A Brief Introduction to

School of Education Technology

Beijing Normal University

September, 2009 Beijing

 Beijing
Beijing Normal
Normal University
University
A leading comprehensive university in China founded
in 1898
Supported by both Ministry of Education and Beijing
Municipal government
Having 20 colleges/ schools, 6 departments, 14
institutes and 3 R&D centers
211 project: one of 100 universities in China
985 project: one of 38 universities in China
1. Basic Discipline Structure
Discipline Structure

1 Engineering Center
1 Undergraduate
Program

5 Research SET
Institutes

3 MA Programs

1 PhD Program
Undergraduate and Graduate Programs

1.Educational Technology
Educational Technology Educational Technology
• Instructional Design & 2. Distant Education
Curriculum Development
• Educational Information 3. Computer Software &
Engineering Theories

1 Undergraduate 3 Master 1 PhD

Program Programs Program
 Support Centers: Engineering Research
Center of Digital Learning and Educational
Public Service, Ministry of Education.

• Knowledge Engineering & Proposed Labs & Centers

Instructional Software Lab

•Computer •Digital Education products

Aided Test Lab Evaluation & Promotion Center

•Digital Education Public

Service Research Center
 Domestic Academic Status

“A++”, “NO. 1”
“A++”, “NO. 1”from 2005~2008
Evaluations of China Colleges

“A++”, “NO. 1 of 176

Undergraduate Programs
Discipline Rank

“A++”, “NO. 1 of 47
Graduate Programs
 Peer Programs Comparison & A++ Programs

学校 是否
排名 校名 等级 二级学科 一级学科 学科门
数量 重点
1 华东师范大学 A++ 040101 教育学原理 0401 教育学 04 教育学 67 ★
2 北京师范大学 A++ 040101 教育学原理 0401 教育学 04 教育学 67 ★
1 北京师范大学 A++ 040102 课程与教学论 0401 教育学 04 教育学 86 ★
2 华东师范大学 A++ 040102 课程与教学论 0401 教育学 04 教育学 86 ★
1 华东师范大学 A++ 040103 教育史 0401 教育学 04 教育学 34 ★
2 浙江大学 A++ 040103 教育史 0401 教育学 04 教育学 34 ☆
1 北京师范大学 A++ 040104 比较教育学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 34 ★
2 华东师范大学 A++ 040104 比较教育学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 34 ★
1 华东师范大学 A++ 040105 学前教育学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 32 ★
1 华中科技大学 A++ 040106 高等教育学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 88 ☆
2 华东师范大学 A++ 040106 高等教育学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 88 ★
1 华东师范大学 A++ 040109 特殊教育学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 30 ★
1 北京师范大学 A++ 040110 教育技术学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 74 ★
2 华南师范大学 A++ 040110 教育技术学 0401 教育学 04 教育学 74 ☆

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 专 业 校 名 等级 开设的学校数量
　教育学 　北京师范大学 A++ 96
　教育学 　华东师范大学 A++ 96
　学前教育 　华东师范大学 A++ 86
　学前教育 　北京师范大学 A++ 86
　特殊教育 　华东师范大学 A++ 14
　教育技术学 　北京师范大学 A++ 180
　教育技术学 　华南师范大学 A++ 180 Peer
　教育技术学 　华东师范大学 A++ 180
　体育教育 　北京体育大学 A++ 199 Programs
　体育教育
　体育教育
　华东师范大学
　武汉体育学院
A++
A++
199
199
Comparison
　体育教育
　体育教育
　上海体育学院
　成都体育学院
A++
A++
199
199
&
　运动训练 　北京体育大学 A++ 64 A++
　运动训练 　武汉体育学院 A++ 64
　运动训练 　上海体育学院 A++ 64 Programs
　社会体育 　北京体育大学 A++ 147
　社会体育 　华南师范大学 A++ 147
　社会体育 　上海体育学院 A++ 147
　运动人体科学 　北京体育大学 A++ 27
　民族传统体育 　上海体育学院 A++ 37
　民族传统体育 　北京体育大学 A++ 37

