Chen Jining, president of Tsinghua University, said that online education provides a brand-new mode of knowledge dissemination and learning, which will lead to major changes in global higher education. This great change is essentially different from the previous online teaching, which is not only the innovation of educational technology, but also brings about profound changes in educational concepts, educational systems, teaching methods and personnel training process.
He believes that the emergence of online education has broken the wall of universities, so it is necessary to rethink and reshape the relationship between universities and society in order to better perform the important functions of universities serving the society; As an important way of internationalization of higher education, online education will inevitably become an important aspect of higher education competition among countries in the future.
Yuan Yi, vice president of Tsinghua University, said that the emergence of large-scale open online courses has truly realized the "flip classroom". "The large-scale open online course is a revolutionary measure to constantly explore new modes of education and teaching based on new technologies and continuously improve the quality of personnel training, which is triggering a fundamental change in the traditional learning mode of colleges and universities." It is reported that mutual recognition of course credits, inter-school course cooperation and independent enrollment related to large-scale open online courses have entered the discussion stage. Due to the credit mutual recognition agreement of C9 Alliance (the first top inter-school alliance in China), the credit mutual recognition of "Online Tsinghua School" can be the first breakthrough.
A credit recognition system must be established.
Xu Mingjun, the National Open University, said that foreign statistics show that at present, very few people get credits through large-scale open online courses, and the success rate of learning is only 5%, including the American Open Education Resource Alliance. There are only five courses recognized by american council on education, and they have just been recognized, which involves the importance of establishing a credit recognition system.
Xu Mingjun analyzed that from the experience of the United States, the most popular online education at present originated from ordinary colleges and universities, which means that these students who took online education courses entered universities. But what about those who haven't gone to college and have no education? How to evaluate students' previous learning in online education?
"The future of online education must be supported by relevant national policies, the most important of which is the recognition of credits." Xu Mingjun said that without the support of the "credit bank" system, the future development of online education in China can only dream of a bright future, lacking substantial institutional soil.