Role of e-learning in China’s education system by D. Murali

"China is a vast country with uneven regional development, and this is reflected in the quantity and quality of education, informs an essay on ‘E-learning in Chinese schools and universities,’ included in ‘Distance Education Technologies in Asia,’ edited by Jon Baggaley and Tian Belawati," writes The Hindu.


Published on: 2010-11-10

One learns from the essay important survey findings, such as that more than 60 per cent of students and their parents say they choose online schooling because they think they ‘can obtain guidance from famous teachers in different places’; that schools have developed unevenly with respect to the quality of teaching, services, courseware and websites (content, forms, links updates, etc.); and most K-12 online schools provide an online library containing links to general resources, though not based on the school’s own courses.

The essay concludes with the forecast by the authors that e-learning will lift Chinese higher education to a new level, transforming it from serving not just the elite of the society but the general public, as a crucial component of China’s lifelong education system.
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Source: The Hindu