Bridging the digital divide and promoting the quality of education
Smart education, cloud service "not closed"
The National Smart Education Public Service Platform has been officially launched recently. It aggregates four sub-platforms, namely the National Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools, the National Vocational Education Smart Education Platform, the National Higher Education Smart Education Platform, and the National 24365 College Student Employment Service Platform, which has attracted great attention from teachers and students. .
The relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Education stated that they will continue to promote the construction and make full use of the national smart education platform to narrow the digital divide and further promote education equity and education quality improvement.
The intellectual education platform supports "suspending classes without stopping learning"
Enter the National Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools (hereinafter referred to as the "Smart Education Platform for Primary and Secondary Schools"), and select learning content related to dance and poetry in the "After-School Service-Culture and Art" section. This is You Ling, a sixth-grade student at Qingdao Jinmen Road Primary School. I like the course of study.
In the days when the school suspended offline teaching due to the new crown pneumonia epidemic, online learning not only gained her book knowledge, but also increased her accumulation in the fields of art and sports.
The data shows that since the trial operation of the primary and secondary school intelligent education platform on March 1, it has effectively supported the "suspended classes and non-stop learning".
The average daily pageview of the platform has reached more than 28.88 million, and the highest daily pageview has reached 64.33 million. The total number of existing resources is more than 28,000, and the quality of resources has been widely recognized by the society.
As a comprehensive integrated platform for national education public services, the intelligent education platform for primary and secondary schools has many functions such as student learning, teacher teaching, school governance, and educational innovation. It is also the need for coordinating epidemic prevention and control and education reform and development.
By providing high-quality digital education resources and creating online classrooms, we can better serve teachers and students.
"On the basis of the original two resource sections of special education and course teaching, the intelligent education platform for primary and secondary schools has added four new sections, including after-school services, teacher training, family education and practical experience in teaching reform, and the total number of existing resources has reached 28,052. There are 17,300 new resources, an increase of 1.6 times." Lu Yugang, director of the Department of Basic Education of the Ministry of Education, said that the platform also links the National Museum of China, China Digital Science and Technology Museum, National Public Cultural Cloud, Digital Dunhuang, and Peking University Museum of Archaeology and Art. , Tsinghua University Science Museum and a number of important professional websites, focusing on improving the overall quality of students.
"This is an innovative exploration of 'two-line integration'." Tang Liang, deputy director of the Information Center of the Beijing Institute of Educational Sciences, said in an interview with this reporter that the platform can support teachers to carry out various forms of "line" such as micro-lectures and flipped classrooms. "Online" and "offline" innovatively integrate teaching and research teaching to meet the abnormal teaching needs under the influence of normal and epidemic conditions, which is conducive to accelerating the reform of teaching organization and reconstruction of educational forms.
"The boundaries of time and space can be broken, and high-quality resources can be jointly built and shared, thereby reducing the problem of resource imbalance between urban and rural areas, regions, schools, and groups."
Vocational education digital press "fast forward button"
The newly launched National Vocational Education Smart Education Platform (hereinafter referred to as the "Vocational Education Platform") has over 178,000 self-built courses by teachers so far, providing the possibility for "large-scale personalized" training of technical and skilled talents.
Chen Ziji, director of the Department of Vocational Education and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education, pointed out that the continuous iterative upgrading of new technologies has put forward higher requirements for the modern governance system and governance capacity of vocational education.
According to reports, the vocational education platform consists of four major sections: "Professional and Course Service Center", "Textbook Resource Center", "Virtual Simulation Training Center" and "Teacher Service Center".
The platform will be constructed in three phases. Among them, the professional and course service center was officially launched on March 28. The development and launch of other centers will be completed by the end of June this year, and the development and launch of each planned function of the platform will be completed by the end of December.
The reporter learned that the "Professional and Course Service Center" mainly includes three parts: professional resource library, online high-quality courses, and video open courses.
