Abstract:

The impact of information technology on social development is thorough and profound, and education circle is no exception. Our age has proposed new requirements to higher education as well as various possibilities to its revolution and development. Now is a turning point of educational informationization when infrastructure construction has made great achievements, and in-depth application, concept shifting and teaching reform are under way. Based on an investigation of student role in cyberspace in Southwest Petroleum University, we make an analysis of the teaching reform in petroleum universities in answer to the change of times from the viewpoint of informationization. By raising questions and proposing problem-solving ideas, we hope to provide a reference for the educational informationization in universities.

Key words: teaching reform in petroleum universities, student role in cyberspace, education informationization, life-wide learning, cyberspace natives