People's Daily Online Open Class: Why do domestic universities stay put?
Source: People's Daily
The open courses of some famous foreign universities, such as Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Oxford and MIT, have been sought after by netizens since they landed on domestic websites for nearly a year. However, in sharp contrast to netizens' strong thirst for knowledge, domestic colleges and universities have been put on hold in the field of open courses of portal websites.
Fudan University's lecture "Stubborn Bass" appeared in Netease at the end of March this year, becoming the first and only university in China to launch an open class on the portal. What hinders the opening of domestic university courses? Is it resources or ideas, technology or system?
However, before she left for our domestic university, we called 1000 times and urged her 1000 times.
"I really hope that more courses from top universities in China can be put into open classes!" This is the sigh of Beijing netizen "Xiaoxu" after watching "Stubborn Bass" on April 26th.
This lecture was provided by Fudan University, and was given by Professor Wang Fansen, vice president of Taiwan Province Academia Sinica and a famous historian. On March 24th, it was listed on the course list of Netease Open Class Channel, which also made Fudan University the first university in China to log on to Netease Open Class Channel.
In this regard, Wang Liang, director of the Network Publicity Office of Fudan University, said that logging on to Netease Open Class Channel is an important step for the open sharing of Fudan courses. "in the United States, people can enjoy the courses of world famous schools through the internet and benefit from the' oer' movement."
Before the Fudan open class, the open classes of foreign universities have won a large number of fans in China. Last year 1 65438+1October1,Netease officially launched the "open class" channel, and organized teams to produce, publish and promote courses. On June 8th this year, 65438+ 10, Netease announced its participation in the International Open Courseware Alliance. Every day, more foreign famous teachers' courses meet with domestic netizens. However, in sharp contrast to the strong thirst for knowledge of domestic netizens, domestic universities have been put on hold in the field of open courses of portal websites. Although the channel is watched by 165438+ ten thousand people every day, there is not a domestic university course there.
Many netizens can't help asking: When will the courses of the first-class universities in China benefit the general public through the open platform of the Internet?
This time, Fudan University took the lead in trying to launch online open classes in domestic universities, which was sought after by many netizens. Li Kuankuan, director of public relations at Netease Portal, said, "The launch of open courses is because it embodies the spirit of openness, sharing and mutual assistance on the Internet, and excellent courses in domestic universities should also be part of this wealth."
There is no shortage of digitalization in domestic courses.
In fact, as early as when China started the national excellent course construction project, there was already an educational concept of open courses.
"Sharing curriculum resources through the Internet is a routine measure for many universities in China. But in the past, it was basically limited to sharing within schools or educational networks. " Fang Ming, deputy director of the Propaganda Department of Fudan University Party Committee, said. They collect teaching and lecture videos as campus cultural construction projects.
In addition to the previous curriculum sharing in colleges and universities, some enterprises have been doing the work of "surfing the Internet" for domestic courses, and achieved good results.
The superstar company began to dabble in academic videos five years ago and "surfed" in the class of famous teachers.
"We have a clear positioning and only do knowledge-based and academic video products." Chairman Shi Chao revealed that after the academic video project was launched, more than 3,000 teacher courses were filmed in colleges and universities across the country. The website obtains the right to record the course by paying the teacher a certain amount of remuneration, and obtains the independent copyright of the course video. Among them, basic courses and lectures are open to the public free of charge, while some professional courses can be watched by specific users for a fee.
Many videos of famous teachers are very popular on the website. Ye Jiaying of Nankai University, Zhao Lin of Wuhan University and other famous teachers have received hundreds of thousands of hits, and the course "Wisdom of Western Philosophy" by Professor Zhang Zhiwei of China Renmin University has even reached 680,000 hits, and it is increasing every day.
However, the loyal users of superstar academic video websites are mostly college students, teachers and intellectuals, and some netizens report that the content is "a little too professional". There is still a lack of mainland college courses that are more in line with the tastes of ordinary netizens.
Where is the resistance to open classes?
Although Fudan University's courses have won a lot of attention, some netizens complained, "It's just an online lecture. Why not make the contents of university classes public like foreign universities? "
Fang Ming responded that the lecture was concise in content, cutting-edge in topic selection and lively in form, which was more suitable for the needs of most people. However, he also admitted that domestic universities still have a long way to go from opening some lecture videos to reaching the level of online open classes of foreign first-class universities.
Fang Ming introduced that foreign universities have always had an open tradition of running schools. Some courses have been taught by several generations of teachers for decades, with stable framework and careful design, which laid a solid foundation for the opening of online courses. Moreover, for professors in foreign universities, classroom competition is an important indicator of their academic competition. In China, the high-quality course videos accumulated by some colleges and universities are often shot only to exchange teaching experience and improve the quality of classroom teaching.
"More importantly, foreign universities have a complete intellectual property protection system and habits in the promotion of online courses. Foreign teachers' classes on campus belong to the university curriculum system, and the property rights belong to the school. Schools can control the copyright of courses with the consent of professors. However, China still lacks a clear legal definition. Most universities and teachers are not familiar with network-related intellectual property rights. The intellectual property rights of schools and teachers cannot be effectively guaranteed, and there is bound to be a lack of enthusiasm for developing online open classes. " Shirakawa said helplessly.
At present, the production of Fudan video lectures mainly depends on the school's own investment. The shooting of the lecture must be approved by the speaker and the organizer, and authorization must be obtained before uploading the lecture. At present, the specific practices in China are still in the exploration stage. However, only 40% of the lecturers and organizers of Fudan University agreed to shoot, and even fewer people agreed to make it public. In the case of unclear rules, all parties are cautious and tentative.
How to embody the characteristics of online open courses in domestic universities is also worth thinking about. "For example, the course video provided by the University of California, Berkeley, not only has lectures, but students can also click on the professor's website if they want to track the assignments and class notes assigned by the professor, which is more interactive and more real in class." A netizen named "Kaike" said.
Some experts pointed out that open education and learning resources have the potential and trend of vigorous development. With the development of technology, open class resources will not only include the course itself, but also pay more attention to the improvement of learners' learning ability. On the basis of resource sharing, open class has developed into a socialized learning platform, allowing learners to be not only users of resources, but also creators of resources, thus realizing further socialized learning.
(This article Source: People's Daily-People's Daily Author: Jiang Graceful Xu Shengsheng)