Activity Desingn For The Web-based Inquiry Learning Based On The Platform Of LAMS

Inquiry Learning has been an important part in the curricula reformation of our national fundamental education. The development of information technology and the construction of informatization resource have provided more superiority for carrying out the Inquiry Learning, so the Web-based Inquiry Learning will be more widely used in the field of education than ever before.Learning activity are both a very important part in the process of Web-based Inquiry Learning and one of the basic element of Instructional Design. How to design learning activities for the Web-based Inquiry Learning? Which network platform we should choose can more effectively support the design and execution? These urgent problems become very common.On the other hand, the Activity Design theories have become hotspots in the field of Instructional Design recent years. The development of LAMS has also provided a golden opportunity to handle these problems which mentioned before.After having analysed the key elements of Web-based Inquiring Learning, this paper develops an activity design process based on the LAMS platform. This process has already been used in middle school classes. The paper achieved four main tasks as follows:1. Analyse the key elements of activities design of the Web-based Inquiry Learning. It is guided by the basic standpoints of the Activity theory, the Learning (activity) Design theory and the Activity-based Instructional Design theory.2. Summarize the advantages of using LAMS in Web-based Inquiry Learning.3. Develop the activity design process based on the LAMS platform for Web-based Inquiry Learning. According to each stage of the activity design process, give some proposals and provid some specific designing methods.4. Evaluate the activity design process and methods of Web-based Inquiry Learning by the feedback from the educational practice in a middle school's information technology subject.In the end, the paper summarizes the whole research and teaching practice and looks forward to the further research.