Online education starts to rise, Bill Gates predicts or will realize

Absrtact: Bill Gates once predicted that we could find the best quality teaching content on the Internet, which is stronger than any single university. Gates believes that the resources of the Internet should be used, regardless of the level of education accepted by the public.

Bill Gates once predicted that "we can find the best quality content on the Internet, which is better than any single university." Gates believes that the resources of the Internet should be used regardless of the level of education that the public receives. And this prophecy seems to be accelerating into reality.

Looking back 2012 years, foreign countries, from Stanford, MIT and other well-known university professors Mooc (large-scale open Network course) wave is surging, and recently, Arizona, Cleveland, Arkansas and other United States 40 public universities are planning to move all the school curriculum to the Internet, students can be exempted from lectures to study for degrees, Tuition is "Looking to give", but also let people see the value of online courses.

At home, the radio and television university system, the Network Education Institute and the online Education enterprise, as the three forces of the remote power, have also started to seek their own breakthroughs. Open universities built on the basis of the radio and television University let us see that the Government is facing the importance of distance education, and it may also let more people know and receive online education. At the same time, startups have found new opportunities in online education, and a large number of online education companies have sprung up.

However, compared with foreign network education to the promotion of education reform, the domestic online education seems to be on the edge of the educational system, "Open University and Network education colleges should learn from the online education enterprises, and online education enterprises should strengthen cooperation with universities." Giochenli, who has always been concerned with research in distance education, believes that in the future, the competition in the field of online education will become increasingly fierce, while foreign MOOC in many aspects, such as curriculum design and development mode, promotion and marketing of online education, quality control and certification, ways and means of cooperation with university and university professors Are worthy of our domestic online education field learning and reference.

Sooner or later, the Internet will wash and recycle the traditional education industry. January 22, 2013, Century Jia Yuan founder gong on Sina Weibo for his new career 91 foreign Education network recruit.

The same judgment is already there. In August 2011, Maikelsen, a famous Silicon Valley investor, published an article on Wall Street, saying that "the cost of starting a business is getting cheaper and the internet is getting more and more covered, at a time when the traditional industries, like Amazon's push down the physical bookstore, will be subverted, with health and education the brunt." ”

"At present, China and even the world online learning and training of the outbreak of entrepreneurship." Especially in China, because of the large population base, the educational content and system is imperfect, market opportunities are everywhere, the market capacity and potential is huge, the prospect is infinite. Now is the opportunity for the development of online learning and training industry. "Liang, an associate professor at Renmin University Business School, said. In the country, including New Oriental, Hong Cheng and other listed in the United States Education Group, also very early into the resource distribution online education field. In the past two years, many start-up companies have entered the market, such as the online broadcast of the public class-centered knowledge sharing community "multi-bay Network", skills-sharing platform, "The Nineth classroom", oriented to high school students to focus on quality teachers ESNs learning social network "micro-course Network", independent research and development of video teaching blockbusters of the hybrid education model "super class , Micro-Blog Learning Community "chalk nets" and so on.

However, different from the online education wave of foreign higher education, the domestic online education website provides mainly the training contents in the fields of exam training, professional skills, hobbies and so on, and more as the supplement of traditional education, it does not touch the core of the Chinese education system. It is also unlikely that the educational model will be as likely to revolutionize education as online education websites abroad.

Online Education website Representative

1. Real-time online teaching platform

Representative: Multi-bass Network

January 31, 19:50, multi-bay network classrooms, courses, "Millet mobile phone Photography", the course Card Photo Education Center, on the home page of the multi-bay network update every day similar to the day will start live and the end of the live broadcast but can play back the course. In the network classroom, the teacher on-line real-time demonstration and the explanation teaching material, in the classroom also can through the message window real-time exchange, the teacher asks "Do you hear me to speak?" The student at the other end of the network replied, "The voice is too small." The course of the event was recorded as a video and placed on the website for students to look back.

Unlike the traditional network public classes, the multi-bay network is the Open class broadcast of the model, supporting audio and video interaction, classroom real-time video, group chat, document demonstrations, electronic whiteboard, hand-speak, text communication and other functions, and free download installation, all borrowed by the network platform completed. After the registration, everyone can upload their lectures in real time video and information, at the same time can choose resource sharing or a small range through the password authentication spread, charge or free. In the multi-PayPal online, there are already users uploading content including workplace, language, Internet, life and so on.

2. Personal Skill Trading Platform

Representative: Nineth Classroom

How to make makeup, how to manage time, 2 hours to play keynote ..., the Nineth class provides the content is very practical, as a line to offline personal skills trading platform, teachers online release courses, students Register, pay, both sides online to complete the teaching and learning process. Unlike the Tobago network, the Nineth classroom does not take the online video teaching method, but the line of the online combination.

However, unlike other traditional training institutions or websites, the Nineth classroom teachers are based on tens of thousands of netizens, each person can be based on their own expertise and experience to release the course and charge tuition, everyone can also according to their hobby interest search courses and enroll.

3. Online education platform for vertical subjects

Representative: Linuxcast

Unlike other platform design languages, life, study and other fields, Linuxcast, as a vertical discipline online education platform, focuses on the Linux online video education, the Linux video Tutorials flagship course library, a podcast on various topics of it technology, and a community of questions and answers around the course. Once the site is open, learners can choose from the entry-level, system services, certification exams, and advanced management categories to select the appropriate level of courses based on their needs and familiarity with Linux. At present, each course video contains a simple course introduction, learning content and so on. On the learner's personal page, you can also see the number of courses you have chosen, the questions you have made, the accomplishments you have achieved, and the progress of your courses at different levels.

Industry view

Hope reversal class brings Dawn

Deng Haiuo, Director of new Oriental online business-to-business products

What if I had to answer the ideal Internet education product? Maybe it should be a granular, adaptive inversion class.

Respecting learners ' individual differences and developing a matching solution is the ultimate goal of education, content intelligent management is the premise of personalized push, from a wide range can be divided into: first, to support the establishment of the relevant standards of granulation; Secondly, after the granulation standard is established, we have the ability to rationalize the relationship between knowledge and knowledge, The connection between ability and ability; Third, we think that on the basis of granulation and knowledge map, we can build an intelligent content management platform, the content has, and content-related intelligent management has, the next is to push the content to users, according to the characteristics of users, push mode to become adaptive push.

Now, the whole domestic network curriculum teaching method is also relatively traditional, are mainly recorded by the way, in recent years there is live classroom, has not entered the mainstream.

I am personally looking forward to a few glimmers of the reversal of classroom patterns abroad. The reversal class was proposed in 2007 to try some schools and universities in the United States. In the reverse classroom mode, students to complete knowledge at home, and the classroom becomes a teacher and students, students and students to interact between the place, including FAQ, case analysis, so as to achieve better learning results. After all, it allows all students to participate in the learning process, all students can receive personalized education, perhaps we can explore the Chinese characteristics of the reverse classroom education model.

Collaborative learning is another focus of internet-based education. The current interactive mode is mainly human-computer interaction, there are a small number of offline group discussion activities, with a certain group relationship, for SNS interactive characteristics, the current exploration is very inadequate.