Tsinghua’s online courses for spring semester are now underway, with students all over the world tuning in to attend their lectures, albeit in different time zones. Online education has presented new opportunities for students to learn and engage with one another. It has also challenged lecturers to ensure that Tsinghua’s high levels of teaching quality are maintained.
The following views are shared by Qian Jing:
“This outbreak has physically isolated students from their professors, and from each other. As a university professor, I'm working with my colleagues and my students more closely than ever, trying to use modern technology to shorten our physical distances. With the help of Rain Classroom, an application designed to facilitate ‘learner-centered’ learning, we managed to overcome numerous technical barriers, and greatly redesigned our teaching curriculum to make online learning a pleasure. This huge project was launched during the Spring Festival, only 2 weeks before February 17 when the spring semester began. The teaching ‘reform’ is a brave effort made jointly by the administrators, faculties as well as students and is believed to be a ‘revolution’. I got actively involved and worked closely with professors across various disciplines (through our common goal for adapting to online teaching and EMI teaching promptly). Since February 17, successful cases were shared and celebrated among the faculties and never have the teaching community been closer. Tsinghua, I am so proud of you!”
—Qian Jing,
Associate Professor,
School of Social Sciences
Excerpt | Online education "a brand-new experience and challenge"
Writer: Guo Lili
