Applied Modes and Current Problems of e-Learning in the Primary and Secondary Schools of China
Pin Gong · International Journal of e-Education e-Business e-Management and e-Learning · 2014
Technological development makes it possible for construction of the learning society and lifelong learning. In China, e-learning has been applying in basic education as an assistant method more or less and changes the traditional primary and secondary school education. The study focuses on its development and how it is applied in the primary and secondary classroom teaching and analyzes the existing problems, the characters and the restricted factors in its application. Among the three existing applied modes, assisted mode, substituted mode and blended mode, the assisted mode is most widely used in Chinese basic education. Those network schools surviving in the fierce competition support the application of the assisted mode. The factors like the extra financial burden, the efficient involvement of parents and the conflict between the limited after-class time and the large body of learning contents impact on the quality of e-learning in such mode. Enhancing the teachers' abilities of e-learning and increasing the in-class teaching quality could be a potential shortcut.