远程教学的时间管理：弹性多一些还是严格多一些

Rethinking Time Management of Online Instruction:Flexible or Strict

在远程教学实践中，管理者或助学者总会对学习者的学习时间给出这样或那样的要求，但与面授教学相比，远程教学的时间管理具有相当大的弹性，且其责任主要由学习者个人来承担。然而，当前远程教育中学习者自律能力不足、反馈交流不及时，以及助学教师工作量大等方面的问题使得我们有必要反思常规的时间管理方法。本文将重点介绍一个"不走寻常路"的远程助学案例，其时间管理方式严格，且取得了相当好的助学效果。在案例研究的基础上，本文论证了严格的时间管理在提高支持服务的主动性，帮助学习者形成学习节奏、养成学习习惯，以及规范助学教师工作等方面所具有的优势，并探讨了实施严格时间管理的支持条件。

Contrasting to face to face instruction, online instruction's time management is quite flexible and the learners take main responsibility to control their own learning time. Confronting with the facts that most learners' weak selfcontrol ability, delayed communication feedback, and uncontrolled facilitators' workload, it is time for us to rethink current time management. This paper introduced a successful online facilitating case. It had very strict time management principles and gained excellent results. Based on the case study, this paper argued that " strict" time management will help educators to enhance learners' involvement, discussion effectiveness and facilitators' management. The supporting conditions to implement " strict" time management were also discussed.