(Fighting against New Coronary Pneumonia) Online Teaching, Virtual Simulation Experiments... Chinese Universities Scientifically Prevent and Control the Epidemic

　　China News Agency, Beijing, May 6 (Reporter Ying Ni) "The community is the frontier of our (epidemic prevention and control)... If the community prevention and control is not done well, the epidemic cannot be controlled. It is like a faucet that cannot be turned off. There will be a steady stream of water flowing out." Liang Wannian, head of the expert group of the National Health Commission's Leading Group for Epidemic Response and Disposal, made a metaphor at the press conference of the State Council's Joint Prevention and Control Mechanism on the 6th.

　　The importance of community prevention and control stems from China's relatively mature community management system.

　　So, as "community" colleges and universities, what kind of experience has been summed up in the past three years of epidemic prevention and control?

　　First, the online teaching management coping ability has been significantly improved.

　　Song Yi, a first-level inspector of the Higher Education Department of the Chinese Ministry of Education, introduced at the press conference on the 6th that the "National Higher Education Smart Education Platform" (referred to as the "Smart Higher Education" platform) was launched in March. As of May 5, the platform's The total number of page views has exceeded 10 million, and more than 90% of the courses on the platform have been clicked to learn, providing a "one-stop search for good courses on the Internet" for the majority of school students and social learners.

The access users of the platform cover 136 countries on six continents, including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, Australia, Brazil, and South Africa.

　　Statistics from the "Smart Higher Education" platform show that compared with before the outbreak of the epidemic, Jilin and Shanghai, which were severely affected by the epidemic, saw a significant increase in online teaching activities in the teaching of customized courses based on MOOC applications.

For example, Tsinghua University and Jilin University have joined hands to face the sudden epidemic and cooperated in the cloud to open a "clone class" of 10 integrated courses for undergraduates of Jilin University, providing students with high-quality learning resources for online learning.

Shanghai Jiaotong University has mobilized all available resources to serve online teaching, cloud homework, online teaching assistants, intermediate classes, and teaching battle against the epidemic have brought unique online courses to students.

University of Shanghai for Science and Technology optimizes the online and offline hybrid teaching plan, continuously improves teaching methods and teaching models, and creates an "online synchronous classroom".

　　According to statistics, as of May 5, all colleges and universities in Jilin, Liaoning, Inner Mongolia, and Shanghai have fully implemented online teaching, and some colleges and universities in Beijing, Hebei, Jiangsu, Shandong and other 8 provinces and cities have switched to full online teaching.

After the test of the epidemic, the ability of online teaching management in colleges and universities has been significantly improved.

　　Second, the teaching of experiments and practical courses has accumulated more mature experience.

　　Song Yi said that since the epidemic, schools in various places have innovated the way of starting courses, fully tapped various online experimental training and virtual simulation platform resources, carried out experiments and practical teaching through MOOCs, live broadcasts, virtual simulations, etc., and carried out a large number of active and effective. Explore practice.

For example, during the epidemic prevention and control period of Nanjing University, the MOOC of "Biochemistry Experiment" was recorded, and students were allowed to watch the experimental operation video online, and then conduct the experimental operation after the school started, and explored a new mode of experimental teaching; Tsinghua University designed experiments that can be carried out at home. Provide students with experimental equipment by mail, and conduct experiments online through video; Tongji University has deployed 52 virtual simulation experiments relying on the virtual simulation experiment teaching center platform and "experiment space", with 17,000 platform users, and virtual software learning reached 56,000 passengers.

Therefore, after nearly three years of practical tests of large-scale online teaching, most colleges and universities have already had relatively mature experience in organizing experimental courses and teaching practical courses.

　　He revealed that the second-phase construction of the "Smart Higher Education" platform also plans to add a virtual simulation experiment section in June.

　　Third, go all out to strive for psychological assistance.

　　Wang Dengfeng, director of the Department of Sports, Health and Art Education of the Ministry of Education, said that in schools that implement closed campus management, teachers and students are indeed prone to various emotional and psychological problems.

He pointed out that while the parties should take the initiative to adjust, the school should also maintain smooth information, strong guarantees, and adequate mental health services.

　　He said that the "Smart Higher Education" platform has established a psychological assistance hotline platform, and also introduced two psychological assistance hotline platforms built by the Ministry of Education, Central China Normal University (Wuhan) and East China Normal University (Shanghai) on the platform. After the launch of this platform, there have been a lot of daily visits and incoming calls. The Ministry of Education is recruiting various college psychological counseling service centers across the country to station on this platform, and strive to make the hotline more efficient and smooth.

　　Wang Dengfeng also emphasized that the campus is a special occasion, which is not only densely populated, but also has frequent interactions with the society. Keep things under control and be ready for diligence.”

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