International Online Education
A recent web news story in Inside Higher Ed reports the current status of U21 Global, a project to build strong online education by Universitas 21, an international consortium of highly reputable universities in the world. According to the story, U21 Global failed to achieve its ambitious goals to be highly profitable and to enroll […]
Professional Training through Online Education
Recently, a journal article in the latest issue of Distance Education in China, a journal supervised by the Ministry of Education, caught my eyes. According to the excerpt of the article (in Chinese), which can be accessed here, professional training through online education is rapidly on the rise in China with the popularization of the […]
Lifelong Learning and Distance Education
China’s Ministry of Education has been promoting the concept of lifelong learning for some years. Here is the Wikipedia definition of lifelong learning:
Lifelong learning, also known as LLL, is the ‘lifelong, lifewide, voluntary, and self-motivated’ pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.*
Although lifelong learning is not a new concept in Chinese culture, in […]
Sitting in Rows or in a Circle?
If I ask you to describe a typical classroom, what image comes to your mind? Is it a room with a podium and a blackboard/whiteboard in the front and rows of desks and chairs facing the podium? What do you think if I say a classroom can be a room with desks/chairs in a circle […]
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