Infusing Computer Networking Technology into Education: Current Perspectives of Educational Technology and Self-Efficacy in Distance Education

摘要

Many educational workers are considering the use of technology-based distance learning system to meet those needs. By using the following five computer technologies delivery tools: 1) ISDN-based videoconferencing, 2) the compressed video/audio recording, 3) the Internet, 4) the World-Wide Web, and 5) the electronic mail, a multimedia distance education system will be established between countries throughout the world. All of the constructional phases of a combined distance learning system are highly interactive; each has an impact on the others. Likewise, information of target students feedback obtained from an evaluation phase will have a direct influence on how future iterations of the distance learning media are designed and carried out. Based on an existing experimental combined computer-technology distance learning system between the College of Pharmacy of NSU, Florida and the National Defense Medical College, Taiwan, the goal of the research is develop a set of quantitative metric to evaluate the distance learning system. A fifty-five-item questionnaire will be filled out by all target students. The contribution of this evaluation is not only to elicit reactions from target students for systems satisfaction levels and educational delivery problems, but to give the researcher critical strengths or weaknesses on the useful and appropriate guidelines for future distance learning system reforming.