Teacher’s Opinions on the Cloud Classroom

DOI

10.2991/meess-18.2018.38How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Computer-assisted teaching, cloud services, cloud classroom, classroom layout.

Abstract

In college students and faculty are eager to quickly access and getting information via internet wherever they are. In order to satisfy diverse teaching-learning needs, constructing cloud classroom is popular in colleges of China nowadays. However, what a kind of cloud classroom is really suitable for needs of teaching and learning, and what user’s attitude is should be studied. The purpose of the study is to explore what teacher attitude is after they used the particular cloud classroom. And how they comment on the cloud classroom. 20 teachers from English major were interviewed and participated questionnaire survey. Some findings were gotten: 1) cloud classroom with no student PC and circular table-chair layout are appropriate to having language course. 2) Teacher like to have classes in cloud classroom, compared with in conventional classroom, and there is no difference of attitude between male and female teachers. According to teachers’ comments on cloud classroom, the further study will explore how to reduce these shortcomings and build better cloud classrooms whether from hardware or from software.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Xiaoqin Shi
AU  - Yanjun Yin
PY  - 2018/08
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BT  - Proceedings of the 2018 International Conference on Management, Economics, Education and Social Sciences (MEESS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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