A Brief Discussion About the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Teaching in Colleges and Universities of China

In China, education is being impacted by Coronavirus Disease 2019, known as COVID-19 for short, which affects millions of families. Under such a special circumstance, higher education is supposed to not only shoulder its mission of teaching and educating, transferring knowledge, but also assume the...

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Published in2020 International Conference on E-Commerce and Internet Technology (ECIT) pp. 167 - 170
Main Authors Feng, Xiao-Li, Hu, Xu-Ce, Fan, Kai-Yang, Yu, Tai
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.04.2020
Subjects
Aerospace electronics
Corona Virus Disease 2019
COVID-19
Diseases
Distance learning
Education
Electronic commerce
epidemic emergency
Epidemics
Information technology
Internet
online teaching
Prevention and mitigation
teaching in colleges and universities
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Summary:In China, education is being impacted by Coronavirus Disease 2019, known as COVID-19 for short, which affects millions of families. Under such a special circumstance, higher education is supposed to not only shoulder its mission of teaching and educating, transferring knowledge, but also assume the heavy responsibility of maintaining social stability and building spiritual home. Under this general situation, in which Chinese puts epidemic prevention and control first, colleges and universities gradually carry out online teaching in China. However, a variety of problems surface in this practice. How about the effectiveness of the online teaching? What are the challenges faced by higher education? Can online teaching meet the educational demand in this special period? The authors consider the characteristics of the epidemic emergency, the challenges faced by teaching in colleges and universities, and the current teaching mode, and put forward some suggestions for the current practice, hoping to provide reference and inspiration for the practice of online teaching in colleges and universities.
DOI:10.1109/ECIT50008.2020.00044