China News Service, January 26 (Xinhua) Song Yi, a first-level inspector of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education, said on the 26th that more than 76,000 Chinese MOOCs have been launched online, serving 1.27 billion domestic students. China's MOOC construction and application scale has become the world's largest, and it has become an international brand in the world's higher education field.
On January 26, the Ministry of Education held a press conference. At the meeting, Song Yi introduced the progress of related work in promoting the construction and application of MOOCs over the past year. Song Yi said that the Ministry of Education has fully implemented the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, deepened strategic actions for educational digitalization, and vigorously promoted the digital transformation of higher education with MOOCs and online education as the starting point. After ten years of construction, more than 76,000 Chinese MOOCs have been launched online, not only serving 1.27 billion domestic students, but also through the implementation of the "MOOCs Going Abroad" campaign, Chinese MOOCs have gone abroad and made China's contribution to world higher education. .
Song Yi said that China's MOOC construction and application scale has become the world's largest and has become an international brand in the world's higher education field. The main approaches taken by relevant departments of the Ministry of Education include:
The first is to take the lead in building the World MOOC and Online Education Alliance. In 2020, under the initiative of the Ministry of Education, the World MOOC and Online Education Alliance was established. This is the first multilateral international organization in the field of higher education digitalization initiated and led by China. The president of Tsinghua University serves as the chairman of the alliance, and its members include 16 With 17 well-known universities and 6 online education institutions in the country, including three new members, the British FutureLearn platform, the Indonesian Online Education Institute, and the National Autonomous University of Mexico, which will join in 2023, our circle of friends continues to expand.
The second is to hold the World MOOC and Online Education Conference every year. Since 2020, four World MOOC and Online Education Conferences have been held. Among them, in 2023, the "2023 World MOOC and Online Education Conference" will be held in Italy for the first time. Stefania Giannini, Assistant Director-General of Education of UNESCO, Wu Yan, Vice Minister of Education of China, and Jia Guide, Chinese Ambassador to Italy , Italian Ambassador to China Ambrose attended the meeting and delivered a speech. More than 180 relevant leaders, experts and scholars from more than 70 universities, online education platforms, international organizations, and government agencies from 21 countries attended the meeting, which attracted widespread international attention.
The third is to carry out in-depth international exchanges and cooperation in online teaching. Relying on the World MOOC and Online Education Alliance, it has opened 341 global integrated courses and launched 10 global integrated certificate projects, with nearly 25.4 million learners; it has cooperated with more than 30 well-known universities and online education institutions around the world to build courses A two-way communication channel for introduction and export, we organized 88 Chinese universities to provide nearly 300 high-level MOOCs to Indonesia, covering more than 3,000 universities in Indonesia. At the same time, Xi'an Jiaotong University relies on the Silk Road University Alliance to offer 30 training topics and 743 courses in energy, chemical industry, health care, etc.; Southwest Jiaotong University implements the "Belt and Road" initiative, develops courses and teaching materials, and trains more than 80 students from The country has more than 5,000 rail transit talents, reaching more than 200 universities at home and abroad and more than 100,000 online learners; Southern University of Science and Technology has helped 13 Asian and African countries, including Cambodia and Kenya, build smart classrooms.
The fourth is to develop and publish an international report on the digital development of higher education. In 2023, the Ministry of Education released the "Infinite Possibilities-World Higher Education Digital Development Report" and the "World Higher Education Digital Development Index" for the second time. The 2023 version of the "Development Report" systematically sorts out the five major stages of technology-led educational change, refined four new paradigms of higher education digitalization, predicted six major trends in the future digital development of higher education, and proposed six major action strategies to deal with challenges. . The 2023 version of the "Development Index" brings together authoritative data from more than 300 well-known universities in the world from the four aspects of digital education, digital education, digital management, and digital guarantee, and publishes the measurement results of the digital development of higher education in 47 countries. The development of digitalization of higher education in various countries around the world provides scientific basis and data support.