(Combating New Crown Pneumonia) 72 Higher Vocational Colleges in Sichuan Launch Online Teaching to Ensure Online Teaching "Substantially Equivalent"

China News Network, Chengdu, March 4th (Reporter He Yiqing) The reporter learned from the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education on the 4th that Sichuan higher vocational colleges take advantage of the information service functions of major teaching platforms to give full play to the advantages of "Internet + education" and take various measures. "Online teaching" requires quality and practical results. As of March 2, 72 of the 75 higher vocational colleges in Sichuan have fully implemented online teaching. The Sichuan Provincial Department of Education requires all higher vocational colleges to comprehensively arrange and be accurate for students who do not have online learning conditions, formulate corresponding assistance measures, and provide teaching guidance services.

Sichuan Vocational College of Finance and Economics launches a network training for students' skills competition. Photo courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Department of Education

In order to ensure the coverage and quantity of online teaching curriculum resources, the Sichuan Provincial Department of Education actively connects and recommends mainstream curriculum platforms such as smart vocational education, superstar learning pass, and love courses to provide online teaching services for schools in the province and support vocational colleges to make full use of them. 203 national-level professional teaching resource banks covering all 19 majors were launched for online teaching, and 36 vocational colleges in the province were quickly organized to provide 508 quality courses to other schools for free.

In order to improve the effectiveness of online teaching, teachers in various higher vocational colleges in Sichuan have innovated teaching methods and updated the teaching content in real time. According to the characteristics of the curriculum and the actual conditions of the students, they have adopted "live teaching + online interaction" "recording resources + flipped classroom" "online teaching platform + Live interactive platform + QQ group (WeChat group) "and other forms of online teaching, exploring new models of online teaching, constructing new places for online teaching, and fostering a new form of" Internet + "teaching.

The secretary of the Party Committee of Sichuan Communications Vocational and Technical College entered the live broadcast room to check the teaching situation. Photo courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Department of Education

In addition, Sichuan higher vocational colleges follow up on-line teaching trends in a timely manner, develop targeted monitoring and supervision measures, increase assessment and inspection efforts, make full use of information platforms, collect real-time analysis data, and provide timely feedback to teaching frontlines to guide teachers to improve Teaching has gradually formed an effective quality assurance system to ensure that online teaching is "substantially equivalent". The Chengdu Vocational College of Agricultural Science and Technology has formulated a "one person, one case" to ensure that online teaching is not empty and students are not left behind; co-ordinated the implementation of online teaching effectiveness monitoring, established curriculum review and review, teaching process monitoring and platform operation guarantee tracking and supervision mechanism, Make sure "teachers are teaching and students are learning".

According to surveys and statistics on 45 higher vocational colleges in Sichuan, 32 schools with less than 3% of students who cannot conduct real-time online learning due to network and equipment conditions, 8 from 3% to 5%, more than 5% 5 of these students are mainly from poor mountainous areas, remote areas, and plateau areas.

Chengdu Vocational College of Agricultural Science and Technology launches online teaching monitoring. Photo courtesy of Sichuan Provincial Department of Education

The Sichuan Provincial Department of Education requires that students who are unable to conduct real-time online learning help their self-study by issuing learning tasks, course materials and watching online recorded online teaching videos after class to help them carry out self-study. Teachers use telephones, text messages, and QQ , WeChat, etc. for counseling and answering questions; for students who are completely unable to go online, use mailing study materials, arrange reading tasks, consolidate learned knowledge, etc. to guide students to study, and provide psychological comfort through telephone, text messages and other methods to guide students to arrange their holidays Study life; After returning to school, students will make up for the relevant course content through individual tutoring and centralized remedial classes to ensure that they keep up with the teaching progress. (Finish)