The Creation Of The On-line Education System Of The Academy Of Military Medical Sciences

The on-line education is a teaching and learning environment accessible to both teachers and learners by taking advantage of the educational function and resources of the network. In this environment, digitalized information of education can be transmitted and two-way teaching activities can be conducted at the same time or at different times. The on-line education is characterized by a pooling of educational resources, free space and time for learning, multi-direction exchange and easy cooperation.The on-line education is currently nothing more than a supplement to traditional education, having attracted wide attention. The graduate program in Academy of Military Medical Sciences ( AMMS ) is dominated by traditional teaching methods without any on-line education for graduate students. AMMS has neither undergraduates nor full-time teaching staff except teachers of English and statistics and most of the teaching is done by leading researchers who work as part-time teachers. Besides, there are very few experienced teachers compared with institutions of higher education. As a result, there is insufficient contact between teachers and students. All this makes it necessary to create an on-line education system here to complement the current mode of teaching and improve the quality of teaching of the graduate school.The creation of such a system is expected to center on the education of graduate students and make full use of the characteristics and advantages of the on-line education with reference to the actual need of the graduate program and the network. Based on detailed studies of the kernel technology of the on-line education system and comparisons, a technological platform similar to an education Website, sophisticated ASP technologies and smooth-media technologies have been selected. In this way, analyses have been carried out of the teaching process and need of graduate students following a survey of the status quo in terms of education of graduate students inAMMS. On this basis, a design plan for the on-line education system in AMMS is presented that is based on Browser/Server. This system is divided into the user platform and the operator platform, with four important function modules: on-line dibbling, teaching aids, forums for scientific researches and system management.This system was incorporated into the intranet of AMMS in February 2004 and has basically attained the intended goal after being tested. The advantages of this system lie in its operation-friendliness, practicality of functions, powerful management and superb expandability. This system is expected to play an important role in improving the teaching of graduate students in AMMS. It serves as good reference for on-line education of graduate students in research institutions.