| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣師範大學 === 社會教育研究所 === 89 === The study aims to understand how online instructors promote interaction in their disance class, and what''''''''''''''''s their obstalces and suggestions when they put it in action. The study also analyses factors influencing interaction in online courses, and provides those findings for future online course design.
There are three types of online interaction in this study including Leaner-teacher interaction, learner-learner interaction, and learner-content interaction.
Multiple data gathering methods are used including interviewing six online instructors in university extension education and analysing their course web pages. The findings includes:
1. Online instructors use control strategy, facilitate strategy, and feedback strategy to promote teacher-learner interaction.
2. Online instructors use control strategy and facilitate strategy to promote learner-learner interaction.
3. Online instructors use control strategy and facilitate strategy to promote teacher-learner interaction.
4. The obstacles to online interaction inclues teacher-learner interaction, learner-learner interaction, and breakdown of computers or networks.
5. The suggestions of online interaction includes prior course design, learning evaluation after class, stability and more functions of class web system, and more assistance from the teaching assistants.
6. There are many factors influencing online interaction includes nowadays network environment, characteristics of adult students, subject domain and level of class, numbers of teaching assistants and their work, class size, and teacher''''''''''''''''s online teaching experiences and online class preparation.
According to those findings, suggestions are made for the practice and research of online course design in future.
|
|---|
