Virtual classroom is a learning environment built on the internet by using multimedia communication technology, which allows teachers and students in different places to carry out teaching activities.
Teachers and students integrate the environment of "teaching" and "learning" through the virtual classroom system, and carry out teaching activities, such as online teaching, online question answering, real-time live video teaching, real-time teaching monitoring, multimedia lesson preparation teaching, personalized interactive learning, synchronous counseling, synchronous testing, problem solving, BBS discussion, remote and remote synchronous teaching, etc.
2, the composition of the virtual classroom
The virtual classroom system is logically divided into four parts: electronic blackboard platform, teaching management platform, transmission network and user terminal. Electronic blackboard platform and teaching management platform are the core of the whole system. Teachers and students use user terminals to connect to the teaching management platform of virtual classroom system through transmission network.
3. The characteristics of virtual classroom
Virtual classroom is the product of the integration of computer technology, multimedia technology, digital compression technology, network communication technology and other information technologies. He is different from ordinary multifunctional classrooms. He has solved the problems that cannot be solved in today's multimedia classrooms and electronic reading rooms, which will bring a classroom revolution.
4. The application of virtual classroom
Virtual classroom technology has completely changed the limitations of human-computer interaction in information education. Virtual classroom is a completely interactive learning mode. What students face is no longer the cold information on the screen, but the real person (teacher). This learning mode is two-way, and students and teachers are completely open and study face to face. Through the Internet (including wireless campus network and mobile Internet), students can quickly build a virtual classroom with teachers anywhere inside and outside the campus when necessary, and learn interactively at will. Therefore, virtual classroom makes students' learning extend from classroom to extracurricular, from campus to outdoor, and from home to outdoor, which is a kind of all-round three-dimensional learning mode that really breaks through the limitation of time and space. .
5. The economy and effectiveness of virtual classroom.
The project adopts "Dream School" as a platform for experiment and implementation. "Dream School" is the most perfect and psychological virtual classroom platform that has been established in the market at present. The website is called "Dream School", which means to create a dream garden for teachers and students to transcend time and space restrictions and teach happily. It is also in line with the purpose of this topic to improve students' learning interest, learning interest and learning level.
The core part of the website is naturally the virtual classroom system. The virtual classroom system consists of four parts:
First of all, the core part of the website is naturally the virtual classroom system. The virtual classroom system consists of four parts:
1, electronic blackboard writing system: provides functions such as writing, typing, drawing, wiping, electronic pointer, electronic notes, etc.
2. Teaching management platform: e-book production, multimedia courseware production, school management, class management, teaching resource management, school website, class website and other functions;
3, transmission network: instant messaging, instant voice, video conferencing, everything;
4. User terminal: Any ordinary home computer can be used as a terminal. In order to facilitate students' carrying and meet the needs of the future development of educational science and technology, students will be equipped with a tablet computer with the brand of "Dream School" as an e-book bag terminal for students to connect to the virtual classroom.
2. In order to facilitate the interaction between teachers and students, the website of Dream School will provide most of the mainstream social functions, including personal space, blog (Weibo), forum, instant messaging, voice and video conference, etc. Through these functions, the interaction between teachers and students and between teachers and students becomes fast, convenient and humanized.
3. In addition, based on the teaching needs, the website of Dream School also provides various online teaching software, including electronic teaching material system, lesson preparation system, teaching system, whiteboard system, online review system, online homework and examination system, and online book reading system, which covers teachers, students and families, and provides lesson preparation and teaching for teachers. Review, internship (online work) and long-distance extracurricular tutoring for students after returning to China.
After the website of Dream School is completed, it will create a brand-new and unique model for the education website, and will undoubtedly become the most perfect and powerful virtual classroom system in China and even in the world.
Virtual classroom provides a feasible method for teaching students in accordance with their aptitude and personalized counseling. Virtual classrooms can build online classrooms anytime, anywhere, and teachers and students can sit at home and have classes, which greatly reduces the time and space cost of education, makes one-on-one teaching counseling possible, and solves most problems of personalized education and personalized learning.
Second, build a resource sharing platform.
