Internet education is a promising prospect for "cloud computing"

The rise of new network education

The internet has broken the time and geographical limit of the education "campus wall", which provides unlimited space for the flourishing development of the network education industry. At present, network education as a new learning channel has been widely accepted. According to statistics, 2008 China's network education market scale grew 23.9%, to 35.2 billion yuan, is expected in 2012 market size will reach 72.3 billion yuan.

As a new teaching mode, network education reflecting the modern teaching theory and advanced teaching thought, it is not bound by the traditional teaching environment and teaching resources, but relies on the informational teaching environment, the teaching system and the teaching media to embody the close joint relationship between the teaching elements and form a relatively stable teaching structure pattern.

Compared with the traditional teaching, in the network teaching, the role of the teacher from the knowledge of the instructors, preaching to instruct students to guide the learner's independent learning, the pilot of network learning, students to construct the meaning of the promoter. The students ' position will be changed from passive acceptance to active participation, and students will become the seeker of knowledge and the real cognitive subject in the process of learning. With the change of the teaching process, it will be from the original knowledge inductive or logical interpretation of the teaching process into the creation of situations, collaborative learning, conversation, meaning construction and other new teaching process.

The bottleneck of network education development

But throughout the development of web-based education, it is not smooth sailing. From the network education has just arisen, as long as the entry can profit, to the later homogenization of serious, intensified competition, the student surge and the increasing demand caused by the pressure, many traditional network education enterprises into embarrassing situation. "Mainly is the original network learning platform has been outdated, in the face of rapid growth in the market, technology has some successor weakness." "In the 2012 China Distance Education Innovation and Application Forum," Chang, New Oriental Online CEO, said: "Internet technology in the field of web-based education has not played a large enough role, and has not played its due value." ”

It can be seen that modern network education today, the network education needs to find new technology as a driving force, and the advent of things networking, cloud computing technology and innovation for the development of web-based education has brought a chance to jump again. Some schools, education and training institutions are already aware of this and are speeding up the pace of catching up with cloud computing.

"Education cloud" giving force network education

The migration of cloud computing in education is called the "Education Cloud", is the future education information infrastructure, including the education information must be all the hardware computing resources, these resources after virtualization, to educational institutions, educators and students to provide a good platform for the role of the Platform for the education sector to provide cloud services.

Cloud computing provides schools with reliable and secure data storage centers. In the virus rampant internet age, the security of data storage is more important. The problem of information security is particularly prominent in schools where professionals are lacking. Schools use cloud computing services, and data is stored in the cloud. Therefore, there is no need to worry about virus intrusion and hardware damage resulting in data loss.

Cloud computing makes data sharing easier. Cloud services can be delivered to each teacher and student with a Virtual PC desktop. Whether you're at school or at home, or if you use a desktop computer, laptop, or cell phone, you'll get to the same virtual desktop, like a system that uses a single computer. So you can continue your work anywhere, or you can share your data on a variety of devices. Enabling shared mechanisms provided by cloud computing services also makes it easy to collaborate on sharing documents with others. You can take your unfinished writing home and work with your partner to complete instructional design texts and presentation documents and share them with other teachers.

"Cloud computing" will provide educators and educators with all web-based services.

The resulting "cloud education", "Cloud Teacher", "cloud teaching", "Cloud Teaching Resource Database", "Cloud Teaching Library", "Cloud research", "Cloud Examination", "cloud student Evaluation", "cloud employment consultation", and so on. For example, in the "Cloud teaching" network, teachers and students can interact with the "situational teaching" to provide unlimited imagination space and teaching scenes. In the "Cloud Teaching Resource Library" on the network, there will be every student's learning database, all kinds of students can rely on personal network key, at any time open, read their own learning materials. On the network of "cloud research", teachers will be able to exchange teaching experiences on the Internet at any time, consult the latest educational reform information and publish their own academic viewpoints. In the "Cloud student evaluation" of the network, each student will be because of their academic performance, learning performance, personal characteristics and other comprehensive performance, but the network is active, scientific, reasonable, human nature and has a development vision of comprehensive evaluation. In the "Cloud Student Employment Consultation" network, will have each student's growth record and the personal credit record, the student and the employer can carry on the information interaction at any time.

The application of new technology is bound to change the track of network education. Under the network economic and social background of integration, network, service and intellectualization, cloud computing will become the most frontier technology to change the network education, bring the remnant of the network education to exert the advantage of educational resources and realize the maximization of resource utilization.

(Responsible editor: The good of the Legacy)