The gray industry chain of online paid lessons must be cured from the root
Online education and teaching models are gradually popularizing. Criminals launch lesson brushing services for profit
□ Our reporter Han Dandong
□ Intern Yang Huijia
"What software? How many subjects? Is there a test?"
When Wang Yang (pseudonym), a freshman at a university in Heilongjiang, first contacted the class-sharing agent under the introduction of his senior, the other party simply asked these questions, and then asked him for the account and password of Xuetong, and said, "First No need to pay, I will tell you if you brush it, you can pay 8 yuan at that time."
A day and a half later, Wang Yang saw that his computer basic course on the MOOC (learning platform) had been completed-this time the service of the course made him quite satisfied.
"We usually have a lot of homework, and we don't have time to watch such slow-paced online classes. The school requires that a certain amount of class time must be completed, and we can only find someone to do it." Wang Yang told a reporter from the Rule of Law Daily.
There are not a few students who have bought class brushing services like Wang Yang.
According to the police report, from 2019 to 2020 alone, there were more than 7.9 million students who purchased class rewriting services across the country, and the number of rewriting courses exceeded 79 million subjects. There were more than 100,000 offline agents involved in the rewriting platform Most are students in school.
Poor quality of some online courses
Students choose to spend money on lessons
"The content of online courses is low cost-effective. What teachers pay most attention to is the attendance, homework, and final exam results of the offline courses. The course content on the Internet is enough to do the questions, and brushing can also help to do the chapter quizzes of the online courses. "Li Mou, a student at a university in Xi'an, Shaanxi, speaks bluntly.
It is understood that all colleges and universities have set up online elective courses on some online teaching platforms, or use the online classroom platform to arrange some classwork. The learning platform, MOOC, Zhidao, and excellent colleges are more mainstream, including professional courses and electives. Lessons are the main goal of class brushing services.
During the interview, college students in Harbin, Xi'an and other cities all stated that they have had the experience of purchasing class-sharing services, ranging from 5 yuan to 20 yuan per subject.
There are three main reasons why students choose to find someone to take online courses on their behalf: First, online courses are usually elective courses, and the pace is slow, not in line with their own learning progress and plan, so they don’t want to waste time to brush the lessons on their own; Sent to heart, or are not interested in some courses, and are not willing to attend classes at all, just to get the corresponding credits; third, time is tight and the task is heavy, so I have to find someone to refresh the course, for example, near the end of the semester.
After the reporter searched on Weibo with the keyword "learning through brushing lessons", he saw many comments from netizens, such as "tomorrow exams, and today's lessons have not been finished yet" "I'm not brushing lessons every day, or brushing lessons every day." On the road" and so on.
The reporter contacted a service provider who claimed to be the main contractor of learning notification, Zhidao, and excellent colleges for the three platform brushing services on the grounds of the need for brushing. And slow brushing, the fastest brushing can be completed in two hours, slow brushing can be based on school requirements, tests and videos can be brushed on behalf of.
"Learn through the package videos, tests and exams, with a basic score of 95+; Zhizhi, Wisdom Tree package for normal hours, meeting classes, tests and final exams, with a basic score of 95+."
With such a "cheap" price, how can a business make a profit?
A class agent told reporters that the class service is a small profit but quick turnover.
In the entire chain, the lesson agent acts as an intermediary between the lesson website and customers, helping the lesson platform to attract customers.
Subsequently, the staff of the brushing platform will open an account on the brushing platform, and enter the account number, password and other information according to the steps. The background will automatically brush the class, and the staff does not need to perform other operations.
According to reports, the brushing service is limited to the length of the video and the objective questions in the question bank. Subjective questions that need to be considered and flexible English and maths cannot be brushed.
A business provider that provides refreshing services stated in the notes about the learning pass software that the proxy refreshing service can only help with the exams generated by the learning pass question bank. Subjective text questions and the exams arranged by the teacher on the learning pass can be used for the exams. The service cannot take the test on behalf of the customer and needs to be completed by the customer.
"All exercises in the study pass have a question bank. When you encounter the test code, you can go in iteratively and search for it directly to set up, and search for keyword information." Li said that the answering service in the lesson service is mostly based on technical codes. After the search in the question bank is completed, the questions outside the question bank cannot be answered by proxy, so many businesses have made it clear that "subjective questions and unpopular subjects, as well as English and mathematics are not brushed."
During the interview, the reporter saw in the account of an agent that said that the ordering service of each platform in the order interface was marked with "wholesale price". The price was much lower than the agent's external selling price, and the sales were fast. There is a big difference between the brush price and the slow brush price, but in the wholesale price, the quick brush price and slow brush price of Zhizhi, Wisdom Tree, Chaoxing, and Xuetong are only 0.6 yuan per subject.
