RAPSODY: distance ecological model for self- and collaborative-learning

With the development of information technology, it is a fact that computer and information communication literacy has become extremely important, and is the new ability required from teachers. Therefore, for enhancing their teaching skills and information literacy about the Internet environment with multimedia, a new teachers' education framework is necessary. The purpose of this study is to propose and develop a distance educational model, which is a school-based curriculum development and training system (RAPSODY). In this environment, a teacher can learn subject contents, teaching knowledge, and evaluation methods of the students' learning activities, related to the new subject called "Information", via an Internet based self-training system.