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Network-based distance education in Chinese universities
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Network-based distance education in Chinese universities
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Abstract
The theory and application of e-learning in Chinese colleges and universities is an interesting issue. Some factors affecting Network-Based Distance Education (NBDE), such as platform, delivery system, curriculum, and management, etc. will be analyzed in this report. The methodology used in this report is the in-depth case study.
Some aspects of Chinese distance education, in particular the purpose and the operational programme of distance education, the government policy about e-learning of HEIs, the technical partners of HEIs, the platforms for distance education, some famous per-sons in the distance education field, and the problems of e-learning in Chinese univer-sities, will be introduced.
Most materials in this report were collected from the relevant Web sites which are built by Chinese universities. The aim was to analyze these materials and draw some conclusions about NBDE in China.
The cases we chose were four leading Chinese Universities in the NBDE field: Tsinghua University (THU), Beijing Normal University (BNU), Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), and the China Central Radio and TV University (CCRTU).
Source
http://www.matic-media.co.uk/ukeu/UKEU-r04-china-2005.doc
Other information
This paper, written by a Chinese Visiting Researcher at UKeU in 2003-04, gives an overview of e-learning at four high-ranking Chinese universities. It is in our view particularly valuable that it is written from a Chinese analytic perspective, rather than from a Western standpoint. Several universities and agencies have found to their surprise that favourite Western techno-pedagogic approaches of collaborative learning using bulletin boards, a strong focus on textual resources, and questioning of authority via group emails, do not necessarily transport well to the Chinese system.
Acknowledgements
We are particularly pleased to thank the noted e-learning expert Professor Curtis Bonk of Indiana University, and Miss Tingting Zeng, for their assistance in providing critical reading and updating/explanatory footnotes for this report.