The online learning In mainland China

 

Last week, I learned a fact from R685 that “Disasters, such as earthquake, eruption of the volcano, blizzard, sometimes are the reason for people to reevaluate the role of the online course” It is so ironic for some people to fully realize the importance of online course until they have no choice but take it, then after that, they became so addicted to that.

Then, it reminded me of the year 2003, when SARS spread so fast in the mainland China, everyone is so scared, shops closed, schools shut down, many students had to stay home, at that time, many schools has used some distance teaching methods such at satellite TV to teach students, some online training program became so popular at that time. However, there has not formed a systematic way at that time, but more and more people paying their attention on online learning.

Compared with the article that talks about the K-12 online learning, I just felt there has been some different aspect from China, First, I looked up some website and article, but never find some example that use the full online teaching method in middle school or high school, but they do have some blended course, but it is more like teacher using a computer to illustrate some complicated theories by the main computer, then walk through the classroom to see how students solve some similar problem. Second, the urgent need for online learning also exist in the rural area, however, without the equipment, it is impossible for the rural area to launch such online program, so now still a lot of voluntary teachers came to the small rural village, but there is still short of qualified teacher in such area.



The "so called" online course in China



And though the unforgettable “99 second” of description of many articles, I strongly feel that online course in USA weigh over the online course in China, for now, Chinese government didn’t recognize the online degree; sure, it has its own concern, without the appropriate legal and technological system, it may cause many problem, but it is possible that one day Chinese government will admit the online degree just like USA? I think that may happen, especially for some famous school, because now more and more Chinese people have the access to get the higher education, and there has been a lot of people re-enter the university to get their master or PHD degree, the problem is most of them has their family to raise, so they do have a great mount of need, also, more and more universities are now expand their campus in the suburb, so if the online course is opened, more money can be used in scientific research.

Well, that’s only my thoughts, now most of Chinese online course are produced by some training program, like the New Oriental School, they are focus on the short-time training, hopefully, in the future, some people can enjoy the convenience brought by the real online course provided by universities.