A Research On Character, Function And Organizational Managing Mode Of Virtual Instructional Research In K-12

In the decades years, capability education, IT in education, and the reformation of new curriculum have become three treads to drive the reformation and development of K-12 education in China. They have great impact on all the parts of the K-12 education, and also bring them good developmental opportunities. One of the opportunities embodies in virtual instructional research activity and virtual instructional research centre. They are a kind of new organizational form of instructional research, a new stage for the training of teachers in information age, a new world for the instructional reform attended by the teachers and students, an updating resource bank and a living web-class.Reviewing the history of virtual community and educational virtual community by exploring a great deal of literature and synthesizing the present developmental condition of virtual instructional research in the world, this thesis probes into the process of coming into being and developing of virtual instructional research. On the basis of literature search, synthesis, analysis, the paper selects three representative cases and then analyzes them carefully. By combing the outcome of a questionnaire, this paper deduces the character and function of virtual instructional research. This thesis also probes into the managing and organization form of virtual instructional research. Compared with traditional instructional research, the character of virtual research is that: (1) the subjective of research activity has changed; (2) the environment of research activity has changed, (3) the content and objective has changed, (4) the organization form has changed. The function of instructional research is that: (1) it realizes a communication crossing time, space and people, (2) it promotes the professional development of teachers, (3) it provides abundant, dynamic instructional resource bank, (4) it establishes a dynamic, web-class. The organizational and managing way of virtual instructional research is discussed in three aspects: the managing mode in technology and resource, the managing mode in human resource and the managing mode in organization.