On the Use of Digital Historical and Cultural Resources in University Course: Taking the Chinese and Foreign Education History Course for Primary Education Specialty as an Example

Abstract

As a compulsory course of primary education specialty in university, the reform of Chinese and foreign education history course is imminent. Under the background of the increasingly abundant digital historical and cultural resources, the position of digital historical and cultural resources in Chinese and foreign education history course for primary education specialty has been gradually improved. Effective use of digital historical and cultural resources has become a hotspot in Chinese and foreign education history course for primary education specialty, thus changing the role and orientation of teacher and student in the learning process. 1. Necessity of Using Digital Historical and Cultural Resources The development of information technology, especially network information technology, has brought tremendous changes in human life, learning and working methods. The Outline of National Medium and Long Term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020) has proposed that "we should strengthen the application of information technology, improve the level of teachers’ application of information technology, renew the teaching concepts, improve the teaching methods and improve the teaching effect", "encourage students to use information means to learn actively and independently, and enhance the ability to use information technology for problem solving and analysis". In addition, The Outline of National Medium and Long Term Education Reform and Development Plan (2010-2020) also advocates strengthening the development and application of high-quality education resources, requires "strengthening the construction of network teaching resources system", "introduces international high-quality digital teaching resources", "develop network learning courses", "establishing digital libraries and virtual reality laboratory", "establishing an open and flexible public service platform for educational resources", "promoting the universal sharing of high-quality educational resources". [1] Historical and cultural resources are created and rendered by people all over the world in social practice. They carry advanced cultures in different historical periods with different carriers. It includes two aspects of material civilization and spiritual civilization and it is the precious material wealth and spiritual wealth of people all over the world. The Chinese and foreign education history course for primary education specialty is based on the development of educational undertakings all over the world, involving various kinds of historical and cultural resources. However, these contents are often scattered all over the world, and a large number of these resources are difficult to obtain. As a result, the teaching of Chinese and foreign education history course for primary education specialty is often limited to the content of books, so how to effectively develop these historical and cultural resources has become a challenging problem. Digital historical and cultural resources will combine digitalization with historical and cultural resources organically, which will address the issue of lack of historical and cultural resources in the Chinese and foreign education history course for primary education specialty. The introduction to digital historical and cultural resources into the teaching of Chinese and foreign education history course for primary education specialty can not only provide an 2nd International Conference on Humanities Education and Social Sciences (ICHESS 2019) Copyright © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research, volume 369