Associate Professor Yang Xiaozhe

ICI, ECNU

The sudden outbreak forced primary and secondary schools nationwide to carry out super-large-scale online education. Online education in primary and secondary schools during the outbreak is not only an expedient, but also an active attempt to explore a new paradigm of education. Even if many problems have been exposed in the process of implementation, it is also an important exploration of educational informatization.

Dr. Yang first made a comparison of online education and offline education, he pointed that the differences mainly lie in:

1. The interaction between teachers and students is closer in offline education, while the time and space of online education is more flexible;

2. The organizational relationship of offline education is more stable, while online education enjoys more multiple learning subjects;

3. The teaching materials of offline education are mainly in form of formal textbooks, while teachers could employ more extensive digital resources through online education;

4. Offline education adopts paper-and-pencil phased evaluation, while online education focuses on embedded evaluation.

Then, an integrating teaching model was proposed:

Based on the different characteristics and advantages of offline education and online education, an integrated teaching model becomes more suitable for basic education. The purpose of proposing the new model is to give full play to the different advantages of online and offline teaching and learning. The comprehensive integration of online and offline teaching has the following three main characteristics:

1. Empowering teachers to employ digital resources during teaching process;

2. Integrating the interactive platform to enrich students’ learning style;

3. Promoting personalized instruction by exploring students’ learning patterns.

Finally, Dr. Yang put forward several suggestions to implement online and offline integrating teaching model:

1. The education department should co-ordinate the production of digital resources and establish a more perfect feedback and sharing mechanism;

2. Teachers should explore classroom teaching process under the new model to promote their own professional development;

3. The schools are supposed to innovate the organization and curriculum management to construct educational informatization.