摘要
MOOCs的实践和研究正风靡全球,日益成为课堂改革的流行语。如何制作高质量的MOOCs,如何促进MOOCs的创新共享,实现其可持续发展,已成为众多高等教育机构和研究者关注的焦点。本期我们邀请到香港大学(简称港大)MOOCs执行主席与总负责、校长助理、电气电子工程学系副主任郭予光(Ricky Yu-Kwong KWOK)教授,他负责香港大学MOOCs课程开发、技术处理、交付管理、资金调度与宣传发布,并代表香港大学在edX全球会议上汇报交流。他的研究和教学兴趣主要是大规模分布式计算机系统、无线电系统与网络安全,目前他担任国际期刊《并行与分布式计算》(Parallel and Distributed Computing)主编,《电气与电子工程师协会并行与分布式系统汇刊》(IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems)副主编及《传感器网络》(Sensor Networks)编委,发表论文170多篇,出版20多本专著。借助在香港大学研修的机会,笔者与郭予光教授就MOOCs制作流程、运作机制、存在问题、创新共享及可持续发展等进行了深入的交流和探讨。选取港大MOOCs为研究对象的原因是:一、港大在国际高等教育研究机构首次QS公布的亚洲大学排行榜中名列第一,学术水平较高。二、港大的国际接轨教育模式沿袭了英国教育体系,其特有的教学理念和教学模式为学习者提供了极佳的学习环境。港大的全部课程都以英文授课,并在Moodle平台上提供课程讨论、作业等辅助教学手段,线上和线下教学有效融合。三、港大独特的地理位置和文化有优势。香港是自由港口,是一座国际化大都市,又有着几千年中国传统文化的熏陶,具有相当强的本土化特色。因此,港大有背靠东学、面向西学的绝佳优势,该校MOOCs建设实践可以为国内外开放课程的建设及可持续发展提供借鉴。
Nowadays, MOOCs’ practices and researches are fashionable in theworld. Ithas increasingly become the buzzword of classroom reform. However,many issues are concerned by researchers from the institutions of higher education, such as how to make high quality MOOCs, how to promote the innovation and sharing of MOOCs, and how to sustain the development of MOOCs.
Yu-Kwong KWOK is a famous professor in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Hong Kong, and meanwhile, he is Associate Vice-President and the head of working group of HKU MOOCs. His research interest is on large-scale distributed computer system, radio system and network security. His responsibility is organizing HKU MOOCs systematically. Specifically, his jobs mainly focus on curriculum development, technology processing, propaganda, management, scheduling and publication and so on. He used to give a report at edX global conference on behalf of HKU. He is the Editor in chief of Parallel and Distributed Computing, and Associ-ate Editor-in-chief of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, and Editorial board member in Sensor Networks. He published over 170 papers, and more than 20 books. As a visiting scholar of HKU,the first author has a deep communication with professor Yu-Kwong KWOK on MOOCs. During the visiting period, professor Yu-Kwong KWOK introduced some work on HKU MOOCs to us for a few times, and we Listened some lectures on MOOCs work reports from experts of other universities. This study focuses on the practicing experience, sharing and innovation, operating mechanism and existing problems, and sustainable development on the construction of HKU MOOCs.
The reasons why we choose HKU MOOCs as the research object are as follows. Firstly, HKU ranked first in Asian university rankings that published for the first time in international higher education research institutions QS, which means it has high academic level. Secondly, the international education model provides an excellent diverse learning environment for students. The entire curriculum is in English. The learning management system Moodle offers the online experiences for discussion and other online activities. Online and offline teaching convergence are obtained. Thirdly, Hong Kong is a free port and an international metropolis. It has thousands of years Chinese traditional culture, so it has quite a strong local characteristics. Therefore, HKU has the great advantages that back to the east while face to the west. The construction practice of HKU MOOCs can provide references for the construction of open courses and its sustainable development at home and abroad.
出处
《开放教育研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2015年第3期4-10,共7页
Open Education Research
基金
江苏高校优势学科建设工程资助项目
江苏师范大学博士学位教师科研项目"微课程促进学习方式转变研究"(13XWR001)
江苏师范大学教育教研课题"公共课‘教育心理学’微课开发与实证研究"(JYK201403)
江西高校人文社会科学研究项目"基于MOOC的混合教学中大学生学习适应性研究"(JY1415)
关键词
MOOCs
实践探索
创新共享
可持续发展
MOOCs
practice and exploration
innovation and sharing
sustainable development
