2. Purpose of This Paper
To identify the current trends in
and future prospects for distance
education in primary, secondary,
and higher education in China.
4. METHODOLOGY
This article reviews relevant literature and cases,
and explores the current situation of distance
education in China.
5. The aim is to increase the number of students who
can access resources from the National Educational
Resources Database and other related e-learning
institutes.
Thus, this article reviews relevant literature and
cases, and explores the current situation of distance
education in China.
6. E-Delivery
This e-delivery project has a specific goal, which is
over 5 years to equip all rural middle schools with
computer classrooms, and all rural elementary
schools with satellite receiving facilities, and VCD or
DVD players with supporting materials.
The aim is to increase the number of students who
can access resources from the National Educational
Resources Database and other related e-learning
institutes.
7. The term of distance education employed here refers
to educational resources sharing only.
It provide the infrastructure for teaching and
learning.
At the same time, the government also expect to
boost economic and social development through thus
project.
It targets at low cost, large scale, and fast speed.
8. E-Teaching
To help students to learn anytime, anywhere.
E-teaching, is often added into classroom teaching to
support innovative teaching strategies, such as
internet-based student research, self-study or
collaborative study.
The purpose of e-teaching is to facilitate and
supplement traditional teaching.
9. E-Teaching
E-Teaching using K12 online schools.
K12 online schools were first started by private
corporations.
There are multiple modes of running K12 online
schools in China.
10. E-Teaching
First, using multilateral cooperation among the
government, an enterprise, and a school. In this
mode, the necessary operating funds are raised by the
private enterprise or individuals, or provided partly by
a government organization especially in cases for
providing educational support for poor rural areas or
disadvantages groups.
11. E-Teaching
Second, using mode of enterprise-school cooperation.
In this mode, a private enterprise and elite K12 school
cooperate to run the K12 online together.
The private enterprise contributes funding and
technologies, while the school contributes high-
quality courses and teachers to support learning.
These two partners share the venture risk, and profit
together.
12. E-Teaching
Third mode is using hosted by an enterprise alone. In
this mode, a private enterprise takes the venture and
profit alone. It has fixed cooperative relationship with
some K12 schools from which it purchases necessary
courses, and/or employs teachers from the school.
Finally, they are using mode of hosted by a school. In
this mode, the online school is hosted by one or
several K12 schools.
13. E-Teaching
The advantages include simple relationship, high
enthusiasm among learners and guaranteed teaching
resources.
The online school has become a representative of the e-
teaching practice in China. For example, the Beijing No. 4
Online School is a professional K12 e-learning institution
brought about through collaboration between an
enterprise and a school. The school provides e-learning for
primary and secondary school students all over the
country. It has its own e-learning platform which
integrates synchronous with asynchronous teaching.
14. E-Education
E-education using example of online higher college.
E-learning in higher education is based on the
Modern Distance Education Project launched by the
central government.
This project will help to promote the change room
elite education to mass education modern distance
education has become an important part of the
Chinese lifelong educational system. Adult learners
constitute the majority of participants, and web-based
distance education has become their first choice for
lifelong learning.
15. E-Education
Running an online higher college has two modes.
The first mode is government-college corporation. In
this mode, online higher colleges are responsible for
all the practice of online education, including
students’ enrollment, resource development, and
students’ support. And teacher training.
The government has the right to judge the whole
process, and makes corresponding policies for quality
assurance in practice.
16. E-Education
The second mode is multiple cooperation among
government, colleges, and enterprises. In this mode,
the online higher college and the enterprise are in
charge of the practice together.
The online higher college focuses on instructional
design, resource development, and teacher training.
As the private corporation is rich in fund and
technologies, it is responsible for online platform
development, student enrollment, and student
support.
17. E-Education
Online higher colleges supply various kinds of
resources. Besides the online course, they also prepare
CDs and print materials for students.
The online courses and CDs are mainly video-based.
The videos show the lecturer, the slide being talked
about, and a navigational directory.
18. FINDINGS
Now distance education has become a major option
for lifelong education for adults.
Also, it is a key approach to sharing high-quality
educational resources. This sharing helps to improve
traditional classroom-based teaching.
Web-based distance education has a wide range of
levels of practice.
19. FINDINGS
The country hope that web-based distance education
can achieve better educational performance, as it has
the advantages of supporting ICT-based two-way
interaction between teachers and students,
presenting multimedia instructional resources and
organizing learning activity online, and building a
virtual community for learners to exchange ideas.
20. FINDINGS
Learners can connect to the internet to learn online.
Quality assurance of e-learning in China is built into
three levels, which are, the central government level,
the inter-college level, and the institutional level.
At the top level, the Ministry of Education has
adopted a series of policies and organized many
workshops on how to ensure and regulate the
performance of distance education.
The comparisons of three main forms of distance
education in China give the true and clear picture
with regards to the e-learning in China
