【作 者】：
许亚锋， 姚 军
【关 键 词 】：
在线教育； 教育公平； 学习机会； 学习动机； 自我感知受益
【栏 目】：
理论探讨
【中文摘要】：
在线教育以低成本、覆盖范围广、时空限制少等优势使其具备缩小教育差距、促进教育公平的潜力，但当前的大多数实证研究结果都未能支持该观点。为进一步丰富该领域的研究成果，本文基于网络公选课这一特定在线教育形态，探究不同社会群体在网络公选课学习中的差异。研究发现，男生、汉族学生、城市生源学生、父亲相对高学历者等社会优势群体更可能参加网络公选课的学习，并且汉族以及城市生源学生的自我感知受益要高于少数民族和农村生源学生，男生比女生更可能以寻求挑战和寻找乐趣作为参加网络公选课的主要学习动机，汉族学生比少数民族学生更可能以寻找乐趣作为主要动机。这说明，网络公选课这种在高校里普遍应用的在线教育形式，尽管确实让更多的学生得以接触到了丰富的教育资源，但却并没有更多地使不同社会阶层特别是处于弱势的学生群体受益。
【英文摘要】：
Online education has the potential to narrow the gap in education and promote education equity with the advantages of low cost, wide coverage and less time and space limit, but most current empirical studies fail to support this point. In order to further enrich the research in this field, this paper explores the differences of different social groups in online public elective courses. The study finds that social superiority groups, such as boys, Han students, urban students, and fathers with higher academic degrees, are more likely to participate in online public elective courses. And self-perceived benefit of Han students and urban students is higher than that of minority students and rural students. In addition, compared with girls, boys are more likely to consider seeking challenges and fun as the main motivation for taking part in online public elective courses; Han students are more likely to consider having fun as the main learning motivation than minority students. This shows that online public elective courses, a commonly used form of online education in colleges and universities, does expose more students to rich educational resources, but it does not benefit different social classes, especially those disadvantaged student groups.