e-Learning in Tsinghua UniversityCurrent Status and Future Development

Feiyu KANG

The School of Continuing Education,

Tsinghua University, Beijing, China

History of On-Campus e-Learning Started in 1997 with only 10 courses By 1998 had 137 courses; Java and OOP were

used by 975 students March 1999, courseware on-demand system

launched July 1999, Web-based Testing System launched October 1999, Tsinghua Web School opened October 2001, Tsinghua Web School (2nd

Edition) available to all teachers and students

e-Learning Facts (2002) Tsinghua Web School

1,014 courses 25,734 users (2,034 teachers, 23,700 students) 1,080,000 login accesses (does not include guests) 180,000 online hours

Web-based Testing about 2,000 students took final exams for “English” about 1,000 students took finals for “C Language”

On-Campus e-Learning Facts during SARS

Month Visiting Numbers Per Day

Students Tutorials Per Day

Jan.-March 4,445 300

April 7,192 660

May 8,565 720

June 8,587 1,050

CoreDatabase

AuthenticationUser

ManagementDirectoryService

实时教学

课件点播

答疑系统

资源管理

测验考试

质量评估

结算系统

Education Portal

ExchangeDatabase

Data Exchange

作业系统

教务管理

E-Learning Enabling System

1. Synchronous virtual-classroom

2. Courseware On-Demand

3. Administration

4. Accounting

5. Question & Answer

6. Assignment

7. Quiz and Test

8. Resource Management

9. Quality Evaluation

http://learn.tsinghua.edu.cn/

Tsinghua Web School

http://eee.tsinghua.edu.cn/Everyone Enjoy English Website

http://ccf.tsinghua.edu.cn/Computer Cultural Foundation Website

e-Learning for Off-Campus

First and largest distance education unit in China (since 1997)

More than 100 off-campus learning centers established in China

22,000 degree-track students; 9,000 students in short course training

Nearly 200 courses via Internet and satellite

Role of Tsinghua University in Off-campus e-Learning

To provide: Authorization and certificates Multimedia equipment for simultaneous

viewing in different classrooms Online courseware as well as CD-ROM

and other materials Web-based discussion and tutorial

platform: www.itsinghua.edu.cn Supervision and training for teachers in

learning centers

Data TransportationData Transportation modes modes

Hybrid System: Internet (CERNET: Gigabps) Satellite (Asia Sat II: C-band, 6.5 Mb) Cable TV Video Conference (ISDN) CD-ROM F2F tutorial Online tutorial & seminar: multi-points

communication by MCU

PROJECT MODEL FOR PROJECT MODEL FOR

WEB-BASED COLLEGEWEB-BASED COLLEGE

— — A National Key Research ProjectA National Key Research Project

Project ObjectiveProject Objective Establish a Comprehensive System for Establish a Comprehensive System for Web-based College by:Web-based College by:

Developing a platform for Web-based Developing a platform for Web-based teaching,discussion,Q & A, teaching,discussion,Q & A, assignments,assignments,

exams, payment and registrationexams, payment and registration Supporting Web-based teaching Supporting Web-based teaching

administration administration Promoting Web-based distance learningPromoting Web-based distance learning Promoting the application of national Promoting the application of national

standards for Web-based education standards for Web-based education

System Requirements

Develop a copyrighted support system for Web-based education

Set the national standards for Web-based education

The system must be: Safe, reliable, stable ， user-friendly Reusable, accessible, interoperable,

durable

Learning Planning Learning Planning

Quality Control Quality Control

TeachingMonitoringTeaching

MonitoringTeaching

CoursewareTeaching

Courseware

Course-ware Test

Courseware Courseware DatabaseDatabase

Classroom On-line

Assignment

E-mailBBS Chat

Independent learning

On-line group discussion

Imitativeexperiment

Virtuallibrary

RegisterRegister DiplomaDiploma

Teaching Line

Web-based Subsystems Online Teaching Courseware Ordering Resource Management Assignment Management Questions and Answers Tests and Assessment Quality Evaluation Educational Administration Accounting

Civil and Commercial Law: Online Civil and Commercial Law: Online simulated courtroom (Mootcourt)simulated courtroom (Mootcourt)

Oral EnglishOral English ：： Online listening and Online listening and speaking activitiesspeaking activities

Computer TechnologyComputer Technology ：： Online Online experimentsexperiments

Art DesignArt Design ：： Online design studioOnline design studio Theory and Method of DesignTheory and Method of Design ：： Online Online

teaching and interactive activities teaching and interactive activities

Courses and Key Features Courses and Key Features

Example 1: Distance Education for Poverty Relief China has 592 key

impoverished counties

There are 12 provinces in the west

These areas have undeveloped economies and lack educational resources

Technology: Sat, Internet, ISDN and CD-ROM

Courses: Law Teacher training Agriculture technology Hospital and health

care Business &

management ……

Example 2: Industrial Training via Distance Learning Offers a training

platform for enterprise

Develops more highly skilled training programmers

Introduces excellent educational resources from around the world

Provides: Programs for 200

companies Tsinghua IT certificate Financial and actuary Urban planning Project management Management (MBA &

MPA) High technologies

Example 3: Legal Studies via Distance Learning Goal: Provide Goal: Provide

continuing education continuing education

for staff in prosecutor’s for staff in prosecutor’s

offices and judicial offices and judicial

departments departments Students: lawyers, Students: lawyers,

public prosecutors, public prosecutors,

notaries public.notaries public. Courses: 20 courses at Courses: 20 courses at

undergraduate and undergraduate and

postgraduate levels. postgraduate levels.

Student totals in Student totals in

2002:2002: Lawyers and Lawyers and

notaries: 1,659notaries: 1,659 Public Public

prosecutorsprosecutors ：：

2,2942,294 Planned total for Planned total for

2003-2004: 10,0002003-2004: 10,000

Example 4: English Training via e-Learning Needed for: 2008 Olympic

Games in Beijing 2010 Exposition in

Shanghai Governments and

industries (post WTO entry)

Businesses Tourism Study abroad

50 Learning Centers Tsinghua

International English (Tsinghua-ACL)

University teachers English training: (Tsinghua-Cambridge U.)

Online courseware F2F tutorial

Example 5: Crisis Management Forum of Tsinghua University

Thank you for your attention!

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