China's Contribution during the Drilling of Global Online Education

The global pandemic of COVID-19 has forced 195 countries and territories to shut down their schools， keeping 1.5 billion students out of classrooms. Online learning has become the only choice， and the world's largest social experiment in the history on online education emerged at this time. During this drilling of global online education， the strength and weakness of online education have been demonstrated to the largest extent. Educators in the world are rethinking and studying how to define future education in online education， normalize online learning and create a better education ecosystem. On the other hand， China's practices that cover various areas haves provided valuable experiences for the rest of the world. Just as Wu Yan， director-general of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education， said ：“Over the past four decades since China adopted the policy of reform and opening up， we have learned a lot from higher education sectors in foreign countries. With this large-scaled online teaching practice as a turning point， we are going to offer Chinese experiences and options to be shared by the foreign countries. In this sense， we have become contributors.”

Large-scaled Online Teaching Heralds New Starting Point for China's Educational Change

To address the COVID-19 epidemic， China's educational sector has launched a nation-wide online teaching program. This is both a pioneering work and a miracle. As Mr. Lei Chaozi， director-general of the Department of Science and Technology of the Ministry of Education noted that， this large-scaled online teaching has not only effectively resisted the impact of COVID-19 epidemic on the educational sector， but brought new DNAs and heralded new starting point for China's educational change. It will help promote the change of educational concepts， the balanced educational development， improved educational quality， as well as the building of a learning society.

Will the COVID-19 Crisis Mark an End of Traditional Teaching Mode in Europe？

Europe has attracted great attention as a region hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic. After having experienced the chaos in the early period， the teachers in European countries are trying hard to cope with the change from traditional face-to-face teaching to online teaching. Quite different from China， this change in Europe is mainly led by local teachers， while the education authorities in Europe have not taken a strong lead on teaching and learning during shutdowns. The urgent need for online learning has created “a once-in-a-lifetime triggering event for deploying edtech”， making the edtech industry become highly competitive. During the pandemic， the UK Government announced that student fees at all UK universities would be the same whether courses were online or face to face. The assertion that the distance mode can have equal value to the in-person mode will become a defining moment in the country's Higher Education. So how will the educational systems in Europe look in the post-COVID-19 period？ Will there be a return to the old system， or are we witnessing permanent change？ The COVID-19 crisis possibly marks the end of 150 years of an education based mainly in school classes， the author Stephen Haggard believes.

Quality Assurance throughout the Process Helps Promote Quality Talent Training in Distance Education Sector

According to Liang Yin， dean of the School of Distance and Continuing Education of Dalian University of Technology， as modern distance education sector has entered a stage of quality development， the institutions of higher learning should focus on their pain points and challenges to advance the quality development of distance education， create brands in terms of distance education， and contribute to the development of teaching and learning resources.

New Experience of English Learning Breaks the “Spell” of Exam-oriented Education

Qisuen.cn has established a strategic product structure of “contents and data”， depending on special quality contents and the guiding principles of “interest， habit， method and thinking”. A complete education ecosystem that integrates teaching， research， learning， test， assessment and practice has also been put in place. Using AI techniques and English teaching， it has developed a one-stop English learning platform that combines big data analysis and personalized English learning system.