Among them, the professional resource library module provides course resources and learning packages for all kinds of learners and teachers based on majors. Teachers can select and edit course resources according to their needs to form personalized courses; the online quality course module brings together high-quality vocational education field. MOOCs are available for teachers and students to choose from; the video open course module is based on the curriculum resources of national award-winning vocational education programs, providing optional and observable courses for vocational colleges.
Higher education platform to create "golden classroom"
Tang Liang pointed out that the official launch of the national smart education public service platform is of great significance for gathering high-quality educational resources.
"The platform integrates a large number of course and non-course video resources in basic education, higher education, vocational education and other fields. It is worth mentioning that these videos are all designed and recorded by famous teachers, scholars and academicians of famous schools, and the content is exquisite and well-made. ." Tang Liang said.
In fact, on the National Higher Education Smart Education Platform (hereinafter referred to as the "Higher Education Platform"), it can be called a gathering of famous experts.
The first batch of 20,000 courses are high-quality courses selected from 50,000 courses built by 1,800 colleges and universities, covering 13 disciplines and 92 majors. Among them, there are many academicians and famous teachers such as Zhong Nanshan, Lin Yifu and Fan Jinshi. .
Since its inception in 2013, MOOCs in China have developed rapidly in the past nine years, and high-quality educational resources have been brought to thousands of households through the Internet, helping to achieve educational equity.
"In 2013, we only had 5 MOOCs, and now the number of MOOCs has exceeded 52,500; in 2013, we only had hundreds of registered users, and now we have more than 370 million users." Wu Yan, Director of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education It is pointed out that China ranks first in the world in terms of the number of MOOCs and students, and maintains a rapid growth trend.
Wu Yan revealed that the "Higher Education Platform" links two international online teaching platforms, "Love Course" and "Xuetangxing Online", providing more than 900 multilingual courses to the world.
"We initiated and established the World MOOC and Online Education Alliance in China, implemented mutual recognition of credits in 13 world-renowned universities in 11 countries, and opened 168 integrated courses. We will set sail and contribute China to world higher education. strength."
Employment platform helps graduates find jobs
In 2022, the number of college graduates nationwide is expected to reach 10.76 million. In order to promote the employment of college graduates, the Ministry of Education has newly upgraded and built the "National 24365 College Student Employment Service Platform" on the basis of the original Ministry of Education's new vocational network and 24365 smart employment platform ( Hereinafter referred to as "24365 Employment Platform").
By building a 24-hour, 365-day "full-time, intelligent" platform, it provides graduates and employers with better "Internet + employment" services, and promotes more full and higher-quality employment for graduates.
In view of the fact that the current epidemic has made it inconvenient for graduates to go out to seek jobs, before the end of August, the "24365 Employment Platform" will hold about 40 online job fairs, providing more than 5 million job information.
"The platform will also vigorously promote 'cloud signing' to realize online 'one-stop' processing of job-hunting contracts. At the same time, schools in various regions are encouraged to make good use of the new model of 'Internet + employment' to provide graduates with more convenient employment services. " said Wang Hui, director of the Ministry of Education's Department of Higher Education Students.
At present, the "24365 Employment Platform" has collected more than 3.8 million job information, and has launched more than 90 live sessions of "Internet + Employment Guidance", covering employment situation and policies, industry analysis, job-seeking skills, etc.
The platform has also launched 118 employment guidance and training course resources of the "Hongzhi Helping Navigation" series, providing 44 occupational assessments, 125 occupational encyclopedias and 578 occupational cases.
Wang Hui revealed that the National College Graduate Employment Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education will hold 25 special job fairs in different industries such as medical and health care, information communication and the Internet, and it is expected to provide 1.1 million job information.
It will also hold regional online special job fairs with some local education departments, and it is expected to provide 200,000 job information; give play to the role of college employment alliances, and hold a joint online dual-selection meeting for shared employment among colleges and universities across the country, and it is expected to provide 150,000 job information.
Our reporter Sun Yahui