The symbol of the third educational revolution in the history of China is that social education is no longer confined to school education, that is, from large-scale education to personalized education. Compared with the first educational revolution marked by farming education and the second educational revolution marked by large-scale education in classes, the main manifestations of the third educational revolution are as follows:

(1) educational purpose: to cultivate all kinds of talents to meet the needs of the third industrial revolution, especially a large number of basic digital workers, creative researchers, biosphere managers and excellent service providers.

(2) Educational content: Educational content is no longer a simple knowledge transfer, especially in the face of new energy, new materials, new technologies, 3D digital manufacturing technology, energy Internet and other interactive network platforms. The content of personnel training includes cutting-edge information, nanotechnology, biotechnology, earth science, ecology, system theory and various vocational skills into the curriculum system, focusing on the cultivation of academic qualifications and abilities.

(3) Education mode: New education modes such as online education, game-based learning, virtual community and real classroom are constantly emerging, which dispels the traditional concept of training time and space and realizes unlimited learning and interaction. In the future, virtual and flat interactive learning platforms such as digital schools, digital teachers, online classrooms, distance learning, online education, cloud education, cloud computing and big data, gamification learning, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, flipping classrooms and distance video teaching will become new learning methods.

(d) Teaching scale: On the basis of the large-scale teaching brought by the second educational revolution, the third educational revolution will moderately reduce the teaching scale and move towards decentralized and subversive personalized education. The class teaching system will be broken, and teachers and students will be equal helpers and learning partners.

Due to the changes in educational methods and teaching scale, the third educational revolution will completely change the educational organization. That is, from large-scale school education with class teaching system as the core to decentralized, digital, networked, remote, family-oriented, personalized school education, family education and social education, thus breaking the single school education organization form and making large-scale education move towards personalized education, which is also the main symbol of the third educational revolution.