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2. Our Faculty
Faculty Structure
 Professor HE Kekang Professor LI Mang

①
Academic Leaders

Professor HUANG Ronghuai Professor CUI Guangzuo

Professor YU Shengquan
②
③

Professor CHEN Li Professor WU Fati

Professor ZHONG Keding Professor LIU Meifeng
④ ⑤
3. Talents Cultivation
 Master

Undergraduate PhD

Students Post-Doc
Levels
&
Structure
 CTO, CIO, Instructional
Designers,
Cultivation Orientation Performance Experts,
Leaderships in ET
Organizations

Advanced Technology Talents

Discipline Characteristic: Training Objectives:

Application-Oriented Compound Talents
Interdisciplinary
 Specialization Branches

• Branch 1: Fundamental Theories in Educational Technology

Fundamental theories, Instructional Design and Performance Technology
theories, Curriculum Development theories in Educational Technology

• Branch 2: Knowledge Sciences and Engineering

Fundamental Theory System of Knowledge Service Oriented Tacit
Knowledge, Key Technologies Research of Knowledge Engineering

• Branch 3: Education Information Engineering

The Development of Education Information System, Optimization Research
in Education Informationization

• Branch 4: Distant Education

Fundamental theories, Distant Education Environment, Discipline
Construction, Distant Educational Economy and Management

• Branch 5: Performance and Corporate E-learning Training

Organizational Reform, Knowledge Management, Performance
Improvement, Corporate E-learning Environment Research
 Discipline System & Excelsior
Textbook Construction

Author Textbook Name Press

HE Kekang Educational Technology BNU Press
HUANG Ronghuai Fundamentals of Multimedia Technology HE Press
ZHONG Keding Information Technology in College Tsinghua U Press 
CHEN Li Distant Education HE Press
HE Kekang Instructional System Design HE Press
LI Mang Theories of Learning and Instruction HE Press
LI Mang Instructional Design BNU Press
WU Fati Design and Development of Online HE Press
Courses
 Internships & Further Projects

Post Doctorate
Students Innovation
Enterprise Cooperation

Young Teachers

Microsoft &Ministry of Education

Partners in Learning
 Training, Contests to improve
Teachers’ Information Literacy

Public
Service
Supplied Web-CL Instructional
Platform
To
Our
Campus

Teacher Education Support: Supply

Relate Curriculum to foster Future Teachers
4. International Exchanges
& Co-operations
 International Exchanges & Co-operations
Jeannie Oakes
International
Various from Ford Foundation
Project
International
Co-operations
Conferences

Academic
Exchanges
Undergraduates
Volunteers 在多伦多教育学院交流
of ICCE2006
5. Academic Research
 Scientific Papers & Treatises

• Teaching Achievement Prizes

Totally 7 provincial or ministerial achievement prize, 3 of them are national level.

• Papers
Totally 403 Papers, 3 SSCI retrieval, 2 SCI retrieval, 3 EI retrieval,196 CSSCI retrieval.

• Treatises & Textbooks

More than 50 treatises & textbooks.
 High
Frequency
Reference
http://www.cqvip.com/asp/zzpm.asp
Innovative Learning Support Tools

• WEBCL ：
Co-operative Learning Platform

• Analysis Toolkit ：
Knowledge Concept Tool

• VINCA Interactive Analysis Software

Knowledge Visual Intelligent
Content Analyzer

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 Landmark achievements: 
achievements:
4A On-line Learning Management System
More than 96 million Learning Card Registered in Higher Education Press
 Regional Education
Informationization Support System

现代信息 区域性教育 教育电子 信息技术与课程 农村现代远 运用信息技术深化 基础教育跨越

人才培养 资源整合 政务工程 的深层次整合 程教育工程 基础教育课程改革 式发展
• Teaching resources management
system
现代远程
应用推进与应用示范工程
• Developmental evaluation system
教育 教育技术服务与运营