"For example, Xuetong, we sell to customers 4 yuan to 6 yuan per subject, earning 3 to 5 yuan. Sometimes in order to attract customers to post online promotion for us, we can also discount, and customers can also buy it for 2 to 3 yuan. . In fact, it’s not expensive at all, and there are no “pit” customers.” said the class agent.
During the interview, the reporter learned that many of the class agents are college students, and the classmates around them are all potential customers, and they don't even need a general agent to provide a customer base.
Running into sports performance
Brushing service came into being
During the interview, the reporter found that in addition to the service of brushing lessons, some businesses can also provide running brushing services.
It turns out that many colleges and universities will require students to run to improve their physical fitness. Different schools require different kilometers and routes, and most of the running data is included in sports performance.
However, many students interviewed reported that the running software of many colleges and universities such as Totoro Campus, Trail Run, Sports World Campus, etc. are not recorded and inaccurate.
The reporters watched the comments of these apps and found that many people reported that the software functions were not perfect, such as "The screen is not recorded when the screen is turned off, and the incoming message is not recorded" every time the network is abnormal, and the school has to let it be used. There are bugs everywhere" and so on.
Because running data will affect performance, and the software is still incomplete, the running agent brushing business came into being.
"We require running 72 kilometers in one semester, which accounts for 10 points in the final sports scores and does not require speed." Student Liu, who just graduated from Northeastern University this year, recalled to reporters that their school's requirements for running were very humane. The problem It is that the software used is not sensitive, "sometimes the recording is very inaccurate, which is like running away in vain".
A senior student from Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication told reporters: "When the freshman year started, there was a sunshine sports run, which stipulated the number of kilometers to be brushed per semester. Later, the teacher discovered that the generation of brushing had changed the "industry" and cancelled this. I think the teacher is very wise. I also run normally, but I just want to run according to my own route and plan. I don't want to be restricted by the route and the number of kilometers."
The reporter interviewed a university teacher in Beijing on this issue. The teacher told reporters: "Our original intention was to let students run and exercise. Now it has become a money-making tool for some people. This is definitely not good. We will urge students to exercise through classrooms and other methods. , I won’t take this kind of clocking and running anymore."
Later, when the reporter searched for running brushing services on various shopping platforms, he saw that a store used a controllable variable speed smart shaker for brushing at a price of 1.5 yuan per kilometer, and it was guaranteed that cheating would not be detected.
"But you can only run once a day, so you can go early and feel at ease." The store told reporters.
Online teaching becomes the norm
Curriculum industry chain must be governed
Why is there a phenomenon of modern class brushing?
Chu Zhaohui, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Educational Sciences, believes that the emergence of the phenomenon of brushing on behalf of the class reflects that the online courses offered by some schools have not been generally recognized by students.
From the perspective of time and income, students believe that the value of the course is not high or cannot meet its value needs, so they will find someone to do it.
According to Wang Yanhui, a lawyer at Shanghai Heng Yanda Law Firm, there are three main reasons for the formation of the online paid tutoring industry chain: the development of the Internet has made the mode of online education and teaching gradually popular, and the large scale of online courses has made criminals smell business opportunities. ; Since the beginning of 2020, the new crown pneumonia epidemic has caused online teaching to become the norm in education, and the mode of combining online and offline education has gradually become the current trend; education departments in some places have not strictly controlled the quality of online teaching, which has been illegal Molecules can take advantage of this opportunity.
In response to this phenomenon, Chu Zhaohui believes that schools need to reflect and think deeply about the quality of the course; to reduce the need for paid lessons, we must start from the root, that is, reduce the demand for paid lessons, and make students think that the courses are meaningful; for the paid lesson industry The chain can be regulated to a certain extent, and third-party organizers should bear certain responsibilities.
"But only from the technical level to solve the problem has little effect, we still have to start with improving the quality of the course."
During the interview, the reporter found that in addition to the school online class, other workplace classrooms also have an endless stream of refreshing services.
For some social workers, such as company employees and public officials, is it illegal to use proxy brushes during training?
Wang Yanhui believes that company employees, public officials, etc. can get high scores or corresponding grades without making any effort after purchasing the class rewriting service, which is obviously unfair to other colleagues and violates the principle of fairness and justice in the civil law. This kind of opportunistic method also violates public order and good customs and seriously affects the public interest of society.
For those who provide such services, deciphering software and other acts may not only be suspected of infringing on the intellectual property rights of others, but in serious cases may also be suspected of damaging computer information systems.
Wang Yanhui suggested to strengthen the education of online class personnel, especially students, to make them realize that this kind of opportunistic behavior is not advocated by correct values, and to fundamentally prevent the occurrence of such behavior; the education department should strengthen the online class. The management, technically and systematically, severely crack down on this phenomenon. Once discovered, it should be punished accordingly; the relevant departments should promptly improve relevant laws and regulations, clarify the conviction and sentencing standards for the behavior of surrogate classes, and allow criminals to be punished by law.