Research on Exploring of the Teachers Support Service Strategy in Distance Education Based on Information System

摘要

Guided by the principles of Constructivism learning theory and hardware and software systems of distance education, this paper explores teacher support service strategy in open and distance education (ODE). In ODE, learners, for most of the time, learn by themselves since they are the active constructors of knowledge and meaning. Through exploring China's practice in ODE, it firstly proposes that teachers should develop an idea that the .product of education is not students, but the service for the students. Then it offers suggestions as follows. Teachers should provide learning materials, which is the object of meaning construction; then teachers should present all kinds of media required for the learners to process the learning materials and achieve their learning targets. These media serve as the tools for meaning construction and knowledge creation. Teachers should collect and optimize all kinds of teaching resources so as to adapt them to their own teaching practice. It is suggested that a scientific assessment system should be established and strengthened in order to evaluate the effect of teacher support service. At last, it puts forward some problems to be further studied, such as the combination of specific subjects and teacher support service, the effects of sociological factors and psychological factors on the effectiveness of teacher support service, and China's theoretical study of learning support etc.