Research on Evaluation Model for Interactive Classroom Enabled with Mobile Terminals

Abstract

ICT in Education has become a strategic supporting force for the reform and development of national education. In this period, the most important thing to do is to recognize, understand and construct an "ICT-enabled Classroom" which means transforming the traditional classrooms into interactive learning environment. With increasingly more mobile terminals being employed in educational context, teaching has undergone great changes, which makes it as one key issue to construct, develop and apply a new classroom evaluation model so as to foster the ICT in Education in China. The purpose of this design-based study is to develop an initial "TPOCME Deep Classroom" model (TPOCME, Higher-order Thinking, Classroom Participation, Openness of Educational System, Cooperative Learning, Meaningful Learning, Effectiveness of Technology Use), to evaluate a classroom in ICT-enriched environment through four-round iterative processes. It can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of technology integration in classroom teaching and help educators to have a profound and comprehensive understanding of the integration of ICT in education in mobile Internet era.