英特尔® 教育网门户网站 现代远 教 • Video on demand system

程教育 育
未来教育

信息技术
校
园
教
局
育
综
中
、
虚
拟
网
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研
究
区
域
发
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网
络
分
布
学
科
视
音
课
堂
家
校
资源建
设技术
信
息 • Research study system
网 合 信 高 教 会 课程 性 性 性 远 式 网 频 互 互 化
及应用远 规范
程培训教
育工程
站
群
息
理
管
系
考
知
研
中
议
系
考试
系统
学
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网
络
教
学
程
教
资
源
站
群
点
播
动
教
联
系 教育信
政
策 • Educational information contents
统 识 心 统 系 图 评 学 网 系 学 统 息化标 、
骨干教师
库
系
统 书
馆
估
系
平
台
统 平
台
准体系 法
律
management system
教育技术
培训项目
统

公用教育资源
统
教育管
法
规 • On-line instruction support system
、
理信息
•
教师网络 管
教学联盟 系统规
范
理 On-line research and studies
项目 制

信息技术 网络课程库 教学资源库 教育管理信息库 教师教

度 system for teachers
与课程整 育技术
合网络培 应用标
教育信息中心—公共数据传输平台—校园网络—教育技术系统 准
训工程
 Important Research Projects

Important Projects

• National Strategical Toward

Needs Projects: International
1. ………… Breakthrough:
2. ………… 1.…………
3. ………… 2.…………
4. ………… 3.…………
5. ………… 4.…………
5.…………
THREE PROJECTS
Part 1

ICE in K12 Schools:

Innovative Exploration Trial on Frog-Leap

Development in Elementary Education
 Innovative Exploration Trial on Frog-
Leap Development in Elementary
Education

• 16 Project areas, 228 primary and secondary

schools, 50,000 students since September,
2000;
Test Zones
•Educational Technology Theories System
in a class by ourselves;
•The first test zone in Hongkong by Professor
HE Kekang in September,2006;
• 24 project schools in Singapore since 2008;
•Focus on Chinese, English and other
disciplines in elementary schools.
The project of utilizing education technology
to improve education quality of middle and
primary schools
Theory

Local
Training
Information
Services
Case & School
Public Research Services Based
Instruction、 Support Instructional
Annual Meeting Research
Coach
Instruction
in Locale

Instruction
al Case
Base
Vclass Web Based
Learning Tools\Resource
Excellent,Syn Training
Management support
chronous Course
System Instructioal
1:1 Learning in China
Singapore
HongKong
 In Rural
《农村中小学现代远程教育工
程试点工作方案》：计划用 5
年左右时间，为全国约 11 万个
农村小学教学点配备教学光盘
播放设备和成套教学光盘，向
这些教学点的约 510 万山村小
学生提供优质教育教学资源，
解决师资和教学质量较低的问
题；使全国 38.4 万所农村小学
初步建成卫星教学收视点，基
本满足农村 8142 万小学生对优
质教育教学资源的需求；使全
国 3.75 万所农村初中基本具备
计算机教室，使 3109 万农村初
中在校生能够与城镇初中生一
样，共享优质教育教学资源，
接受信息技术教育（教育
部， 2004 ）
Fenning in HeBei
 Set up Web-based long-distance teacher training and
instruction coach system ， explore a school & cased-based
research model and promotes teachers’ professional
development

Local Training

Case & School

Services
Public Research Based
Support
Instruction、 Instructional
Annual Meeting Research
Coach
Instruction in
Locale
Part 2

