Internet is changing the face of the whole society at an unpredictable speed. In the trend of mass entrepreneurship and innovation, "internet plus" has become a powerful force to promote change, and education has also joined this army of change and become the main force in the wave of innovation.
Then, when education is connected with the internet and high technology, what revolutionary changes can digitalization and intelligence bring to the change of educational ecology? What kind of original intention and core must be adhered to in this change? How will the future of "Internet+Education" be optimized by big data? In this innovation week's industry trend forum, people from all fields of the industry fully exchanged ideas and produced a profound spark of thought.
Science and technology change educational ecology
What role can high technology play in education?
Education informatization and modernization have always been the development concept of education in China. Wang, director of the Central Audio-visual Education Center, said that China has made rapid progress in broadband network and inter-school communication. Now more than 80% of schools are connected to broadband network, and more than 80% of classrooms are connected to multimedia. The data shows that there are more than 5 million classrooms connected to the Internet and interactive media, of which about 1/3 can realize network interoperability. "Under such circumstances, high-quality resources can enter all places of daily teaching through the Internet."
The year before last, the Ministry of Education implemented a project to improve the ability of educational informatization. There are two aspects to the standards of the project. One is to optimize the teaching process in multimedia classrooms, and the other is to innovate the teaching mode in mobile, interconnected and even intelligent teaching. Wang said to him.
Wang believes that education in China should move from chalk, blackboard or completely face-to-face education to mixed teaching in the 13th Five-Year Plan. This kind of mixed teaching is the superposition of the relationship between people and the relationship between people and the network. In this overlapping process, we will need more networks, more online relationships and online communication, and more online resources to share with each other.
In fact, with the encouragement of "double innovation" strategy and the promotion of Internet development, education has shown a vivid situation of deep integration with science and technology under the guidance of Zhongguancun Internet Education Innovation Center.
In the "Internet+Education" Innovation Week, a "VR live-action online teaching" displayed interactively by Ke Qiao attracted many fans to "compete for classes"-when seeing the teacher's avatar role on the African prairie leading the students to know the animals on the grassland, the students touched the elephant's long nose with novelty and excitement, compared with giraffes, and looked at the rhinoceros running over ... The feeling of "being there" was wonderful.
As we all know, the most acceptable way of education is not preaching, but subtly entertaining. In this "VR Live Online Teaching", people really saw that technology makes education interesting and learning as easy and happy as traveling.
"Virtual reality is the next change that will open people's lives. The reason why Ke Qiao Interactive chose' VR+Education' is inseparable from the team's own deep cultivation in the education industry for many years and the value of VR itself. " Wu Shuo, co-founder of Ke Qiao Interactive, "The purpose of our education is to think that VR itself can really make learning more interesting. In addition, we also hope that it is a "sharp weapon" of quality education, not an "accomplice" of exam-oriented education. In the past few years, many IT technology applications have become' accomplices' in children's exam-oriented education, helping others to brush questions and test questions. We hope that new technologies will help children. "
Which subjects are suitable for VR courses? Wu Shuo, "In fact, as long as the courses related to image thinking are suitable for virtual reality-from English, physics, chemistry, biology, natural science to astronomy and even sports, they can all be realized by VR." Ke Qiao Interactive has also built the world's first VR classroom immersive online teaching platform, including a learning center, a sports center, a popular science center and an audio-visual education center, where children can explore the mysterious world, stimulate interest, enlighten wisdom and sow the seeds of their dreams.
"internet plus" and high technology are still pushing education reform.
With the approach of 20 17 college entrance examination reform, the "shift system" in middle schools will be popularized due to the disunity of elective courses, but how to operate it? How to realize automatic course arrangement? This makes middle schools all over the country "confused". Yang Dan, deputy general manager of Zhongguancun Internet Education Innovation Center, revealed that many schools have turned their attention to the innovation center, eager to find the direction of answering questions here. "In fact, some enterprises have made breakthroughs in this regard, and now they are gradually piloting in several middle schools in Beijing."
Innovation insists that content is king.
When technology is growing with each passing day, the question comes again: Is technology omnipotent?
As an investor, Shan Li, vice president of Zhimei Group, calmly and objectively combed the current hot VR investment situation, and affirmed that Ke Qiao Interactive developed VR technology based on its accumulation in the education industry for more than ten years. "Only by relying on the resources and reserves of this industry and the presentation of VR technology can we become a content startup company that will make certain achievements in the future."
With the rapid development of science and technology, taking content as the center, respecting the laws of education and adhering to the essence of education have become the issues repeatedly mentioned by many experts and scholars. The process of education is quite complicated. Guo Pai, chairman of Victor English, even thinks that if we don't combine with the Internet according to the basic principles and laws of education, it will easily lead to big problems.
Yang Dan said that Internet education is not a simple sum of Internet and education. Internet education first belongs to the category of education, but education is different from general products. It has rich connotations, humanistic feelings and multiple levels, which is not only technical upgrading and ability training, but also knowledge accumulation and cultural inheritance. Therefore, Internet education should always emphasize that "content is king", and the Internet is only a tool and way to realize content.
