Network education resources in some universities will be free to open

The pilot ——— of modern distance education in 69 universities in China

Recently, some domestic colleges and universities Network Education college dean, deputy dean in Beijing jointly launched the Network Education resources Free open program. This plan will make the quality education resources of these universities open to the society. At present, there are 68 colleges and universities in China to carry out modern distance education, including 53 universities in the University of the Network Education college participated in the plan.

Learning resources such as excellent courses are the main content of free and open

It is of great significance to open the network education resources to the public and to build the platform of the common resources. The National University Modern Distance Education cooperation Group Secretary General Shunjichang Professor, the network education obtains the development and obtains the social approval the key lies in the curriculum and the study resources construction, the Ministry of Education implements constructs "The New Century Network Course", "the National Fine Course" and "the Network Education Digital Learning Resource Center", Its policy direction is to encourage the network education pilot colleges and universities to continuously upgrade the curriculum research and development level, the introduction of a series of high-quality, high-level courseware, while enriching the network education resources, so that high-quality resources to achieve integration and sharing, so as to better serve the learners, better serve the people's learning, life-long learning of the learning-oriented society.

It is reported that in January 1999, the State Council forwards the Ministry of Education "facing the 21st century Educational revitalization Action plan", put forward the implementation of "Modern Distance Education project", the formation of open Education Network, the construction of lifelong learning system. After ten years ' development, the enrollment scale of modern distance education has reached the enrollment scale of ordinary colleges and universities. 2000, the Ministry of Education launched the "New Century Network course construction project", this is the modern distance education engineering resources construction higher education (including modern distance education supporting environment) the most important content of major projects. In 2003, the project General project and 299 network courses, 1 test questions, 9 resource libraries and case libraries have passed acceptance. March 2008, "Network Education Digital Learning Resource Center Construction" project started.

Top-quality courses should be open to society

Director of distance and Continuing Education Department of Ministry of Education, Liu Ying, in a recently convened national University Network Education resources Free opening seminar, stressed that the university network education should be standardized in the development, ensure the quality of academic education, at the same time, high quality network education resources to the community free of charge, to play the advantages of Using the complete characteristics of the subject, highlighting the characteristics of the famous teachers, the network education high-quality resources through the network to serve the community, for the construction of lifelong education system, building a learning-oriented society to contribute strength. Liu Ying, the director of the request, free resources to face the public, focusing on social concerns, to play the role of ordinary university teachers, to provide high-quality high-quality resources.

Professor Hou Jianjun, dean of the Network Education College of Peking University, also pointed out that the development of network education in colleges and universities has made great achievements in the past ten years, and the network education should repay the society with a broader way, so that the high quality resources of the university can serve the Society better, and promote the network education to To make greater contributions to society.

The goal of free and open is not far away

High-quality education resources in colleges and universities to make network quality courseware, and further to achieve social sharing, this distance is not far. According to Introduction, January 2007, the Ministry of Education launched the network Education National quality Curriculum evaluation. To 2009, a total of 149 online education national quality courses were reviewed, distributed in 43 network education colleges, Central Rtvu and two provincial rtvu.

Gao Li Defang, Deputy Secretary-General of the Cooperative group of modern distance education in colleges and universities, said that many colleges and universities are free to open the corresponding resources at different degrees, which will benefit the further large-scale opening of high quality resources of colleges and universities, and promote the construction of resources and quality resources for more members of society.

China University of Petroleum (Beijing) Distance Education college Dean Zhang Yunxiang introduced, the National Colleges and Universities Network education resources free and open, is the 53 pilot colleges and universities practice the resources sharing idea positive action, this also means that in the near future, the network education resources will be richer, the number and type of the callable resources will increase. More importantly, the program Alliance member units will actively build and provide quality resources with a highly responsible attitude, and make the relevant services to provide free educational resources more perfect.

Zhang Shaogang, Deputy Secretary of the party committee of Central Radio and Television University, said that "promoting the integration and sharing of high-quality resources" is the key to the construction of network education. The construction of public socialized service system also has the meaning of rational allocation, integration and sharing of resources. What needs to be explained is that the institutional mechanism difference and the benefit entanglement behind it are unavoidable problems in the development of resource sharing.

Free resource sharing is not an overnight

It is understood that the United States MIT opened the program after the opening of the program, Internet users from around the world visited 72 million times, the average monthly visit of about 1 million times, visitors are basically divided into educators, students, from the scholar three categories. 96% of the teachers believe that these open courses promote their teaching or that they will improve their teaching.

The free and open quality resources of colleges and universities can make teachers prepare their lessons with a reference, expand knowledge, enrich the classroom, for students can open up thinking and vision, training self-study ability and learning skills, to help select the appropriate courses.

Jinweimin, director of the AO Peng Research Institute, from now on, the main problem of free and open distance education focus on intellectual property and credit to each other two. Since our country's intellectual property laws are still being perfected, whether the content of teachers ' teaching should be counted as part of their intellectual property is not fully defined. Therefore, the teacher's compensation mechanism has not been included. At the same time, after learning the network courses in colleges and universities, what kind of diploma can be obtained is also a problem. For most colleges and universities, only in the formal registration of schools, become their students, take the course to study and pass the exam, in order to get credits, so the recognition of credits for students is a very important link. At present, some colleges and universities have established a small-scale sharing alliance, which means that students can share the resources of the network colleges in several colleges, and the credits can be recognized, but not yet achieved in a larger scope.