China to set up 20,000 quality network courses for education Cloud resource platform

According to the Ministry of Education website News, the Ministry of Education recently issued "Educational Information Decade development planning 2011-2020". The plan proposes the implementation of the "China Digital Education 2020" action plan, the construction of education cloud resources platform, the construction of 20000 high-quality network courses and its resources.

The plan requires the implementation of the "China Digital Education 2020" action plan, the implementation of a number of key projects in five areas, such as high quality resource sharing, school informatization, educational management informatization, sustainable development capability and information base capacity, to achieve substantial and important progress. 2012-2015, a preliminary solution to the major problems in the development of education information, the basic formation of the National educational modernization and the development of educational information system; 2016-2020, according to the progress of the construction of the Plan of Action, education reform and development of actual demand and the development of education information itself, Identify the construction priorities and milestones of each action.

The plan proposes that by 2015, the Education Resources and public service system with network resources as the core should be basically built to provide convenient and fast service for learners to enjoy high-quality digital education resources.

As for the construction and sharing of high-quality digital education resources, the planning requires the construction of the national Digital Education Resources Public service platform. Building Education Cloud resources platform, bringing together hundreds of enterprises and institutions, million teachers and students to develop excellent resources. The construction of thousands of high-quality online education resources and the use of communication and research community, the formation of distinctive features, rich content, style and diverse quality of resources. To provide fair competition, standardize the trading system environment, to help all teachers and students and the community to easily choose and access to quality resources and services to achieve high-quality resource sharing and sustainable development.

To build all kinds of high-quality digital education resources at all levels. Aiming at the different needs of preschool education, compulsory education, high school, vocational, higher education, continuing education, national education and special education, 20000 high-quality web-based courses and their resources are selected and developed, 500 disciplinary tools, application platforms and 1500 virtual imitation authentic training experimental systems are chosen and exploited. To integrate the generative resources required by teachers and students, and build a digital education resource system which is matched with each subject category and dynamically updated. The construction of standard Chinese and Mandarin and dialect recognition system, integration of the national language and text standards and voice library.

Establish the Digital education resources sharing mechanism. To formulate the basic standards for the technology and use of digital education resources, formulate a resource review and evaluation Index system, set up a resource evaluation mechanism combining users ' online evaluation and expert review, adopt guiding input, support the development and application of resources, and formulate policies for government to purchase quality digital education resources and services, Support users to purchase resources and services on demand, encourage enterprises and other social forces to develop digital education resources and provide resource services. Set up a government-led, multi-party participation in the sharing mechanism of resources.

On the construction of the National Education Cloud Foundation platform, the plan further calls for the full integration and utilization of the information infrastructure of various educational institutions at all levels and the construction of a basic cloud environment covering the whole country, with reasonable distribution and open source, supporting the formation of a cloud base platform, a cloud resource platform and a cloud education management Service platform. By 2015, we will initially build a National Education Cloud Foundation platform to support the effective deployment and application of the education Cloud resource platform and the Management Service platform, and provide the education basic cloud service for IPV4 and IPV6 users.

In addition, "planning" also stressed that open University information support platform construction. To build an Open University informatization supporting platform spanning network, Cross-platform and terminal, through various channels to build the learning resources covering the whole people's learning needs. To realize the interconnection with various schools and educational institutions at all levels, to support open universities to carry out social services, to build a lifelong education network with open universities as its main body and various schools and educational institutions at all levels.

(Responsible editor: Duqing first)