Foundation Of Online Learning Community Supporting Platform

Along with changing of learning idea and developing of technology, we realize the unique value of online learning community. This new online learning way provides academic supporting, cognition supporting and interpersonal supporting for learners, it is a turning point to solve such problems in the present on-line learning as learners feeling lonely, lacking interpersonal relationship, existing emotion flowing and so on.It is a practical, significance topic that how to establish a network platform to support constructing an online learning community, it carries on inquisition on the topic taking the postgraduates in educational technology department as example.The paper firstly elaborate correlation theories about online learning community, which include the concept of learning community and online learning community, basic theory and substantive characteristics of learning community and construction of online learning community, these theories provide a powerful theory instruction for the designing of the platform.The paper introduces the design and development process of the platform with emphasis. Based on the software engineering method, firstly, it introduces the demand analysis of the platform which being composed of the existing network platform analysis, the explanation of graduate raise plans, the characters and demand of the postgraduates. Then it introduces the function structure of the platform based on the correlation theories and the demand analysis. The main function modules are online curriculum, project cooperation, academic Sharon, resources base, community case, individual space, ET forum and community standard. The main function of the platform is providing a sharing, communicating and cooperating virtual environment for graduates to complete such goals as improving theory training, research ability, communication ability and so on. It elaborates the development process according to the design blueprint. The developing model is three system construction which is based on B/S pattern, the language is C#, the environment is Visual Studio 2005 and the data is stored in database of SQL Server. It states several main modules' function realizing and essential code for the other researchers. It introduces how to carry on function testing of the platform to guarantee the normal operation after development. Finally, it gives a summarization about the process of the research, and lists the shortcomings and the future tasks.