In the era of knowledge economy, developed countries attach great importance to the construction of educational informatization and have built their own modern educational information networks. Over the years, the governments and educational departments of western countries, represented by the United States, Japan and Britain, have been actively pursuing the development strategy of educational informatization and have achieved gratifying results.
America: Take the lead in implementing educational informatization
As the world's largest economic power, the United States has been at the forefront in the development of information technology. From 65438 to 0993, the Clinton administration of the United States put forward the "National Information Infrastructure" plan, began to develop a comprehensive information service system with the Internet as the core, promoted the application of information technology in all aspects of society, and regarded information technology as an important way to implement the education reform oriented to 2 1 century. By 2003, the U.S. government and its related scientific research institutions had made dozens of educational technology policy reports, most of which contained suggestions on educational informatization, and actively urged the government to improve the information hardware infrastructure, develop information resources and software, support teachers' professional development, increase investment in educational informatization, and strengthen the research and evaluation of educational informatization. At present, the construction of educational informatization in the United States has reached a fairly high level. The network penetration rate of universities, middle schools and primary schools in China is high, with advanced equipment and wide application. Many schools use information technology to reduce students' academic burden and improve their learning efficiency, comprehensive quality, innovation ability and information literacy, which has been widely recognized by the society. The educational informatization strategy implemented by the United States has become an example for all countries in the world to follow. Many countries actively formulate strategic plans for educational informatization and vigorously promote the process of educational informatization construction in their own countries.
Japan: Multi-pronged implementation of educational informatization
The concept of informatization originated in Japan. As early as 1960s, Japanese scholars put forward a new theory reflecting the stage of social development from the perspective of the evolution of social industrial structure, which included the concept of informatization. In the process of promoting education informatization in Japan, Japan has taken many effective measures, such as promoting policies, infrastructure construction, and information education in schools, and achieved good results. In terms of policy promotion, from 1992 to 2002, Japan's Ministry of Education formulated and issued the implementation plan of education informatization five times, which greatly accelerated the integration process of information technology and education in Japanese schools. In terms of infrastructure construction, Japan started with 1994. In order to achieve the set goal of educational informatization, the government has increased its investment, which has effectively promoted the construction process of school computer infrastructure and the Internet, and even created an environment where teachers and students of all grades can communicate with each other through the Internet. Japan plans that by the end of 20 10, 100% of households will have built a high-speed and efficient information internet. In terms of information education in schools, Japan attaches great importance to information education, offering elective courses of "Information Basis" and "Information Processing" in middle schools and compulsory courses of "Information Technology" in high schools. Japan also attaches great importance to the development of electronic digital teaching materials, actively integrates information technology with courses, and attaches importance to the cultivation of teachers' information education skills. These measures have greatly promoted the process of educational informatization construction in Japan.
Britain: Legislation to Promote Education Informatization Construction
Britain is an economically developed country, which is famous for its strategic vision and innovative and pragmatic strategies in the field of information education. 1998, British legislation changed all the original elective courses in primary and secondary schools nationwide into compulsory courses, and drew up nine standards for the evaluation of information technology courses in middle schools. Of the government's investment in education, the statutory 6% must be used as the computer purchase fee earmarked by the school to ensure that more than 20% of primary and secondary schools can access the Internet. Since the end of the last century, Britain has given full play to its comprehensive national strength, increased funding and research and development, vigorously strengthened the construction of information infrastructure, and actively exerted the talent advantage of information education, which has promoted the improvement of the level of education informatization. British National Learning Network is the largest educational portal in Europe, with powerful search function. Britain has promoted the construction of educational informatization through legislation, which has made Britain take a solid step in building a learning society through information technology. At the same time, the development of education industrialization in Britain largely benefits from the improvement of its educational informatization level. In 2000, the "industrial university" operated by the British government with the help of information technology completely changed people's learning methods, and combined the needs of learners with the supply of various educational resources in a timely and effective manner. This learning network consists of learning centers all over the country, which are distributed reasonably. It is a new organization that faces the learning needs of all people and provides the most suitable learning resources for all learners, which has greatly promoted the construction of a lifelong learning society in Britain.
Generally speaking, the construction of educational informatization in foreign countries presents the following development trends: from attaching importance to education and management to attaching importance to the improvement of students' autonomous learning ability; Return from attaching importance to information technology to attaching importance to educational standards; From attaching importance to hardware construction to application construction; Pay more attention to improving the intelligence of educational information system and educational software.