建構另類網際網路遠距教學模式的迷思

本文所提及的另類遠距教學活動，指的是教師與學習者藉由電腦網路與資訊傳播科技的使用，突破時間與空間限制，以進行學習和雙向溝通的教育模式。從另一角度加以思考，這些新科技所衛生的多元化、質性化的教學通路，對於真正的學習者而言，是否受益，或僅是建建立另一種資訊傳輸上的差異與權威感，的確頗值得加以省思。
傳播與通訊科技的進步，有助於減低文化與知識的孤立主義；另一方面，傳播科技的進步，有助於少數弱勢族群的文化自覺；因為大眾傳播媒體通路使得人類發現自己與別人之相異處。然而，大眾傳播媒介與文化「整合理論（integrated theory）」之中心思想，應建立在資訊的交流之自主環境，絕不是基於推動科技決定論的單向思考，形成另一種資訊的操縱與階級化的學習。就上述的背景，本文擬以下列三大面向加以探討。
1. 剖析網際網路遠距學，以及與傳統媒介的比較分析。
2. 對於網際網路遠距教學之學習情境的再思考。
3. 遠距教學公共領域與資訊再宰制的反思。

The distance learning in this paper is about the instruction model which through computer network and information transmission, instructors and learners could learn and make two-way communication despite the limitations of time and space. Deliberating from another point of view, do students really benefit from this diverse approach derived from new technology, or it simply brings a difference or authority on information transmission, that is actually the matter we should give a deep through about.
Advanced communication technology brings down the isolation of culture and knowledge. On the other hand, it helps o build self awareness on minority groups people find themselves different from each other though mass media. However, the main idea of Integrated Theory of mass media and culture should base on an independent environment of information exchange instead of a one-way thinking that promotes technology determinism, and creates another kind of information manipulation and learning with class differentiation. From the above, this paper explores the following three aspects:
1. To analyze web-based learning and to compare it with traditional media.
2. To think over the instruction model of web-based learning.
3. To self-examine on the public sphere and information control of web-based learning.