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China No 1 in open courses on internet By ZOU SHUO | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-14 07:12 Share CLOSE An online education tutor, or a head teacher, from Xueersi Online School guides students online at the company s Zhenjiang base, Jiangsu province in November. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]
Education minister says MOOCs allow everyone to learn whenever, wherever
Countries and regions should promote open educational resources and develop quality massive online open courses as digital public goods to offer opportunities for learning to new audiences, education officials and experts said.
China is committed to further opening up its MOOC resources and sharing its quality education resources with other countries and regions, Education Minister Chen Baosheng said on Friday at the first Global MOOC Conference, held online and offline at Tsinghua University in Beijing.
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China has created the largest pool of massive open online courses (MOOCs) with the largest scale of application, according to China s Education Minister Chen Baosheng.
In less than eight years, China had more than 34,000 MOOCs, attracting about 540 million online learners, said Chen in his keynote speech delivered at the Global MOOC Conference held earlier this week.
Chen also called for global efforts to build an open and inclusive MOOC environment based on win-win cooperation, strengthen the sharing and application of online educational resources, and promote individualized and life-long study.
The conference was co-hosted by the Beijing-based Tsinghua University and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education.
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2020-12-13 13:05:38 GMT2020-12-13 21:05:38(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
BEIJING, Dec. 13 (Xinhua) China has created the largest pool of massive open online courses (MOOCs) with the largest scale of application, according to China s Education Minister Chen Baosheng.
In less than eight years, China had more than 34,000 MOOCs, attracting about 540 million online learners, said Chen in his keynote speech delivered at the Global MOOC Conference held earlier this week.
Chen also called for global efforts to build an open and inclusive MOOC environment based on win-win cooperation, strengthen the sharing and application of online educational resources, and promote individualized and life-long study.