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3. Stage Three: Individualized and can also join in activities such as forum
Smart Learning interaction, wiki creation, questionnaires
Due to technological development and surveys, ballots, and peer evaluation.
bottlenecks, early learning management With the support of various types
systems were dominated by one-way of activities, interaction between
information output. The interaction teachers and students and between
between learners and teachers, as well students themselves have both been
as the interaction between learners strengthened.
were largely ignored. Learners also had
little access to individualized support. Figure 3
With the arrival of Web 3.0, learning Learning Web Page of the OUC Learning
management is also becoming more Network
intelligent. Supported by big data and
learning analysis technology, now,
learning management systems can
evaluate learners’ learning status by
collecting and analyzing their features and
behavioral data, and make corresponding
proposals or pushing out relevant
resources. Teachers, the other subject
of the learning management system, can
also identify students’ existing problems
and adjust their teaching strategies in
line with the learning dashboard data
provided by the system (Yuan et al., A review of the development of the open
2014). and distance education and teaching
system in China from the perspective of
Take the OUC’s learning management technology shows that the innovative
system as an example (as shown in application of technology has played an
Figure 4-1). This learning management essential role in updating the teaching
system was established on the basis of system. At the same time, more and
existing open-source platform Moodle. more attention has been paid to a
It supports course development under learner-centered philosophy, which is
the guidance of the theory of social manifested in multiple practical ways
constructivism. Teachers can arrange during the course of the development of
teaching contents and develop learning the teaching system.
activities according to the characteristics
of the courses and the need for learning.
In addition to studying course contents
and completing assignments, learners

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