The Design and Application of Primary and Secondary Teacher Training Oriented Micro-Course

Yi Wei, Yimeng Yang, Xueqing Zeng, Liang Yu

Department of Computer and Information Science, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.

DOI: 10.4236/ce.2015.68074                

Abstract

With the “Micro-era” coming, micro-course becomes a new popular course form because it is short, small, refined, and efficient with various teaching methods and wide fields. Using micro-course in teacher training can adapt to teachers’ learning features and meet their development demands. The quality of micro-course design decides the effectiveness of training. This paper presents the learning features and requirements of primary and secondary teachers as well as the superiorities of micro-course application, builds primary and secondary teacher training oriented micro-course design mode, and uses a series of micro-courses “Tutoring Teaching in the Multimedia Environment” of “National Training Program (2014)”—rural primary and secondary teacher distance training program in Guizhou province as an example to verify the mode.

Keywords

Teacher Training, Micro-Course, Micro-Course Design

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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