A "good online course" should at least have these elements!
No ability to coach, no time to coach, neither time nor ability to coach.
This spring, primary and secondary school students all over the country experienced a great learning migration. Once lively playgrounds and classrooms were silent, familiar deskmate teachers met online, and familiar blackboard books became electronic courseware.
With the arrival of the new semester, it is foreseeable that online classes will change from "freshness" to "new normal". From the first online course in Beijing 101 Middle School in 1996 to the present, all primary and secondary school students in China are online, and online education has been growing and popularizing. But at the same time, people also put forward higher requirements for online education. Online education also needs "self-evolution" on how to take educational value as the cornerstone and make full use of new technologies to improve students’ efficiency and reduce burdens.
"Self-evolution" of Good Teachers: From Fuzzy Experience to Accurate Data
What is a good teacher? The standards of each era are not the same.
In the past, a good teacher must have a solid classroom foundation and rich teaching experience. Grading homework and grading papers all the year round, so that they can walk the rivers and lakes with years of experience like old Chinese medicine practitioners. But in the era of online education, everything is changing gradually.
In the eyes of Liu Chang, the principal of the online school of learning together, students’ learning data has become the key to driving the whole teaching process. In the past, famous teachers relied on years of teaching experience, and one or two students could teach accurately according to their children’s learning characteristics. But once the number of students in the class is large, it is difficult for teachers to train according to the characteristics of each student. As a result, some children "do not have enough to eat" and some "can’t digest" in class.
"To a certain extent, this situation forces parents to sign up their children for off-campus training institutions."
Liu Chang believes that in order to solve the above problems, we must use information technology. Let each student learn data to form a user portrait, which is the key to drive the whole system to learn and improve continuously. Students produce a large number of data records in the daily learning process. Offline data can also be converted into online data through technologies such as photo correction and oral evaluation, and then analyzed through artificial intelligence technologies such as deep learning and data mining, so as to grasp the real learning situation of students.
Liu Chang believes that only when students learn data to drive real accurate teaching and bid farewell to "experiential" teaching can we truly "teach students in accordance with their aptitude".
In the front line of education, informatization has gradually penetrated into all aspects of learning. In the summer school of online school together, before each class starts, the lecturer will click on the students’ learning situation report to check the students’ weaknesses, and then design the specific content of this class to ensure targeted one-on-one explanation. After-class exercises will also be personalized according to the characteristics of students, so as to truly understand and master.
Obviously, a good teacher in the new era will gradually move from experience-based to data-based, and how to make better use of this information system and design a learning path for his students will become a standard to define a good teacher in the future.
"Self-evolution" of Good Tutoring: From Supervisor to Learning Companion
The parents of a student at Chengguan Primary School in Ganxian District, Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province, have been running around for work all the year round. When he was young, he suffered from a low level of education, and he was unwilling to let his children go back to their old ways.
"Double-income workers like us have no time for counseling, and in the senior grades of primary school, I can’t do many questions. How can I help? Who will coach? " The parent said with emotion.
According to survey data, in China families, the difficulties parents encounter in their children’s extracurricular tutoring can be roughly divided into three types: no ability to tutor, no time to tutor, and neither time nor ability to tutor.
In essence, the tutor of the online school plays the role of the subject head teacher, taking the students to preview before class, following the students in class, and writing down the difficult points that the students feedback in the chat area. Although there is no need to make courseware, the tutor must also go deep into the subject system, knowledge points and test sites.
After class, the tutor can see the progress and accuracy of the exercises submitted by students in real time through the background, and give solutions to the weaknesses of different children.
How to be targeted and personalized? To this end, the online school of learning together launched the "Bian Que System" this year, which uses big data tools and teaching evaluation to make a systematic analysis of students’ homework, weekly test, monthly test and big test.
Tutors can learn about the weak links of specific students according to the evaluation situation and launch personalized education services. Different students in the same class may open the page of homework assignment, and the content may be completely different. Let the invalid and repetitive homework be greatly reduced, and the time for writing homework will also be shortened, thus reducing the burden on students.
Learn online school "Bian Que system" together.
Liu Chang believes that "a tutor who can combine the learning problems in school and open a small stove for students is a good tutor."
At the same time, tutors in the Internet age have to understand students’ age psychology, their hobbies, the characteristics of online language and their study habits. If you encounter a special family situation, the tutor even plays a bridge role between parents and students.
This "emotional teacher" may politely rush to hand in homework, or he may come to an online "home visit". The things that tutors worry about are very complicated, so parents and students can have a good user experience by doing their best and empathizing.
"Self-evolution" of a Class: From Standard Edition to Localization
It is hard to imagine that a parent in Baoan District of Shenzhen could not choose a good online class for his children under the dazzling array of online classes.
She said with a sad face: "The children said that the knowledge points spoken by the online school teacher are not the same as those spoken by the school teacher. After changing six online schools, her performance has improved to zero, and now she has been blacked out by these institutions. "
When choosing online courses, everyone has always taken brand, scale, teachers and price as the selection criteria, but it seems that the localization of courses has never been included.
What is a good course? According to Liu Chang, the principal of the online school, the first criterion of a good course is "adapting to local conditions". In other words, a course that is not adapted to local conditions is not a good course.
There are differences in the distribution and difficulty of knowledge points in different versions of textbooks, which will eventually be reflected in the examination papers. For students, not choosing localized textbooks is tantamount to taking a detour. If online schools can’t improve their grades quickly, the impact on students’ interest in learning will be enormous.
During the epidemic, the online school together created a super curriculum based on the local textbook version, covering the whole grade and the whole subject for primary and secondary school students who postponed their classes all over the country. This curriculum was praised and forwarded by many education experts, media people and teachers.
In addition to "adapting to local conditions", a good curriculum design should be "well documented".
Professor Chen Enhong of China University of Science and Technology believes that the use of artificial intelligence technology can promote the transformation of learning methods and teaching modes, build a new intelligent education system based on the Internet, and form an online learning and education platform integrating teaching, management and resource construction. To build an online learning education platform based on big data intelligence, it is necessary to build a learner-centered learning environment, develop a deep, intelligent and comprehensive learning analysis system, and provide accurate education and teaching services for teachers, students and administrators, which will help promote the development of personalized learning and lifelong learning, realize the rational and effective use of technology to promote learning and improve the quality of education.
With the help of the learning data of more than 100 million users in 160,000 schools in 31 provinces, which have been accumulated in the past 9 years of education and technology, the online school for learning together uses artificial intelligence technology to analyze and excavate, and integrates the difficulties, error-prone points and easy test sites encountered by students all over the country in their studies over the years into the curriculum design to help students complete their learning tasks quickly and efficiently.
From "pen tip" to "fingertip", the education system is undergoing an unprecedented change. When online classes are normalized, how to make new technologies better serve education, realize moral education and promote educational equity still has a long way to go.