Seamless Connection ： Mobile

Storage Device Based Intelligent
Information Terminal
Using in Teacher Education
 Teacher Education Reform
• Government Policy ： Tuition –free for
Normal University Students (TFS)
• One of the Support Projects ：
– Teacher Education, Science and Innovation
Support System Based on IPv6 (The Next
Generation Internet Application and
Demonstration)
 Tuition -free Policy for Normal
University Students (TFS)
• Launched by Premier Wen Jiabao.
• Education majors at six Normal Universities will
have their tuition fees and other living
expenses covered during their undergraduate
studies in return for spending several years
teaching in the country's underdeveloped
western region.
• to encourage more elite young people to work
as teachers
 Teacher Education, Science and Innovation
Support System(TESISS)

• The TESISS will support both the learning in

university and the training on the job of the
students.
• Six universities will share one support system.
– System user numbers: 5 millions
– Support concurrent accesses: 2000
– Video playback support concurrent access number: 1000.
– The number of curriculum is expected to reach 300.
– Demonstrative course lessons: 450
– Data amount: 6TB .
– Single sign-on, high security.
 Project Objectives
• （ 1) to built Teacher Education Innovation Support System
Portal, implementing a user on a different system for single
sign-on to provide uniform access portal interface.
• （ 2) to built Teacher Education, Teaching and Research
Support System, emphasis on the provision of teachers
college students in reading website resources and
environment, provide for in-service education master's
degree distance learning resources and environment for
teachers to provide on-the-job training proposal resources for
learning and teacher education program me provides a
unique quality.
 Project Objectives
• （ 3) to built Teachers Education Practice Support System for
teachers education practice of education work experience
and training, micro-teaching and educational practice three
activities include professional digital support and innovative
education practice model to improve the quality of practice.
• （ 4) to built Evaluation System of Teacher Education,
monitoring and evaluation of the quality and basic education
teachers' professional development monitoring and
evaluation.
 Platform and System
1. Teacher Education Innovation Support System Portal
2. Teacher Education, Teaching and Research Support System
– Teachers tutoring System
– Teacher Education Distance Learning System
– Teachers Research and Studies Resource Centre
3. Teacher Education Practice Support System
– School Internship Remote Emulating system
– Micro-teaching Network Support System
– Remote Teaching Practice Guide System
4. Teacher Education Evaluation and Assessment System
 The Challenge of ICT in High
Education
• Increasing backbone bandwidth
• Faster and faster computer CPU speed
• Rapid development of carry-on store---low
prices, fast large capacity,
• More and more learning support system
• High cost of learning device management
 Seamless Connecting
• Using intelligent information terminal to
realize:
– Connect the students’ learning, resource, staff and
faculty, evaluation and assessment seamlessly;
– Get into the habit of e-learning approach.
 Mobile storage device based
intelligent information terminal
Download
USB
Time Division Shared

Upload

Separate terminal

LMS
USB
Shared Computing Device,
Personalized Learning
Environment.

Computer Lab. Classroom

Part 3

LEARNING RESOURCE DESIGN AND

SHARING IN UBIQUITOUS LEARNING
ENVIRONMENT
 Progresses of Learning Resource Sharing
Technologies
Reusable SCORM IMS LD
Learning Unit Learning objects Learning activities

Share of learning
content

Engineering methods and

standards for learning content
sharing
share of education strategies
and learning designs
Future path?
How to share generative information during learning process
How to evolve learning content to adapt to all personalized
demands?
How to share social cognition network as well as resources?
How to share interactive learning tools?
How to implement content aggregation based semantic technology?
How to relate learning processes?
•More aggregation ： form single resource to highly aggregated and complex resources
•Extending sharing scope ： from learning content to learning process and strategies
•Technology upgrades ： from static learning resources to learning tools & dynamic human wisdom sharing
 Ubiquitous Learning
• On demand: Anytime, Anywhere, Mobile…

