Construction and Application of Online “Golden Course” Teaching Performance Evaluation Index System from the Perspective of Connectivism ()
1. Introduction
In the current research on the reform of the curriculum system in the field of higher education, the construction of “golden courses” once jumped to become a hot topic. The Ministry of Education clearly stated that it is necessary to reasonably increase the difficulty of courses, expand the depth of courses, expand the selectivity of courses, and turn “water courses” into “golden courses” with depth, difficulty and challenge (Liu & Li, 2019). In the era of huge fragmented knowledge, complex information, and rapidly updated networks, Connectivism believes that learning is a process of connecting and forming networks, and that knowledge paths are far more important than knowledge content (Wu, 2021). Teaching performance evaluation is one of the important components of curriculum and teaching reform. Effective teaching performance evaluation can promote teachers’ professional development and growth, stimulate teachers’ professional consciousness and subject consciousness, and then improve teachers’ teaching quality, efficiency and level. At present, the research on “golden courses” only stays at the theoretical level, and there is no scientific and feasible analysis and research on the teaching performance evaluation index system of “golden courses”.
2. Keyword Definition
2.1. Connectivism Learning Theory
Simmons positions the Connectivist learning theory as a learning theory in the digital age, which is proposed in response to the networked characteristics of the age. This theory views learning as a process of connection and network formation, and is best suited to learning in complex and rapidly changing fields (Tao & Jiang, 2021). In connectivism learning, students are able to form connections, gradually comprehend and maintain dialogue. For teachers, the main roles are as follows: masterminding, aggregation, filtering, and persistence.
2.2. Online “Golden Course”
The Ministry of Education proposed the golden class standard of “one degree of gender”, that is, high-level, innovative and challenging (Li, 2018). From the perspective of teaching and learning, the construction of online “golden lessons” not only plays the leading role of teachers in the teaching process, but also mobilizes the enthusiasm and creativity of students for autonomous learning, thereby optimizing teaching effects, improving teachers’ teaching level (Liu, Chen, & Liu, 2017).
2.3. Teaching Performance Evaluation
In “Educational Technology and Educational Innovation—The Theory, System and Practice of Performance Evaluation”, Prof. Zhu Zhiting et al. defined performance as the behavioral tendency and performance achievement consistent with the overall goal and value pursuit of the organization (Zhu, 2011). Teaching performance evaluation is a process of giving a comprehensive and systematic evaluation of relevant content in accordance with the corresponding criteria and indicators, using practical and scientific evaluation methods, and taking online “golden courses” as the evaluation object.
3. Research Content
On the basis of Connectivist learning theory and performance theory, the first and second indexes in the index system are established through literature review, questionnaire survey and expert interviews, etc., and the evaluation index system of online “golden class” teaching performance evaluation system is adopted by using the analytic hierarchy process. The weight of each level index item finally determines the online “golden course” teaching performance evaluation index system.
According to the constructed online “golden course” teaching performance evaluation index system, the students of the national excellent online open course “Drilling and Completion Engineering” course of Southwest Petroleum University were selected as the research objects, and an empirical study was carried out on the course to verify its relevance, and based on the results of the case study, the conclusion-level suggestions for the application of the evaluation index system are put forward.
4. Research Ideas
For the teaching performance evaluation of online “golden courses” in colleges and universities, it is necessary to establish and improve the evaluation standards and systems, and it is necessary to combine the concepts and characteristics of online learning and the learning methods of learners to evaluate, not only play the leading role of teachers in the teaching process, but also play a role in the teaching process. It is necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm and creativity of students for independent learning, realize the organic combination of quantitative and qualitative assessment, and establish a scientific and perfect online “golden course” teaching performance evaluation index system. The research idea of this study is shown in the Figure 1 below.
5. Research Methods
5.1. Literature Research Method
Literature research refers to a research method that can retrieve, identify, organize and summarize literature. After reviewing a large number of literatures on Connectivism, online “golden course” teaching performance evaluation index system and other related aspects, and sorting out the research status at home and
Figure 1. Research ideas on the teaching performance evaluation index system of online “golden courses” based on the perspective of connectivism.
abroad, the aim is to build an online “golden class” under the guidance of Connectivism learning theory and performance theory. Class teaching performance evaluation index system.
5.2. Investigation and Research Method
The method of asking questions and conducting research by systematically collecting materials related to the actual situation or historical situation related to the research object is called the research method. In this study, the weights of the evaluation index system were calculated by using the AHP method by conducting questionnaire surveys or interviews with experts and learners, and in the empirical analysis, the national high-quality online open course “Drilling and Completion Engineering” of Southwest Petroleum University was used in this study. The students conducted a questionnaire survey to verify the science, rationality and operability of the online “Golden Course” teaching performance evaluation index system.
5.3. Analytic Hierarchy Process
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) first decomposes complex problems into several constituent factors, and then divides several constituent factors into minutes according to the dominance relationship, thereby forming a hierarchical structure. The overall ranking of the relative importance of the final decision-making scheme is obtained by synthesizing the judgment of the decision-maker (Liu, Chen, & Liu, 2017). This research adopts the analytic hierarchy process to obtain the weight distribution, and constructs an online “golden course” teaching performance evaluation index system.
6. Results and Discussions
1) At present, the research on online “golden courses” has paid more attention to the theoretical basis research, application model research, utility analysis and research status review, but the research on teaching performance evaluation is not perfect. Course teaching performance evaluation, determine evaluation indicators, build an evaluation system, and provide advanced theoretical support and evaluation standards for the construction of online “golden courses”.
2) This study adopts Likert scale and AHP to change the standard of online “golden course” teaching performance evaluation from qualitative research to quantitative research, reduce human subjectivity, and combine relevant theoretical foundations to highlight online “golden courses”. The objectivity and scientificity of the evaluation index system of teaching performance of “class”.
3) Based on the theory of connectivism, this study analyzes the online “golden course” from seven aspects: knowledge view, learning view, curriculum view, teacher view, student view, environment view, and interaction view. Form a learning network formation process, focusing on the connection of external knowledge sources.
7. Summary
Most of the teaching performance evaluation indicators of online “golden courses” belong to moderation indicators. Later research and practice should further innovate the original data processing method of moderation indicators, determine the evaluation standards of moderation indicators, and improve the accuracy and stability of teaching performance evaluation results (Liu, Mao, & Wang, 2019). The conclusions of this research could be the basis of the evaluation logic, the evaluation operation, and the questionnaire standards. Moreover, the teaching performance evaluation mechanisms and the evaluation promotional plans could be developed to accelerate the deployment of new evaluation model.
Fund
2021 Annual Project of the Fourteenth Five Year Plan for the Research on Educational Information Technology in Sichuan Province (CJG grant No. [2021]235). This study was supported by Sichuan Province 2021-2023 Higher Education Talent Training Quality and Teaching Reform Project (grant No. JG2021-557); The Ministry of Education’s industry-university cooperative education project (grant No. 202102070132); Sichuan Province 2021-2023 Higher Education Talent Training Quality and Teaching Reform Project (grant No. JG2021-178); Educational Informatization Project of Sichuan Higher Education Society (grant No. GJXHXXH21-ZD-03).