Plenary Session III: The Role of ICT in Higher Education, Open and Distance Learning and Open Educational Resources
The Broad Use of ICTs in the Learning Support Services: Practices and Explorations in Modern Distance Learning at Shanghai TV University
Chen Xin, Vice President, Shanghai TV University, People’s Republic of China.
ICTs have provided firm support for modern distance education, particularly offering students learning support services through various channels, which changed traditional way of teaching and learning as well as overcoming space-time constraints. Shanghai TV University has formed an initial systematic and steady ICT-based student learning support system, which is undergoing consistent improvement and optimization. The speaker will focus on introducing learning support system based on principles of modern distance education developed by Shanghai TV University with use of ICTS. The report covers the following:
- General strategies;
- Basic framework (websites, platforms, resources, services, applications);
- Main features of the system;
- Adaptation to the teaching innovation;
- Integration and application of new technologies; and
- Strategies for scientific development (enhancement of the core competitiveness).