1, educational resources sharing
Virtual classroom will effectively promote the sharing of educational resources. China is a vast country with great differences in educational resources and conditions. There is no effective communication and interaction between teachers and students, between teachers and between students. Because of the Internet-based characteristics of virtual classrooms, teachers and students can interact and communicate conveniently no matter where they are. The construction of virtual classroom website will build a network bridge for the interaction and communication between teachers and students everywhere, and will bring positive impetus to the balanced distribution of educational resources, the development of educational technology and the improvement of educational quality.
2. International educational exchange and language learning
With the globalization of economy, the application of information technology and internet in education is more and more extensive, and the globalization of education is the general trend. Foreign language learning is paid more and more attention by students and parents. In foreign language learning, the most effective way is to learn by talking with native English speakers. Virtual classrooms create excellent conditions for students to learn foreign languages. Through the virtual classroom, students in China can easily find foreign teachers to teach, and they can also talk face to face with their foreign classmates. Virtual classrooms can not only provide the best environment for domestic students to learn foreign languages, but also provide the same environment for foreign students to learn Chinese. This is another kind of resource sharing, which also creates a win-win situation for language learning.
Virtual classroom can be said to be the most economical place for language learning. By establishing a cooperative relationship between schools, teachers from China teach foreign students to learn Chinese, foreign teachers teach China students to learn foreign languages, or let Chinese and foreign students communicate with each other in the same virtual classroom to learn their own good languages, thus creating the best environment for learning languages without increasing any investment from both sides. This is a task that physics classroom can't accomplish.
3. Extracurricular tutoring and evening self-study.
Students' homework often becomes a problem that puzzles students, parents and teachers. In order to solve the problem of schoolwork, many schools adopt the way of self-study in the evening. However, self-study in the later period gave birth to many problems and opinions. The Ministry of Education has explicitly opposed evening self-study, and local education departments have also taken measures to stop and restrict evening self-study. But how to solve the problem of students' homework after class? Virtual classroom provides the answer to this question. Students and teachers can sit in their own homes to solve students' after-school problems, which is believed to be more recognized by students, teachers and parents than the later self-study confined to the classroom.
Third, the experimental objectives of the virtual classroom
This topic is tentatively presided over by Lu or Li Wenyu, deputy director of the Teaching and Research Section of the Guangdong Provincial Education Department. Liu Da, former deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Education Department and president of the Guangdong Education Association, serves as the general consultant, while the former director of the Teaching and Research Section of the Guangdong Provincial Education Department and special-grade teachers serve as the deputy consultants. Former Professor of South China Normal University, Professor Wu Zhanhua, Director of Teaching and Research Department of Guangdong Education Association, Gao Jiayu, President of Hong Kong Teachers' Association, Dr. Li Shuying, Director of Curriculum and Teaching Department of Hong Kong Institute of Education, Nicholas DeGeorge, Director of Electronic Publishing of Pearson Education Group, Xiao Guilin, President of Star (Education) Publishing House in Singapore, and Dr. Chen, Dean of Cambridge Institute of Technology in Canada served as consultants. A research group composed of professors and associate professors from the Education Department, Education Bureau, Education College and Teaching and Research Section, as well as the chairmen and principals of schools in the province, conducted in-depth discussions on the application of virtual classrooms in primary and secondary schools, and achieved the following experimental objectives:
(1) Build and improve the virtual classroom platform and resource sharing platform by summarizing the participation of schools in the province.
(2) Make use of virtual classroom to carry out one-on-one personalized teaching, and explore and implement the effective purpose of teaching students in accordance with their aptitude.
(3) Create an authentic English learning environment by using the virtual classroom, and provide effective ways for students to learn foreign languages.
(4) Explore the use of virtual classrooms instead of evening self-study, and comprehensively solve the problems that students can't solve effectively after class.
(5) Gradually promote the pairing and mutual learning between urban and rural primary and secondary schools, and establish the "school-to-school communication" project to strengthen schools and the "hand in hand" project for urban and rural students to help each other.
(six), step by step to promote the establishment of "teacher demonstration project", the construction of network "virtual studio".
(7) Establish a transnational "language learning mutual aid platform".