4月28日,联合国教科文组织举办的“应对2019新冠肺炎疫情的跨区域高等教育在线研讨会”召开。来自亚太地区、阿拉伯国家地区和全世界35个国家的近300位教育界官员和专家学者参会,共同分享疫情期间开展在线教育的实践经验,促进跨区域开展全球合作,携手应对未来高等教育面临的新挑战。教育部中国高校在线教学国际平台与课程建设专家顾问组副组长、哈工大副校长、哈工大(威海)校长徐晓飞教授作为中国代表应邀做大会报告,分享中国大学“停课不停学”的在线教育经验。
2020年初新冠肺炎疫情突然来袭,给大学的正常开学、教师教学、学生上课、学校教学组织与运行管理等带来了严重挑战。推动不同区域与不同群体特别是弱势群体享受到优质和平等的在线教育资源,携手迎接新机遇、创造新未来成为全球高等教育面临的共同课题。
联合国教科文组织亚太地区教育办公室负责人、阿拉伯国家地区办公室代表先后致辞。来自巴基斯坦、沙特阿拉伯、阿联酋、中国、印尼、马来西亚、泰国等7个国家10多位专家和联合国教科文组织高等教育创新国际中心等单位的有关专家围绕如何应对疫情和推动全球高等教育跨区域合作、制定在线教育解决方案、组织师生开展在线教学以及如何保障在线教育质量与促进教育公平等问题,从多种角度介绍了疫情时期各国采取的相关措施,分享了各自的应对策略,并面向未来畅谈了全球高等教育的发展趋势与新常态。
徐晓飞作为亚太地区首位报告人,做了题为《中国在线教学的模式创新与经验分享》的报告。他在报告中介绍了中国在防疫期间开展世界上最大规模的在线教学的盛况和教育部引领大规模在线教学的一系列举措,阐述了“政府引导、高校主体、企业支持、社会参与”的中国在线教育发展模式和各高校采用的一系列创新的教学模式与教学方法,以及卓有成效的在线教学“中国方案”。他还谈到了由此引发的“学习革命”和由“学习革命”引发的高等教育“质量革命”,疫情后会加快在线教学向“新常态”转变的高等教育长期发展战略。他还向与会者推介了中国在线教学的首批两个国际在线平台(“学堂在线”和“爱课程”国际版),并表示中国高校愿意与世界各国及时分享疫情前后取得的在线教学成果与经验,并向世界学习者传递中国高等教育的爱心——“质量(Quality)、开放(Opening)、分享(Sharing)、责任(Responsibility)和爱(love)”,与全球各国共抗疫情,共克时艰。报告观点深刻、数据震撼、信息量大,为世界各国高校提供了宝贵的借鉴,受到与会者的一致好评。
会后,徐晓飞表示:此次是受教育部高教司委托参加联合国教科文组织的在线高等教育研讨会,非常高兴能有机会与世界各国分享中国应对疫情开展大规模在线教学的经验。中国在应对疫情开展在线教学“停课不停教不停学”方面取得了举世瞩目的成就,规模大,质量高,效果好,值得向全球推广经验。通过会议交流,可以看到,世界各国都非常重视以在线教学等e- learning方式应对疫情期间的大学教学, 也非常重视跨国跨区域的协同教学合作。中国开通国际在线教学平台,向世界学习者推出一批用英文教授的慕课与各种在线教学资源,是对世界在线教学做出的重要奉献。同时,世界各国也都在探讨疫情过后的新常态化高等教育形态。无疑,“互联网+教育”、“智能+教育”、“服务+教育”和线上线下结合的协同教育教学等将是未来教育的新形态,值得世界各国重视。面对教育全球化的挑战和机遇,世界各国应共建共享在线教育共同体,共同提高高等教育质量,携手推进教育公平。
附徐校长题为《中国在线教学的模式创新与经验分享》报告全英文内容:
China’s Practice and Experience of the Online Higher Education during Anti-Pandemic in 2020
Professor XU Xiaofei
China MOE University Steering Committee on Teaching Informationization and Teaching Method Innovation
Harbin Institute of Technology
(April 28, 2020)
Dear colleagues, ladies and gentlemen,
Good afternoon!
It is my honor and pleasure to have this chance to share with you the practice and experiences of China’s online higher education during the COVID-19 pandemic.
1. The Large-Scale Online Education of China for Anti-Pandemic
Since January 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has brought the big challenges to universities for opening the spring semester, faculty’s teaching, student’s learning, and educational operation management.
In order to solve the problems caused by the COVID-19, China Ministry of Education (MOE) has announced the guideline and called the universities performing online education. Many universities have followed and performed the largest scale online education in the world. Until April 3, more than 950 thousand staffs in 1,454 universities have offered 942 thousand online courses and delivered over 7.133 million classes. More than 1.18 billion person-times of students have joined in the online courses.
Over the years, in China, the approaches of ‘government leadership, university’ s mainstay, enterprise’s support, social community’ s engagement’ have been applied for promoting development of online education platforms, MOOCs and applications, combination of online education and university reforming. This work foundation has played an important role in this online education action.
The MOE has recommended 37 active online education platforms for supporting MOOCs and online teaching of universities. The 41 thousand qualified MOOC courses have been delivered to universities freely. The new online teaching models have been applied for universities education. The teaching and learning manners have been changed through this online education action.
The teachers are changed. They change their roles in online education, and transform from lecturers into anchors and coaches to adapt to the online education.
The students are changed. They change their roles and transform from listeners into actors and players. They are more active to engage in classes.
The universities are changed. They change their way to manage the teaching by means of online monitoring the classes and precise management based on big data.
The education forms are changed. The traditional education forms transform into online education forms, including MOOCs/SPOCs, direct seeding, recorded video, distance supervision and more other composited online teaching/learning models. The online flipped classes and blended teaching approaches can support for student’s self-learning, interactive learning and group learning.
2. Research on Online Education Reforming after Pandemic
Based on the large-scale online education practice, the MOE has guided universities to turn crises into opportunities, and to turn temporary initiatives into long-term development strategies of higher education.
The MOE has organized many Chinese educationists to investigate and research on the practical experiences of this online education action, including the ethos of online education, innovative teaching models and methods, online course platforms and services, online education resource and applications, teacher’s ability and student’s ability for online learning, quality assessment of online education, university’s governing and policies for online education, education providing approaches, etc.
In the future, the deep fusion of ‘Internet + education’ , ‘intelligence + education’ and higher education reforming will promote the ‘learning revolution’. And the ‘learning revolution’ will promote the ‘quality revolution’.
3. Chinese Experiences Sharing through International Course Platforms
The Chinese universities have achieved remarkable effects and results in online education during the pandemic. We are willing to share these experiences with the countries in the world. The MOE recommends firstly two online education platforms ‘iCourse’ (www.icourse163.com) and ‘XuetangX’ (www.xuetangx.com), which can provide a lot of high quality MOOCs and supportive services in English and other languages to the students and learners in the world. The international ‘iCourse’ opened just in the morning today. You are also welcome to contribute your online courses into these platforms. These international online platforms and higher quality courses form a ‘gift pack’ to the learners in the world, with five warm keywords: Quality, Opening, Sharing, Responsibility and Love.
In late this year, China plan to hold the World MOOC Conference in Beijing. You are welcome to join us in the conference. Let’s work together for jumping development of online higher education in world.
Thank you for your attention!
稿件来源:哈尔滨工业大学(威海)