What is the significance of the digital transformation of education?
What is the current implementation of the national education digitalization strategy?
How will it be advanced in the future?
On August 7, at the 2022 Beijing News Shell Finance Summer Summit Education Special Forum, Lei Chaozi, Director of the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, delivered a speech and pointed out that the digital transformation of education should be promoted and the construction of high-quality digital support The education system is the only way for my country to move from a big education country to a strong education country.
In recent years, Beijing has made frequent moves to strengthen the top-level design of digital education development.
Optimizing the Beijing Education Information Network, launching the Beijing Education Big Data Platform, and gathering 560 million pieces of education data... At the forum, Ge Juzhong, the second-level inspector of the Beijing Municipal Education Commission, shared Beijing's efforts in the digital transformation of education.
Lei Chaozi:
Accelerate the digital transformation of the education system
Lei Chaozi introduced that after years of continuous efforts, my country's education informatization has achieved leapfrog development and achieved remarkable results.
Digital education is becoming an important variable in reshaping the world education pattern; promoting the digital transformation of education is an inherent need for the high-quality development of education in my country.
The digital transformation of education is an important strategic task in building a digital China
Lei Chaozi emphasized that in a populous country like China, only by making full use of information technology and building a networked, digital, personalized, and lifelong education system can we achieve a learning style that everyone can learn, can learn everywhere, and can learn from time to time. society.
Only by realizing refined resource allocation and scientific decision-making based on intelligent technology can significantly improve the level of education governance and provide key support for running a satisfactory education for the people.
Lei Zhaozi pointed out that since the beginning of this year, the Ministry of Education has focused on building a national smart education public service platform, launched the implementation of the national education digitalization strategy, and comprehensively explored new mechanisms, new models and new forms of digital education.
In March, the National Smart Education Public Service Platform was officially launched.
The platform brings together 34,000 basic education course resources, 6,628 vocational education online high-quality courses, and 27,000 higher education high-quality courses.
As of July 28, the total number of page views on the platform has exceeded 3.2 billion, and the total number of visitors has reached 470 million.
Continue to expand the scale of resource application and construction and development
In the future, the Ministry of Education will accelerate the comprehensive digital transformation of the education system.
Lei Chaozi said that the second phase of the national smart education public service platform has been successfully completed, which is a small step in the national education digitalization strategy. The work idea of "four integrations" pushes the digital transformation of education further.
It will combine top-level design planning with application practice innovation, and strengthen smart education construction, application demonstration, and digital transformation.
Continue to expand the scale of resource application and construction and development, and promote continuous efforts to achieve full coverage of pilot projects in 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps before the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
It will promote the high-quality and balanced educational resources, make efforts in student assistance, explore in teaching assistants, deepen in management assistance, make breakthroughs in research assistance, advance in government assistance, explore the effective combination of existing education and online education space, and serve Learning Society and Lifelong Education.
In addition, it will combine the development and construction of educational resources with the safe and reliable operation of the smart education platform, use digital empowerment, use intelligence to improve quality, and use the platform to manage the platform to ensure high efficiency, intelligence, standards, and norms.
In the future, international and regional digital education alliances will be established to launch international digital education initiatives to improve the quality of education in my country and its international influence.
Ge Juzhong:
By 2025, Beijing's new future-oriented education ecology will initially take shape
How will Beijing digital education develop in the future?
Ge Juzhong said that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, the development of digital education in Beijing will focus on the two-way integration of technology and education, focus on promoting the digital transformation and upgrading of education, and realize the transformation of development methods, teaching methods, evaluation methods and governance methods.
Consolidate the foundation for the development of digital education
In recent years, Beijing has made frequent moves to strengthen the top-level design of digital education development. Drafted the "Beijing Smart Education Master Plan (2022-2025)".
Ge Juzhong said that Beijing has continuously optimized the Beijing Education Information Network. The Internet access rate on campus has reached 100%, the gigabit bandwidth accounted for more than 70% of the school, the wireless network coverage rate has reached more than 90%, and the deployment of IPV6 has been fully completed; Informatization project to improve the weak links of compulsory education and enhance ability; release and launch the Beijing Education Big Data Platform, which brings together 231 data sheets from 43 business systems, 15,000 data elements, and a total of 560 million pieces of education data; The service portal "Jingxuetong" provides a full range of educational information services for schools, teachers, students and parents.
Ge Juzhong said that in response to changes in the epidemic situation, Beijing quickly built an online education and teaching platform to ensure that "schools do not stop classes, teachers keep teaching, and students keep learning".
At the same time, tens of thousands of digital course resources covering different versions of textbooks for all subjects in primary and secondary schools were recorded, and 14 enterprises in five categories were coordinated to build multiple online teaching platforms to achieve seamless connection between offline and online teaching.
In addition, Ge Juzhong introduced that Beijing has continuously promoted the construction of three classrooms, namely "air classroom", "dual-teacher classroom" and "integrated classroom", to change the education and teaching model; it has also built an "open online training management service platform for primary and secondary school teachers" to support teachers Sustainable development of professional competence.
Drive digital transformation and transform teaching, assessment and governance
Among them, in terms of changing teaching methods, Ge Juzhong said that it is necessary to further promote the pilot demonstration of "Internet + education", establish a cross-school business linkage and process coordination work system, and promote education and teaching from traditional classroom teaching to online and offline integration. The transformation of internal and extracurricular integration.
It will continue to change the evaluation method, realize multi-dimensional and comprehensive evaluation based on big data, promote the transformation from result-based evaluation to process-based evaluation, and explore future-oriented talent training models.
"By 2025, Beijing's digital education will play a more prominent role in promoting the reform and innovation of the talent training model," said Ge Juzhong. At that time, teaching scenarios featuring situational awareness, omnidirectional interaction, intelligent management and control, and on-demand push were widely popularized. , the collaborative sharing of data resources, the in-depth application of intelligent services, the initial formation of a new future-oriented education ecosystem, and play a supporting and leading role in the construction of a high-quality education system.
Beijing News reporter Liu Yang Yang Feifei