Apache Education: Flipping classrooms in China K12 is the ideal field

4 years ago, online education has not been so hot, 4 years ago, flipping classrooms in the country has not been so much attention, but there is such a company-Pareto chart education is a silent and unique existence, as the first practice in the domestic education company to flip the idea of the classroom, and has been quietly practiced for 4 years, Mustard June has done a series of popular articles on the Flip class, "Flip the classroom, do you understand?", we highly recognize that the model of flip class is the mainstream direction of future education, because the two great values of Flip classroom model: 1, do not kill-to maximize the ability to inspire children's self-study. 2, is the future-online and offline combination of the best model. But the most popular practice is to flip the classroom or in the system, such as Dulangkou, Yang Shi Middle School, and Chongqing Poly-Kui Middle School and Fujian province Jinjiang Middle School, are also related to the attempt, and marketing and money has nothing to do, but the Apache chart has run out of the business model, The mustard heap visited the CEO of Apache and his founder, Mr. King Lei, and asked him to share with us unreservedly his and his flip class China road. The following is a transcript of the interview: We silently did 4 years of Flip class King Lei: A Pareto chart of the flip classroom model that we've been doing for 4 years, has been silently doing, I often give our own analogy: Tesla car is now very hot, but in fact it has been done for more than 10 years, 2003 they began. Flip classroom and typical internet companies are somewhat different, interconnected companies often through the point of entry, but the flip classroom is to try to process the entire education industry reengineering, it should know how to do online, offline How to do, the middle how to connect and so on a series of problems. Flipping the classroom is an educational process reengineering King Lei: Most online education does not change the education itself, but simply copy the education from offline to online. The problems inherent in traditional education have not disappeared. Flip class is the process of education reform, in essence, the teaching process is divided into learning, practice and evaluation, coaching. In other words, now online education also need to cooperate with a coaching part, whether coaching in the future is online, through YY, or Skype to do, or face-to-face, different market segments will have different forms of expression. Including the present MOOC, is also working with the school, it is in fact also in solving this problem, but people did not say so. K12 field is my ideal for China's education, but also the most play in the market King Lei: Into the K12, is our ideal. Education is divided into intellectual and moral education, moral is not to say moral, is how you learn, how to know these things. In the adult and university stages are mainly in the learning of knowledge, MOOC is also mainly in this market. And K12 includes moral education, we do not say philosophy level, say how to learn, how to cultivate children's learning ability, this is the problem of Chinese education. I think so, exam-oriented education is just an appearance, to any society will have exams; to say a digression, the reform of the exam is to adjust the content of the exam, is the science of the topic, now fullAll provinces are independent of the topic, even more out of a set of good questions. The real problem of Chinese education is still in the teaching method, the teacher is talking about the students listening, the teacher constantly indoctrination, which actually put the students ' ability to erase, this is now a situation of education. Flip classroom Just in this piece can solve many problems, children learn self-confidence from he learned, teachers guide students to find problems, help children solve problems, he will be very happy. Children do not find their own problems, the teacher in the process of guidance, the child unknowingly developed the habit of finding problems to solve problems, the establishment of self-confidence will have a stronger motivation to learn. But the market needs to be cultivated together, and it needs to be popularized and educated gradually. We hope that more people can join in the practice of flipping the classroom, to join the cause of the Apache, whether it is investment, or to join, are currently what we need. The entry barriers to flip classrooms are high King Lei: the barriers to flip classrooms are much higher than expected, perhaps the highest barriers to entry in online education. This is not a job for a small company or a company without genes. This is because the flip classroom involves online courses, under the line, data tracking and other links, not a point of the problem, is a face problem, need a lot of accumulation and patience and funding. I actually 2000 start to do online education, originally is Beida online CEO. While we were doing the Apache, we didn't notice the term for flipping classrooms, but that's what we've been doing. We have done a lot of pilot, offline face-to-face, with the present traditional face-to-face is not the same, in fact, the entire industry has brought some changes, the most important thing is that the degree of dependence on teachers will be reduced, which for the training industry to develop large-scale development of space to imagine. The education industry is the result-driven King Lei: education is the result-driven industry. But in fact, our traditional teaching model is essentially a result-oriented. The teacher basically finished the task, the students did not understand, is the creator of the students. Online education model I've seen a lot of questions: for the user, he bought a result, such as some companies have voice technology correction, students follow the computer to read English, you find his problem, but if not resolved, his problem is always a problem; like Mooc, Can learn to understand all learn, learn not to learn MOOC also still do not understand, this situation leads to students do not want to learn. Face-to-face is 1 to 1 or 1 to many, we also took some detours King Lei: One of the problems of flip class is how to do it face-to-face. The beginning of November 2009, less than a year, our product prototype is good, and then we and the Peking University Institute of Education and a key middle school in Beijing to find 20 students, we began to flip the classroom experiment, to see how our results. In the beginning is a class of 10 people, Beijing, the first grade of English is graded, ABC three, because the source of different sources, the level is not the same. We have no experience, from these three levels of selected students, in face-to-face links, guideTo each face-to-face class student level difference is too big. Because the difference is very big, once a week 1 to more face-to-face this link, although the system found the student's problem, but the teacher can not deal with. In July 2011, our second edition was online, and the face-to-face model was changed, and the other extreme was face-to-face use of 1 to 1. In the meantime, we tracked the 20 students, from the free to the tuition, and then offline coaching 1 to 1, and 10 students volunteering to renew, which is a good thing. After 1 to 1, the students of Grade One, the effect is obviously different, then we decided to do 1 to 1. But we have found some 1 to 1 problem, the training market is in fact divided into replenishment and Pearson 2 market segments, we do is the market, but 1 to 1 is not suitable for the market, children lack of interaction. Our current model is 4 to 6 people in small classes.