1. The characteristics of educational technology as an interdisciplinary subject will become more and more prominent.
Educational technology is an interdisciplinary subject and a bridge connecting pedagogy, psychology, information technology and other disciplines. As an interdisciplinary subject, it needs the support of technology, especially information technology. The development of educational technology is inseparable from the progress of technology. In the future development, information science and artificial intelligence will play an increasingly important role. Educational technology should pay attention to how to use technology more effectively and how to use technology to promote learning.
Secondly, educational technology, as an interdisciplinary subject, is embodied in its integration of many ideas and theories. From the development of educational technology, the theoretical basis of educational technology mainly includes educational theory, learning theory, communication theory, system theory and so on. Today, with the rise of humanism, although all kinds of learning theories belong to different places, they have been integrated in the field of educational technology, aiming at promoting people's development and doing their best. People not only pay attention to individual learning psychology, but also systematically study how to cooperate and collaborate among students and how to conduct comprehensive learning based on problems.
Thirdly, the interdisciplinary nature of educational technology determines the diversification of its research and practice subjects, and cooperation will become an important feature of educational technology development. Including education, psychology, teaching design, computer technology, media theory and other experts and scholars from different backgrounds to study and practice together. Open discussion and cooperative research have become important features of educational technology.
2. Pay attention to the practical and supportive research of educational technology.
Educational technology, as an interdisciplinary subject with equal emphasis on theory and practice, needs theory to guide practice and conduct theoretical research in practice. At present, the two frontier fields of educational technology research are the integration of information technology and curriculum and online education. All these and even the establishment of lifelong education system emphasize the support for learners' learning, that is, all work is centered on how to promote learning. Because of this, people will pay more and more attention to the practical and supportive research of educational technology.
Teacher training
Who will support learning first and how, that is, teacher training. All countries in the world attach great importance to teacher training. In 2000, the American Institute of International Educational Technology formulated the Basic Standards of Educational Technology for All Teachers, which stipulated the basic abilities that teachers should possess in educational technology. In order to reach this standard, teachers need to be systematically trained in educational technology. In addition, Britain, France, Singapore, South Korea and other countries also attach great importance to the training of teachers.
According to the survey, there are still 1/3 teachers who know little or nothing about educational technology in areas with rapid development of educational technology in China. The survey also shows that most front-line teachers welcome educational technology training and have strong learning motivation. Therefore, how to train teachers in educational technology, especially how to implement effective training, needs our educational technicians to explore constantly in practice.
Construction of teaching resources
The construction of teaching resources, especially the design and application of educational software, deserves our attention. At present, the application of educational software is far from our expectation. The outstanding problems are: scientific error, poor applicability, poor interaction, poor production and poor intelligence. With the continuous development of network technology, intelligent technology, agent technology and virtual reality technology, a new generation of intelligent educational software with network as the core will occupy an increasingly important position in the educational software market. How to overcome the difficulties in the current educational software industry and develop online teaching resources suitable for learners' characteristics and needs will become an important research topic in resource construction.
In addition, in order to make educational resources widely shared and exchanged, the research on technical standards of online education has become a hot issue in recent years. In 200 1 year, organized by the Ministry of Education, China Modern Distance Education Standardization Committee was established, specializing in the formulation and promotion of online education technical standards.
Learning support
Educational technology pays close attention to the support of students' learning in research and practice, including students' learning activities, teaching organization and teaching evaluation under the background of information technology, especially under the network environment. Teachers working in the front line of education can deeply feel the problems existing in teaching, and only they can solve them according to the actual situation and theoretical knowledge. Educational technicians should provide teachers with various ideas and methods to solve practical teaching problems and provide strong support for students' learning.
3. Make a more comprehensive investigation and research on the application of computer education.
At present, countries all over the world have invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to study and explore the application of new technologies in the field of education. While we are happy with these practices, we have to think calmly about some problems in the application of computers in education in order to have a more comprehensive understanding of the application of computers in education.
Application pertinence: Practice has proved that computers are not equally effective for all disciplines and objects, especially those related to humanities or cultivating personal feelings, and those that pay attention to practical operation ability. Therefore, what needs to be grasped is which subjects, knowledge points and learning objects should be targeted at in the application of computers in education, and what strategies should be adopted.
Application conditions: When computers are used in education, it is necessary to consider whether leaders attach importance to them, whether capital investment can keep up, whether teachers have basic computer skills, whether they have sufficient teaching resources to support them, and whether they are psychologically prepared. Moreover, there is a close relationship between various conditions. For different regions and schools, the standards and combinations of conditions are different. Workers engaged in educational technology research need to choose different types of schools in different regions, conduct scientific experiments and popularize successful experiences through full investigation, field investigation and comparison.
Effectiveness of application: the effectiveness of application contains two meanings. The first meaning is the effect of computer education and teaching, usually taking the results of education and teaching evaluation as the main reference. Another meaning is the input-output ratio, that is, the benefit problem. People have done a lot of work on the former and paid more and more attention to the latter. However, at present, there are no practical research results on the benefits of computers and other technologies in education, which will cause blindness in people's investment and hinder the further development of educational technology. A comprehensive study of the effectiveness of computer education application will be an important content of educational technology research.
4. Pay attention to the study of learning psychology in the technical environment.
First of all, we should study the differences between different people in learning technology. At present, people have realized the importance of problem-solving ability, innovative thinking, collaborative skills and information literacy, but how to bridge the digital divide and enable all learners to learn effectively by using technology is an important research topic in environmental construction and resource construction.
Secondly, it is necessary to further study the characteristics of people's learning behavior and psychological process in the technological environment, how people interact with the technological environment, and what factors affect learners' psychology (such as motivation). With the progress of technology and the in-depth study of learning psychology under the technical environment, the research in the field of educational technology will no longer be satisfied with the simple application of technology, and the creation of adaptive learning and collaborative learning environment will surely become the focus of cutting-edge research. The learning environment supported by technology will truly reflect the characteristics of openness, sharing, interaction and cooperation. In this learning environment, more attention will be paid to learners' internal emotions and other non-intellectual factors, and more attention will be paid to the role of social communication in learning.
5. Pay more attention to the design and support of learning activities.
The future teaching design should not only pay attention to the design of learning resources and learning process, but also pay attention to the design and support of learning activities. In order to cultivate comprehensive talents, teaching design will pay more and more attention to curriculum integration, especially the integration of general subjects and information technology. In the process of integration, how to design research-based learning activities, learning activities based on practical problems, comprehensive learning activities and collaborative learning activities, so that learners can comprehensively use multidisciplinary knowledge and cultivate innovative talents is the focus and difficulty of teaching design. The design of learners' learning process and activities will be more flexible, the role of teachers as instructors in the learning process will be more prominent, and the research supporting the learning process will become more important.
The change of teachers from "philosophers on the podium" to "instructors around students" also means that the teaching design scheme is no longer just a teacher's design of the teaching process like the traditional teaching plan, but a "learning plan", and the design of students' learning process and activities will become an important part of the "learning plan".
At present, online education is in full swing, but online courses and online teaching structures need constant research, exploration and practice to adapt to its rapid development. The construction of online courses needs to pay more attention to the learning process, learning activities, learning organization and evaluation, especially the design of formative evaluation. As a tool for carrying online courses, online teaching platform should support more diversified learning activities. With the in-depth study of network teaching theory, learning activities will be more personalized, situational, diversified and comprehensive.