玛雅 本茨

Maya Bentz

经历

  • （前苏联）第比利斯国立大学毕业，在该大学完成硕士学业，获得理学硕士学位；在（美国）哥伦比亚大学教育学院完成硕士学业，获得艺术硕士学位；在哥伦比亚大学教育学院完成博士学业，获得教育学博士学位
  • 普渡大学客座研究员，哥伦比亚大学教育学院远程教育国际项目协调员
 

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多年以来，计算机一直用作教育工具。如今，计算机广泛应用于从幼儿园到研究生院的所有教育机构。可以将未来的教育场景设想为一种3D环境，学生可以在线浏览资料，可以与同伴互动并专心学习和研究。但是，到目前为止，由于引入和维护成本以及系统功能的局限性，这种虚拟现实技术（VR，Virtual Reality）系统对于教育的影响力很有限。尽管存在这些问题，互联网上仍然出现了各种3D学习环境，学生可以在其中与虚拟老师互动、上3D课和创建课题等。如今，VR已经广泛用于娱乐、计算机游戏和国防工业。大多数学生通过视频游戏接触VR，有些学校在历史、科学、语言和艺术等教学中使用VR。3D VR学习环境可以引导学生进入超越课本的虚拟世界。

我的研究领域是电子学习、课件和Web开发工具、交互式教育应用程序以及3D VR。在本校，我负责教育用应用程序的教学设计、VR学习环境开发、电子学习系统测试和评估以及电子学习系统收益和成本评估讲座。如今，电子学习系统已成为许多企业一种重要的内部教育工具。远程教学商务中的教学/设计，必将是商务人士的必备技能。

担当科目

  • 远程教学商务中的教学/设计

成果

学术论文

  • “The Role of Associative Experiment in Teaching Languages”，Master of Science, Thesis, Tbilisi State Pedagogical University, Georgia, 1983
  • “Revealing of Words Associative Links as a Tool for Teaching Students the foreign languages”, Tbilisi: University Press, 1987
  • “The Gifted Child”，Tbilisi: Informatica, 1993
  • “Development of Learner's Creative Abilities” Paper presented at Conference “Tradition and Reformist Pedagogy in Georgia”, Tbilisi: Georgia, 1996
  • “Theory and Practice of Teaching: Training and Assessment Strategies”, Tbilisi: Pedagogica, 1999
  • “Leadership and Georgian Women”, Tbilisi: Mecniereba, 1999
  • “Learning Through Archetypal Symbolic Images: The Role of Fairy Tales, Myths, and Arts”, Ed.D. Thesis, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2002

Presentations and Articles

  • “Gifted Education”, Purdue University, 1994
  • “Development of Learner's Creative Abilities”, Tbilisi State Pedagogical University, 1996
  • “East-West:Educational Reforms”, Stuttgart University, Germany, 1997
  • “Higher Education Reformation in the Post-Soviet Era”, The Open Society Institute, 1997
  • “The Role of Higher Education Administration in the Newly Independent Countries”, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1997
  • “Computers in Education: Myth and Reality”, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1998
  • “E-learning and Adult Education”, Teachers College, Columbia University，1998
  • “21 Century University”, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1998
  • “E-Learning in East European Countries”, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2002
  • “E-learning Instructional Design”, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2002
  • “Website Development and Design for E-learning”, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2003
  • “Blackboard for E-Learners, Instructors, and Administrators”, Teachers College, Columbia University/The Open Society Institute, Budapest, 2003
  • “Blackboard for E-Learners: Problems and Solutions”, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2003