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w88 casino News Network (provided by the w88 casino of Information)March 26, 2023,The first education digital strategy forum is herew88 casino successfully held，The theme of the forum is "Digital Empowerment, Educational Innovation". The experts participating in the forum conducted exchanges around "providing education that satisfies the people, implementing the education digitalization strategy of the Ministry of Education, and building an education digital ecosystem." This forum was jointly organized by the w88 casino of Information and the Academic Affairs Office of w88 casino.Academician Zhao Qinping of the Chinese Academy of Engineering, Ren Youqun, Director of the Teacher Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, Chen Yunlong, deputy director of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center and deputy director of the Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute of the Ministry of Education, Li Xiaoming, former assistant to the president of Peking University Professors, leaders of w88 casino Huang Baoyin, Zhao Zhongxiu, Li Maoguo, Wu Weixing, Wang Jingbo and scholars from 15 universities including Peking University, and more than 200 teachers and students attended the forum. The forum was simultaneously broadcast online, and more than 10,000 people participated in the forum live online. Vice President Wang Jingbo presided over the keynote report session of the forum in the morning.

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Huang Baoyin, Secretary of the Party Committee of the w88 casino, delivered a welcome speech to the forum and expressed his sincere gratitude to all the guests who came to the scene to discuss the future of education digitalization strategy. He emphasized that developing digital education and implementing the education digitalization strategy are the general trend of the country, the needs of development, and the direction of reform. They are the aspirations, responsibilities, and contributions that educators should make. Educational digitalization is an important force and concentrated expression of promoting educational development and empowering educational innovation in the new round of scientific and technological revolution and industrial transformation. In recent years, UIM has relied on big data and artificial intelligence to continuously reform the offline teaching environment, carry out digital lecture activities, and continue to promote the digital transformation of education at UIM. Currently, the University of International w88 has more than 60 MOOCs on the national smart education public service platform, with more than 100,000 students taking courses. In the future, the w88 casino will further leverage its advantages and contribute to the national education digitalization strategy.

In his keynote report, President and Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee Zhao Zhongxiu reviewed the development of the national smart education public service platform and China’s expectations for global education. He also introduced the international education features and information-based multimedia construction of the University of International w88, covering offline hardware, online software, computer and database professional teaching, and virtual simulation experimental teaching projects. He emphasized that it is necessary to continue to deepen the implementation of educational digitalization strategic actions to make large-scale personalized education possible, and to use educational digitalization to drive new steps in the construction of a learning society and learning universities. Based on the educational positioning and w88 casino-running characteristics of the University of International w88, the concept of "ABCDEFG" is proposed, namely AI (artificial intelligence), Block Chain (block chain), Cloud (educational resource cloud storage), Digital (digitization), Emotion (human emotion), Future (students' long-term future) and Global (globalization).

Academician Zhao Qinping of the Chinese Academy of Engineering delivered a keynote speech on the theme of "Virtual Reality: A New Support Platform for Education Digitalization". He summarized the four major elements of educational digitalization, namely educational digital technology and platform, digital thinking and ability, digital teaching methods, digital governance and educational teaching evaluation. He focused on the support of information technology for education, reviewed the updates and iterations of technology since the 1970s, and introduced the application of virtual simulation technology in education and teaching using medical teaching as an example. VR technology is an important foundation for smart education. Looking forward to the development trend of "VR + education", Academician Zhao emphasized that the cultivation of innovative thinking and humanistic qualities focuses on "people versus people" rather than "machine versus people". Academician Zhao also pointed out ten issues that need to be considered and solved for the digitalization of education from two aspects: "technologies that need further development" and "impact on teaching methods." He pointed out that it is necessary to pay attention to the new problems and challenges that new technologies may bring to education, ethics, etc., and to continuously reform and promote the progress of human society.

Ren Youqun, Director of the Teacher Affairs Department of the Ministry of Education, gave a keynote speech focusing on promoting digital transformation and empowering the construction of a high-quality teaching team. Director Ren combined the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important speech during his inspection at Peking University and the idea of integrated development of education, science and technology, and talents proposed in the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China to demonstrate the actions of the national education digitalization strategy. Director Ren introduced the five goals expected to be achieved by the smart education public service platform launched by the Ministry of Education, which are to comprehensively improve teachers’ digital literacy, promote the improvement and application of teachers’ digital standards, strengthen the construction of digital resources for teacher training, promote changes in teaching and learning methods, and innovate teacher development evaluation and management mechanisms. Director Ren saidAnalysis of the limitations of current offline educational resources,Proposed suggestions for solving the psychological problems and teaching problems currently faced by teachers.

