isaacmao.com: lifelong (e)learning

互联教育体系还不能忽略任何人群，包括身体残疾的特殊人群，这也是“互联”的最广泛含义。广州的王永德的工作应当在“互联教育实验室”(CESL)中得到宣传和广泛推广。

最近微软赞助的加拿大国家盲人学院把一个特殊的布莱叶奖授予了微软公司主席比尔盖茨，这也说明了比尔长期对不同类别人群的关注。这个网站应当留存：

在荷兰的一个研究组最近对不同的教育方法和虚拟学习环境之间的关系进行了研究，得到了一些非常有益的结论：不要把任何教育方法和一个特定类型的VLE做直接关联。

A team of Dutch researchers investigated the relation between various educational approaches (e.g. traditional, guided learning, active learning and experience-based learning) and the design and use of different virtual learning environments (VLE). Conclusion: it's not really possible to map an educational approach to a specific type of VLE.

The extensive empirical survey and literature review also showed that a lot of e-learning work in Dutch higher education is still about implementation rather than optimalisation. The experiences of those practitioners who did go beyond implementation suggested that adopting a particular educational approach in VLE use and design would not optimize the experience appreciably.

The team from CINOP (centre for course innovation) and the University of Utrecht also list some practical recommendations for e-learning in higher education:

- don't presume that the development you would like to happen, will happen without active intervention.
- most of the focus will be on 'learn to use' rather than 'use to learn'
- the use of VLEs need not require a re-orientation of educational approach
- the autonomy of lecturers means that they need to be persuaded of the utility of adopting a specific educational approach consistently
- bear in mind that the return on investment is usually lower for the lecturer than it is for the learner. Hence lecturers may not be that keen
- mind the law of diminishing returns; being the first is not necessarily best

Perhaps more ominously, the team also concluded that the quality of the learning process was not noticeably improved by adopting VLEs.

The report was commissioned by SURF (the Dutch equivalent of JISC). A paper version --in Dutch-- is available for free from the SURF site.

总能够在搜索某些内容的时候有意外的发现，这就是在网络上学习的乐趣。通过搜索鹦鹉螺的图片过程，发现了UCLA的宇宙生物学专业的课程，也进一步探索了UCLA整个学校的网站，发现他们真的是精心地在利用ICT提升自己学校的影响力和教学能力，这是国内的大学所不能比拟的。

留存： UCLA的宇宙生物学的课程内容和UCLA的学校主页
有关鹦鹉螺的数学内涵 和于之相关的设计，以及一些绘图作品和折纸作品