The Inquiry Of Moodle-based IT's Integration Into Curriculum

The main purpose of this thesis is,referring to the research of integrating information technology(IT) into curriculum home and abroad ,under the guidance of the Cognitive learning theory and Constructivism theory and multiple intelligence theory and humanistic psychology,with the methods of literature research and questionnaire research and practice research,via an open-source web platform Moodle, to carry out the research of integrating information technology into the course of Introduction to Educational Technology of educational technolgy specialty in higher normal school. The research deeply analyzed the basic theories and methods of IT's integration into curriculum,concluded and designed Moodle-based process models of integrating IT into the course of introduction to educational technology through the practice on the Moodle platform,and showed the general process to integrate information technology into the course of Introduction to Educational Technology using the above process models,and provided corresponding appication cases.At last,we analyzed the effect of our integration research,pointed out the existing problems during the research and provided effective advice for the following research.We hope that our research could solve the existing problems of teaching and learning the course of Introduction to Educational Technology at the present,and provide some reference and inspiration for the integration of IT and curriculum in higher education,and promote the wide use of Moodle in domestic integration research.In chapter one,firstly we introduced the background of IT's integration into curriculum and analyzed the significance of the research.And then we indicated the current condition of the integration of information technology and curriculum home and abroad.Lastly,we indicated the study goals and study methods we adopted.In chapter two,we outlined basic theories of integrating information technologyintocurriculum.Firstly,we expounded its connotation,objectives,principles and lying theory.Secondly,we introduced the steps as well as the present models of integration information technology into curriculum.Lastly,we distinguished the concept of integrating IT into curriculum from the concepts of web-assisted instruction,blending learning and web courses.The integration of information technology and curriculum is a kind of two-way,interacitve flexible combination between information technology and curriculum instruction.That is,during the course of integrating IT into curriculum,not only will we take information technology as a tool to improve learning and teaching of the curriculum,but also we will cultivate student's information literacy. Its essence is to design one new kind of teaching environment and to accomplish a new instruction method characterized by self-regulation and inqury and cooperation and to reform traditional classroom instruction structure and finally to cultivate students'initiative spirit and practice ability.In chapter three,we verified the necessity and feasibility of integrating information technology into curriculum by the analysis of questionnaires handed out before the integration research.Before our research,we handed out questionnaires to the 2005-grade undergraduates and the 2006-grade undergraduates to find out their learning condition of the course of Introduction to Educational Technology to provide references for the analysis of necessity and feasibility.In chapter four,we concluded and designed the process models of moodle-based IT's integration into the course of Introduction to Educational Technology based on specific practice,and then showed the general process to integrate information technology into the course of Introduction to Educational Technology using the above process models,and provided specific application cases.To integrate IT into curriculum,we must carry out specific learning acitvities.On Moodle,the author carried out initiative inquring learning and cooperative learning in order to integrate IT into the course of Introduction to Educational Technology.So in chapter four,we explore separately corresponding process model.In chapter five,we analyzed the integration effect by the contrast research of the former and latter questionnairs of integrating information technology into curriculum,it concluded the change of student's intrest and information ability and initiative inquiring ability and cooperative learning ability.At last,we analyzed the existing problems during the research and reconsidered this condition to provide some practical suggestions.In chapter six,we concluded and illustrated our main work and research results.