The Study Of Integrating Information Technology Into Curriculum Based On CSCL

Integrating information technology into curriculum (IITC) and Computer-Supported Cooperative Learning (CSCL) are two comprehensive fields in education informationization, and there must be some intersectant and syncretic parts between them because they both discuss how to support and facilitate teaching and learning with information technology. The studies about IITC and CSCL are often inconnected and separated, and there is scarcely precedents which discuss IITC and CSCL in one thesis in the exiting literatures. This dissertation tries to study IITC and CSCL synthetically and expects to clear up and probe into the theories and practice in which IITC and CSCL are combined together.This thesis consists of five chapters. The chapter one points out the background and design of the research, and it introduces the contents to be explored briefly. The chapter two probes into the theories and practice of IITC. This part reviews the history of information technology education in China briefly, then it explains and compares the meaning of IITC. The...