Effects of Project-Based Learning on Teachers’ Information Teaching Sustainability and Ability

He-Hai Liu,Qi Wang,Liang Zhou,Yu-Sheng Su

doi:10.3390/su11205795

Abstract

In the context of the Internet for education, informatized teaching has become the most basic and critical ability of teachers. The application of advanced information technology in education means that the improvement in teaching ability requires instructors to better utilize teaching and learning opportunities. Project-based learning is an inquiry-based learning method that embodies learning by doing. With respect to the training of informatization teaching for pre-service teachers, we choose three aspects: information-based instructional design, information-based teaching resource integration, and information-based teaching evaluation, respectively, from PowerPoint (PPT) skills, multimedia courseware production, and micro lectures. This study explores three experimental projects and undertakes detailed empirical growth research on the cultivation of pre-service teachers. We were able to enhance the informatization teaching design ability of pre-service teachers with the training of PPT skills. In this experiment, we found that integration of information-based teaching resources can be improved by the integration of multimedia courseware production. Information teaching evaluation can be improved through micro lecture production. The mechanism provides a more feasible and practical strategy for the training of pre-service teachers in their informatization teaching ability.

Highlights

With the continuous development of the Internet for education, the cultivation concept, teaching mode, and educational media have seen different degrees of innovation and development globally, which moves education into a new stage of ‘informatization education’ [1]
Learners reached the predetermined learning goal. They could complete the information-based instructional design, develop instructional resources according to the instructional design, and implement the class application
They could make reasonable and stable evaluations of informatized instructional design, teaching resources, and teaching processes based on standards

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Introduction

With the continuous development of the Internet for education, the cultivation concept, teaching mode, and educational media have seen different degrees of innovation and development globally, which moves education into a new stage of ‘informatization education’ [1]. China has developed an outline of national long-term education reform with a development plan which is aimed at promoting educational reform, encouraging teachers to carry out informatized teaching activities, and to realize the goal of promoting education reform and innovative education. It is undoubtedly important to improve teachers’ information literacy and cultivate teaching staff in the current teacher education system in China [2]. Markham et al (2003) [3] believed that project-based learning is an instructional mode where students carry out extended open exploration after carefully designing activities aimed at real-world situations, with the ultimate goal of constructing the meaning of knowledge and improving their own ability. Wei (2011) [4] believed that project-based learning is a new type of inquiry learning mode that centers on the concept and principle of disciplines, aims at creating works and selling them, carries out inquiry activities with the help of various resources in the real world, and solves a series of interrelated problems within a certain time period

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