Chen Yunlong, deputy director of the Basic Education Curriculum and Textbook Development Center of the Ministry of Education and deputy director of the Curriculum and Textbook Research Institute, emphasized in his keynote speech that the digital transformation of education is becoming an important part of my country’s education industry. The digital transformation of education first needs to be linked to China’s modernization drive. He pointed out that only by standing firmly on the road of Chinese-style modernization can we truly cultivate new momentum through informatization, consolidate the digital foundation, build a digital education system, and achieve the goal of cultivating socialist builders and successors with comprehensive development of morality, intelligence, physical education, and art. Director Chen reviewed and sorted out the important guiding plans and requirements for my country's construction of educational digitalization and information technology-enabled teaching reform, analyzed in detail the opportunities and challenges brought about by the digital transformation of education, and put forward some suggestions for the transformation and development of digital education in my country.

In his keynote speech, Professor Li Xiaoming, former assistant to the president of Peking University, reviewed the historical evolution of the digital transformation of education, that is, from analog television to the application of multimedia, and then from the Internet to the promotion of MOOCs. He said that digital empowerment and educational innovation are the next wave of "education + information technology" based on more focused use of data. Professor Li Xiaoming shared his views on the digitalization of education from four aspects: potential, goals, approaches and results based on his own experience. He pointed out that the potential of digital transformation in education is profound and multi-dimensional, and at the same time, we must also see the distance between potential and reality. Professor Li Xiaoming believes that from the perspective of national education development, the goal of educational digitalization must pursue four aspects: scale, quality, efficiency and equity, while focusing on quality and equity. He proposed that in the process of achieving the goal of digital transformation of education, over-reliance on data should be avoided, reflection and innovation should be reflected, and the effectiveness and continuity of daily practice should be focused.

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The afternoon expert forum session was hosted by Dean Xiong Zhang of the w88 casino of Information. Professor Xue Guangtao, Vice Dean of the w88 casino of Electronic Information and Electrical Engineering of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Professor Ji Rongrong, Director of the Science and Technology Department of Xiamen University and Head of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, and Hua Professor Shi Xuanhua, Vice Dean of the w88 casino of Computer Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China, Professor Wang Yunhong, Dean of the w88 casino of Computer Science at Beihang University, Professor Cao Xiaochun, Dean of the w88 casino of Cyberspace Security at Sun Yat-sen University, Professor Shang Xuequn, Dean of the w88 casino of Computer Science at Northwestern Polytechnical University, and Research from Southeast University Professor Huang Yaji, Director of the Degree Office of the w88 casino of Life Sciences, Professor Cai Chengtao, Dean of the w88 casino of Computer Science and Technology and the w88 casino of Software, Harbin Engineering University, Professor Zhao Jian, Secretary of the Party Committee of the w88 casino of Teacher Development of East China Normal University, Associate Professor Yang Yang, Director of the Artificial Intelligence Department of the w88 casino of Computer Science and Technology of Zhejiang University, and Professor Wu Chunjie, Vice Dean of the w88 casino of Statistics and Management of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, respectively, based on the actual situation, conducted in-depth sharing on topics such as the latest progress in the digital transformation of education, practical actions of digital empowerment education, and suggestions and ideas related to the development of digital education. Professor Xiong Zhang, Dean of the w88 casino of Information at the w88 casino, believes that the education digitalization strategy is the will of the country and the starting point for educational innovation and high-quality development of education. In the new era, teachers and students must move forward with the current of educational digitalization, work hard, and keep moving forward.

This forum came to an end with lively discussion and sharing by the participating experts.Scholars from Peking University, Beijing Normal University, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Zhejiang University, Sun Yat-sen University, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Southeast University, Xiamen University, Harbin Engineering University, Central University of Finance and Economics, East China Normal University, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics attended the meeting.The participating teachers and students said that through this forum, they gained a comprehensive understanding of the national education digitalization strategy, the opportunities and challenges brought by the development of information technology to university talent training and organized scientific research, as well as the practice, innovation and problems faced by universities in the education digitalization strategy, and gained a lot. This forum also invited on-site coverage from Xinhua News Agency, People's Daily Online, Guangming.com, China Education News, China Higher Education, China Teachers News and other media.