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Study On Students Interaction Strategy On Online Learning Management System

Posted on:2017-10-28Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:M X WangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2348330488450745Subject:Education Technology
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With more and more courses are migrated to the learning management system platform on the Internet,teachers' teaching pedagogy and students' learning concept should be expended. The interaction on the learning management system platform has become one of the current research and attracts more and more concerns. Different from face-to-face classes, interactions in the online course have certain delay and one-sidedness. And also strangeness exists among students. More and more kinds of interactive problems among students are coming out. How to solve these problems to promote interactions among students in web-based learning management system platform to improve the feasibility of the LMS and the performance of students is the focus of this paper.Firstly, The interactive characteristics of four popular learning managements are analyzed and summarized. They are four popular learning management system inside and outside China. Using Canvas learning management system as an example, its interactive functions and the author's experience on using it are summarized from both students' and teachers' perspectives. And also six courses from six majors are selected from a university in the United States. Those courses are based on Canvas learning management system. A course designed by the author on Canvas Learning Management System under the guidance of a professional professor is also selected. A survey was conducted among the seven courses and teachers and students were randomly selected to be interviewed. And then the survey and interview data were collected and analyzed.Conclusion were made.Therefore, students interactive strategies in online learning management system are proposed from the platform's, students' and teachers' perspective. For the platform, firstly, the online learning management system could use the third parties' connection software to provide more interactive selection to students.Secondly there should have a column for teachers to teach them how to design a better online course. Detailed instructional videos,good examples of online courses based on the learning management system and useful instructional resources should be provided. From student's perspective, first of all,students' interactive initiative should be encouraged. Secondly, students should construct a sense of belonging when taking online courses,integrating themselves into online courses. Finally, students should share related resources to promote knowledge innovation. From the teacher's perspective, firstly, teacherscould borrow the conceptual interaction model to promote the interaction among students. Secondly,teachers should release responsibilities to students. Let students value students using related value functions provided by the learning management system. Finally, teachers should often reflect on their design of online course, especially the interactive design to enhance and improve their instructional design ability.
Keywords/Search Tags:Online Learning, Learning Management System, Students Interaction, Interactive Strategy
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