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Design and Evaluation of Micro-class Based on WeChat Public Platform

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Vocational education, as an important part of Chinese education system, possesses great demands for informatization in teaching, learning and creative exploring, which meanwhile enjoys great prospects. How to develop informatization in vocational education has become one of the issues that must be solved in current Chinese education system. Taking the course of Mother and Baby Caregiver in vocational education and training as an example, this paper analyzes and summarizes characteristics of adult learners and learners who participate in vocational training based on the adult learning theory from the aspects of learners’ background and their psychology. Modular teaching and participatory teaching methods are adopted to prepare for the content and resources for these micro-courses, of which recording, editing, releasing and testing are operated. Finally, this paper explores the learning effects of micro-learning courses from three aspects with the method of comparative analysis: micro-teaching design, micro-class learning effects and micro-teaching experience. Feedback on micro-courses from questionnaires and interviews of students and teachers are well collected to improve the study.

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  1. School of Information, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, 650500, China

    Nan Zhang & Min Xie

  2. Graduate Faculty, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, 650500, China

    Tianwei Xu

  3. Key Laboratory of Education Informatization for Nationalities, Ministry of Education, Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, 650500, China

    Juxiang Zhou

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  1. Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin, China

    Guanglu Sun

  2. Yunnan Normal University, Kunming, China

    Jianhou Gan

  3. Hunan Normal University, Hunan, China

    Shuai Liu

  4. Harbin University, Harbin, China

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  5. Institute of Data Science, National Academy of Guo Ding, Harbin, China

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Zhang, N., Xu, T., Zhou, J., Xie, M. (2019). Design and Evaluation of Micro-class Based on WeChat Public Platform. In: Sun, G., Gan, J., Liu, S., Lang, F., Lu, Z. (eds) e-Learning, e-Education, and Online Training. eLEOT 2019. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 299. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35095-6_10

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