Cloud education accelerates the equalization of educational resources

May 29, the signing ceremony of the Xicheng District Education Commission and Polycom Joint layout distance teaching system was held in normal experimental secondary school. Subsequently, the Xicheng District will start the distance teaching system Phase I project, mainly involves the center room, 10 demonstration schools, 50 standard construction schools and 200 cooperative schools construction. Among them, the construction of secondary schools, mainly including video classroom construction, such as automatic camera, image display, lighting, sound design, including a variety of auxiliary teaching equipment integration, mainly for multidisciplinary research and video conferencing.

Liu, deputy director of Xicheng Education Board, the Xicheng District Board of Education in primary and secondary schools, outside the educational institutions more than 180, private educational institutions more than 380, are relatively independent education resources, in addition, in cooperation with foreign schools and educational institutions in the process of communication, there are also barriers to distance. Therefore, "We hope that through the deployment of advanced remote video teaching system to cover the region's major schools, cooperative schools and international exchange schools to achieve the integration of educational resources, strengthen international education exchanges."

"The future of distance learning systems is not limited to distance teaching and international communication, but it will also take on more educational content such as teaching research, bilingual education, one school and multiple access applications, and promote modern education into a new stage of development." "We have also entered the era of cloud education," Cai Xiaodong, president of normal experimental high school, said with a smile. ”

Non-governmental educational institutions taking the lead in building cloud education platform

The market-oriented private education institutions are ahead. Last year, the Amber Education group began building its own cloud education center. Objectively speaking, due to the large number of teaching outlets, private education institutions in the student management, teacher training, curriculum renewal, teaching and research exchanges have been limited; and advanced cloud computing technology for education information resources and systems integration, on the cloud platform for unified deployment, And through the construction of a metropolitan area network to achieve teachers and students at any time on demand, so that "resource sharing" to become a reality.

Listen to the teacher courses, check the timetable and transcripts, consult the library and community information, and teachers and students online communication, can be achieved through the cloud education platform. At the same time, the teacher's research and teaching, the school and the Education Board of the video conference, parents meeting, can also be held through this platform.

"Cloud education has accelerated the pace of equalization of educational resources." Liu said, now Xicheng Education Commission is trying to build group schools, each group a leading school, such as Beijing Primary School and experiment two small, each lead school radiation surface is very wide, "such as experiment two small group already has 11 schools to enter, extends to Daxing, Mentougou and other counties. In the management of teaching and research in 11 branches, the remote video system will play a great role in providing more resources for teachers and students in different schools. "Through this video system, not only solves the cost problem, but also solves the information timely communication problem".

Building a stable and reliable national education cloud service model

Cloud technology is not unfamiliar in the daily life, but the application in the field of education is relatively lagging behind. When the internationalization of large enterprises to achieve resource sharing, the synchronization of video conferencing, educators also need to go through the crowded traffic to meet together, the teachers of quality courses can not be widely disseminated in the first time. Take Xicheng District as an example, has established the relatively perfect network infrastructure, its education metropolitan area Network has realized with China Telecom, China Unicom, Beijing Education Information Network, song Hua Wired and other network interconnection. This year again access to 300 trillion China telecom Internet export bandwidth resources, now China Telecom metropolitan Area Network total export bandwidth of more than 1G, has a good distance Learning Network Foundation. Unfortunately, remote communication between educational institutions has not yet achieved real-time video communication within the specialized system.

Cai Xiaodong introduced, normal experimental middle school and an American middle school is a fellowship school, but all students are individual to the individual in the general network conditions to communicate, but not through the exclusive distance teaching system to carry out a larger, targeted education and teaching communication.

The Ministry of Education published in March this year, "Educational Information Decade development Planning (2011-2020)" requires that the full integration of existing resources, the use of cloud computing technology, the formation of resource allocation and service intensive development approach to build a stable, reliable, low-cost National Education Cloud service model.

Ministry of Education officials said that at present, the infrastructure needs to be popularized and improved, the effective mechanism of digital education resources construction and sharing has not yet formed; the educational management informatization system needs to be integrated and integrated; the promotion of educational informatization to educational reform needs to be further exerted, and it is still an urgent and arduous task

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Cloud education is the development of cloud technology platform and its application in the field of education and training. Cloud education breaks the traditional frontier of educational informatization, the introduction of a new concept of education information, teaching, management, learning, entertainment, sharing, interactive communication in one, so that the education sector, schools, teachers, students, parents and other educators, these different identities of people, can be on the same platform, According to the right to complete different work. Cloud education includes the education and Training management information system in cloud training, the distance education training system and the training organization website. In this educational platform that covers the world, sharing educational resources, sharing educational achievements, educating and educating people to achieve interaction.