High-tech answer to access high-quality education
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How can a prospective college student from west China find a way to study at the country鈥檚 eminent Peking University?
Ten years ago, the answer might have been 鈥渢here is no way,鈥 but now any college student with a smartphone can access the university as massive open online courses (MOOC) have become widely available from universities in China.
The gap between China鈥檚 top universities and others, and between universities in developed and less developed areas, is a huge problem.
MOOC came to China around 2013 to let students from all over the country take lessons at any time, from anywhere.
鈥淐ollege education is still beset with problems like old-fashioned teaching methods and content, as well as a lack of teaching quality,鈥 said Zhan Dechen, a professor with Harbin Institute of Technology.
To supply high-quality educational resources to universities in less developed areas, China鈥檚 higher education institutions in 2013 established 鈥淲EMOOC,鈥 a league now with more than 100 institutional members, including the capital鈥檚 Peking University and Shanghai鈥檚 Fudan University.
As courses are available online, limited higher education resources are better utilized and delivered to more students.
In five years, over 3 million students from colleges in west China have obtained credits by taking WEMOOC.
鈥淚n the past I could only give lessons to 500 or 600 students, even in an auditorium, with many students sitting on the floor,鈥 Ye Lang, a professor with Peking University, told the People鈥檚 Daily. 鈥淣ow 160,000 students from over 600 universities take my course online, which is hard to imagine in a real classroom.鈥
The Ministry of Education announced in January the first batch of 490 approved national quality online courses, about 70 percent of which are provided by first-class universities.
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