But more:
• Social
• Situated
• Context awareness
• Adaptive
 Learning Resource Needed in
Ubiquitous Learning
• Anything about everything
• Adaptive: learning needs & all kinds of devices
• Collective intelligences
• Evolutive resources
• Situated Knowledge: help learner solve real
similar problems
 The Concept of ”Learning Cell”
• The meaning of “cell”
– Component: learning cells can compose higher-level
learning resources
– Origin : learning cells grow from small to big, from weak
to strong
– Nerve cell: unite to get intelligence
• Generative
• Connectivity
• Micro-granularity
• Evolvable
• Cohesive
• Intelligent
• Social
• Open, communicates with other resources
• Adaptive to multiple end-devices and platforms
 Features of “Learning Cell”(1)
• Learning cell is structural knowledge network
– Interior ： integrate content, activities and practices
with extensible knowledge representation model
– Exterior ： different learning cells interact to build up
a larger knowledge network
– Using semantic technology to represent, inquiry and
reasoning knowledge
• From resource organization to knowledge
organization; From linear tree-form structure to
network structure
 Features of “Learning Cell”(2)
• Relate physical resources to human resources
– Describe users and editors in LCs, making LMSs share social
network as well as physical resources through sharing LCs
between cross-domain systems
• Micro-granularity
– Knowledge attributes can be inquired and shared
• Runtime information communication through
open services
– “Learning cell” is open structured, and can communicate with
other applications and share information
– Resource sharing over organizations and systems
 Features of “Learning Cell”(3)
• The evolution of resources
– Elements of learning cells include current version
information, editing process description(e.g.: notes or
revisions) and past versions.
– The evolution and development is not aimlessly ,but in a
structured and aggregated way, which is related to the
interior knowledge structure model
• The growth of resources
– Save procedural information when learning resources are
used.
– E.g. discussion records in BBS, practice feedback, and
evaluation results.
 the Growth of Knowledge

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——the Growth of Knowledge
 Gene of “learning cell”
• Semantic model for disciplinary knowledge
– Knowledge relation
• Upper-basic
• Part-whole
• predecessor-posterity
• foundation-development
• equivalence
• correlation
– extensible
– Reasoning foundation
 Co-editing, Editing
Learning activities, Activity
records Assessment
records
Communication service, records
Test & Assessment
Metadata,
aggregation model

Knowledg content
e
ontology practice

Multiple Service interface

assessmen format
activiti Sharable
t es learning
Generative resources
information

Usage
records

Learning cells stored Learning

in cloud-computing community

Generative

environment information
 Glacier Model
of” learning cell”
 2.Running time environment based cloud-
n to 1 learning computing technology provides service
according to user’s request:
– The most suited content
– Related content
– Usage records of the learning content
– Evaluation records of the learning content
– Editing records of the learning content
– Tools for the learning content

4.Though the Learning services interface, connect

with:
– Other learners who use the same learning

services
content
– Experts that edit the content
– Join the activities for the learning content
Learning – Then absorb experience, build learning relation,
form learning community, promote multiple
service
evolution and development of learning cells
interface

3. Send back the learning cell and

related information

1. Users choose a learning cell to start learning process

 Run-time Environment of
“Learning Cell”
Terminals
“Learning cell” underlying environment
Information Location resource Resource
transmission database
PC
controller
information
Detect inf. Resource index
Information materials
Receive inf. Resource search
dispatch
Request Universal network Analyze inf. Resource location Resource search
PDA

Resource
history
Learning cell
Public terminal extraction
Wireless Internet Active adaper Learning cell runs
Network Learning
Grow Divide cells

Device type API API

White board Responce Display adaper Screen size Learning
User
Screen resolution Cell Trace API Learning cell informatio
transmission storage n

Smart phone
Learning service interface
Learning Learning Learning Learning Learning Learning Semantic
... tools community content activity assessment records relation
Mobile TV
...
 Architecture
Aggregate to Course
Create

Back to
Content Learning cell
Create Storage Learning Cell
Edit tools Repository Call

Learning Environment

Connecting

Inquire & Learn

Recording
Learning Portfolio Learning Interactive

Learning Tools
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