]. The network,
with its strong interactivity, spatio-temporal openness,
convenience in collecting and managing data,
personalized information exchange, efficient data
statistics and analysis function, makes it possible to
design and develop long-term formative network teaching
evaluating system. It is also an inevitable trend for the
development of teaching evaluation system, thus
promoting the application and development of network
education and finally realizing the optimization of
teaching.
III. Conclusion
Improving network education resources need
government, education management departments and
educational institutions at all levels, as well as first-line
professional teachers working together; especially, the
support and investment of government is the basic
material guarantee to establish network educational
resources of high quality. Education management
departments and teachers should start from the
construction of high-quality network courses and highquality network teaching staff, which will create a good
learning environment for the network learners to enjoy
independent learning and cooperative learning and allow
more people to get high-quality network education.
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