Nasser, Chinese Chairman of the International Department of the High School Attached to Beijing Normal University, told Quan Lun that taking VR technology as an example, the application of technology in schools should be more generally an auxiliary teaching method. This "assistance" has two aspects: language teaching and scientific fields, such as biology, physics and chemistry, which involve many phenomena and need children to understand. It turns out that all the knowledge children learn is words, pictures or videos, which is not as intuitive and real as VR.
Compared with the traditional offline mode, online users of Internet education dominate the choice of products and services more than before. If the providers of products and services can't provide high-quality content, they will lose their core competitive advantage.
The essence of education is to serve learning and students, so the content is the other side of the king, that is, student-centered, and of course it also needs the cooperation of students. Liao, director of innovative learning at the Institute of Digital Education, Taiwan Province Provincial Pension Committee, China, believes that innovative learning methods must be learner-centered and integrated into work and life, so that everyone can learn anytime, anywhere.
"According to incomplete statistics, there are currently more than 170 large-scale open online course platforms in China. More and more universities began to get involved in it from suspicion and wait-and-see, and more and more people applied large-scale open online courses to teaching. " Jiao Jianli, deputy dean of the School of Education Information Technology of South China Normal University and deputy director of the Future Education Research Center, said that some people are worried about the quality of massive open online courses. In fact, as long as learners do, learn and complete tasks according to the requirements of massive open online courses, how can they not learn anything?
Nie Fenghua, deputy director of the Online Education Research Center of the Ministry of Education, deputy secretary-general of Tsinghua University and chairman of Tang Xue Online, said that the essence of large-scale open online courses is learner-centered, and learners choose their own learning practices, places, partners, contents and processes. Only by shaping value, cultivating ability and imparting knowledge can a truly large-scale open online course be realized. In the future education, teaching and learning based on big data, personalization, mixing, intelligence, gamification and internationalization will become the new trend of education.
Big data gives analysis and prediction.
There is a saying that computers know themselves better than students. It is a powerful analytical ability of big data-students use computers to answer questions while generating massive amounts of data. Big data analysis technology can tell teachers: which questions are too easy for everyone, and the answer is invalid labor; What questions are too difficult, what knowledge points most students are stuck in, whether students take notes in specific paragraphs, and whether they give up reading before the end of the article ... These data can reveal learning strategies.
"The most valuable thing of Khan Academy is not the video, but the data, the data behind the data. Through these data, we can simulate learners' knowledge structure and ability structure, and carry out accurate, directional and personalized education. This is its core value. "Yu Shengquan, executive director of Beijing Normal University's Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education, said that after big data education is connected through the Internet, it can collect data from all samples and the whole process." For example, it also gets 90 points. Maybe there are several people with completely different personalities behind them. Data can reveal students' personality; In addition, our traditional education data aims to highlight the group level. Education big data focuses on students' ability to change, the track of change and growth, and the micro-performance of students. Big data can give learners' learning paths and learners' abilities. It can accurately reveal learners' knowledge structure, ability structure, emotional structure and institutional health structure. "
"Data improvement learning has three core elements: feedback, personalization and probability prediction." Professor Meyer, Internet Institute, Oxford University? Schoenberg and big data development commentator Kenneth? Cookeye wrote in Walking with Big Data: In the future, learning will no longer be carried out in the same order and rhythm according to a given textbook, subject or course, but there will be thousands of different combinations. Teachers no longer need to rely on subjective judgment to choose the most suitable books for teaching. Big data analysis will guide them to choose the most effective textbooks and support further improvement and personal customization.
Yu Shengquan predicted that in the future, education data will become the most important asset of the school, and the school will become the base of the education big data ecosystem. Through in-depth analysis of the data in the learning process and statistical induction according to historical data, offline accurate description can be carried out; You can also carry out diagnostic analysis to find the key problems behind the phenomenon; In addition, we can also do forecast analysis, which can form a forecast under the changeable, uncertain and turbulent background.
With statistical analysis, diagnostic analysis and predictive analysis, we can form an education system, and then promote the formation of an education system with individual development-from the previous one-size-fits-all model to accurate data based on students, providing accurate teaching for learners, providing authoritative sources of knowledge, and providing accurate learning content and learning activities, "thus forming a change in the relationship between education and production."
Transform education and learning methods with technology, adhere to the core of "content is king" and learner-centered, and seize the historical opportunity brought by big data ... "Internet+Education" Innovation Week not only promotes the deep integration of "Internet+Education" innovation and creativity, but also brings these beneficial thoughts, which provides an important reference for the development of innovative enterprises in Internet education.
In view of the unique attribute of "preaching and teaching", Internet education, as an entrepreneurial discipline, can be described as "easy to enter school but difficult to graduate". Yang Dan said, "We are closely integrating politics, production, learning and research to promote innovation and entrepreneurship at a deeper and higher level and promote the sustained and healthy development of the Internet education industry in China."