China News Service, Beijing, March 29 (Ren Jing) On the 29th, the Ministry of Education held a press conference to introduce the construction of the national smart education platform, which was officially launched on the 28th.

Conference site.

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The average daily page views of the primary and secondary school platforms are 28.88 million

24 times more than before "double reduction"

  According to Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, the national smart education platform for primary and secondary schools was put into trial operation on March 1.

The platform has been revised and upgraded on the basis of the original "National Primary and Secondary School Network Cloud Platform". On the basis of the original two resource sections of special education and course teaching, four new after-school services, teacher training, family education and practical experience of teaching reform have been added. Section, a total of 36 secondary columns.

The total amount of existing resources reached 28,052, and 17,300 new resources were added, an increase of 1.6 times.

  From March 1st to 25th, the cumulative number of page views reached 720 million, and the average daily page view was more than 28.88 million, an increase of 40 times compared with the same period last year.

Since March 14, the new crown epidemic has occurred in many places and in many places. In some areas, primary and secondary schools have made full use of this platform to ensure that "classes are suspended without interruption". The overall average daily pageviews of the platform have increased from about 12.91 million in the first two weeks of March to the next two weeks. of more than 46.19 million, an increase of 2.6 times.

  Lv Yugang pointed out that after the central government's "double reduction" document was released in July last year, the number of page views and visits to the platform showed a high surge.

As of the end of February this year, the average daily page views of the original national primary and secondary school network cloud platform reached 21.04 million, an increase of 17 times the average daily page views before the release of the "Double Reduction" document; The average number of pageviews further increased, 24 times higher than before the "double reduction", which helped the school's "double reduction" work.

Vocational education platform teachers' self-built courses exceed 178,000

  "The National Vocational Education Smart Education Platform will be constructed in three phases. The Professional and Course Service Center was launched yesterday. The development and launch of other centers will be completed at the end of June, and the development and launch of the platform's planned functions will be completed at the end of December." Ministry of Education Vocational Education Introduced with Chen Ziji, Director of the Department of Adult Education.

  The National Vocational Education Smart Education Platform consists of four sections: the first section is the "Professional and Course Service Center", which serves learners to enjoy high-quality and convenient digital resources for vocational education and improves the efficiency of using digital resources for vocational education.

The second section is the "Textbook Resource Center", which serves the needs of vocational education textbook development, selection, supervision and evaluation.

The third section is the "Virtual Simulation Training Center", which serves the application needs of vocational education training teaching, skill appraisal and competition examinations.

The fourth section is the "Teacher Service Center", which serves to optimize the training content of vocational education cadres and staff and improve the quality of training.

  The platform resources are based on granular development and supply. Teachers can directly use the standardized courses, or edit the course content and expansion resources by themselves to form personalized courses suitable for students' learning, promote teaching in accordance with aptitude, and ensure teaching effects.

Up to now, the platform has more than 178,000 self-built courses by teachers, which provides the possibility for "large-scale personalized" training of technical and skilled talents.

The number of MOOCs on the higher education platform exceeds 50,000

  According to Wu Yan, Director-General of the Department of Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, MOOCs in China started in 2013. The Ministry of Education followed the development model of "university-based, government support, and social participation", and supported all parties to build more than 30 comprehensive and professional courses. Higher education public online course platform and technology platform.

  As of the end of February 2022, the number of online MOOCs in my country has exceeded 50,000, the number of people taking courses is nearly 800 million, and the number of students who have obtained MOOC credits exceeds 300 million. situation.

  During the new crown pneumonia epidemic, in the spring semester of 2020 alone, 1.08 million college teachers opened 1.1 million online courses, and 22.59 million students participated in the learning.

At present, the digital reform of higher education in my country continues to deepen, and the proportion of college teachers using blended teaching has increased from 34.8% before the epidemic to 84.2%, basically forming a set of Chinese characteristics including concepts, technologies, standards, methods, evaluation, etc. Higher education digital development program.

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