The number of people studying MOOCs in my country reached 979 million (new data and new highlights)
Newspaper, Beijing, January 2 (Reporter Ding Yasong) The reporter learned from the Ministry of Education that as of November last year, the number of MOOCs in my country had reached 62,000, with 402 million registered users and 979 million students. 352 million course credits have been recognized, and the number of MOOCs and the number of students are ranked first in the world.
"Taking MOOCs as the lead, in-depth reform of teaching models such as online learning, flipped classrooms, and blended teaching, the digitalization of higher education has entered a new stage, and the form of higher education is undergoing profound changes." The relevant person in charge of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education said.
High-quality course resources continue to grow.
Since its launch in March last year, the National Higher Education Smart Education Platform has updated MOOC resources covering 14 disciplines and 92 professional categories, providing nearly 100,000 teaching materials and more than 300 virtual simulation experiments.
As of the end of November last year, the platform users covered 166 countries and regions, the platform and course service platform accumulatively visited 29.2 billion times, and nearly 500 million people took courses.
MOOCs go west to promote educational equity.
Leveraging the advantages of teachers and technology in the east, we will deliver high-quality resources to universities in the west, providing a total of 172,900 MOOCs and customized course services to universities in the west, helping the western region to carry out 3,272,400 mixed teaching courses, and students participating in learning reached 376 million times , 1.714 million teachers in the western region participated in applied training.
At present, 725 universities in the west have used MOOCs to carry out online teaching or blended teaching, accounting for 97.3% of the universities in the west, and the ability to cultivate talents in higher education in the west has been significantly improved.
International exchanges and cooperation have been carried out extensively.
Since the establishment of the World MOOC and Online Education Alliance in 2020, 168 global integrated courses have been offered, 13 world-renowned universities in 11 countries have implemented mutual recognition of credits, and 8 English global open courses have been launched to attract learners from all over the world 7.3 million.
"Love Course" and "XuetangX", two international online teaching platforms for colleges and universities, have been selected into the UNESCO Global Education Alliance, and open more than 1,000 online courses in 14 languages to college students and learners all over the world. 670,000.
(People's Daily)