Stick to the “epidemic” line of online teaching
w88 casino News Network (provided by the Academic Affairs Office)During the epidemic prevention and control period, the w88 casino strictly implemented the requirements of the Ministry of Education’s notice of “suspension of classes, non-stop teaching, non-stop learning”, planning in advance, overall arrangements, division of labor, cooperation, and implementation of responsibilities. All front-line teachers, teaching secretaries and teaching management staff work together to ensure the progress and quality of online teaching. The w88 casino started classes as scheduled on February 24, 2020, with 1,671 undergraduate courses and 83,422 undergraduate students enrolled in online teaching. Since the start of cloud teaching for a month, all courses have been taught according to the teaching plan, and teaching has been running smoothly and orderly, achieving "no degradation in teaching quality, no pause in course learning, and no interruption in research and discussion."
Frontline teachers：Student-centered and continuous exploration
Frontline teachers are directly responsible for classroom teaching. For most teachers, online teaching is definitely a challenging job. In the face of sudden changes, how to design the teaching of new semester courses, how to choose and become familiar with the teaching platform suitable for teaching courses as soon as possible, how to choose the teaching resources that are most beneficial to students among a large number of high-quality courses, how to adapt to the tension of facing the camera during live teaching, etc. These various problems need to be solved by teachers one by one. What is even more difficult is that when all teaching platforms are ready, the start of w88 casino is just around the corner, leaving teachers with only two weeks.
For many courses in the w88 casino, suitable course resources cannot be found on the Internet. Teachers can only choose live or recorded courses. Course live broadcasts need to consider network issues, video copyright issues, etc. In order to "live broadcast without overturning", teachers must carefully consider every word they teach. Some teachers even simulate various aspects of live broadcast teaching at home for a 90-minute course several times to ensure that nothing goes wrong during the live broadcast. Some teachers who choose to record and broadcast need to record their own course videos. Sometimes the environment is noisy during the day, so teachers choose to record carefully late at night after their families have gone to sleep. Some older teachers do not have a good grasp of technical means and follow the manual step by step in front of the computer. Some young teachers have tested a variety of teaching platforms and completed various teaching and interactions through teaching platforms, network disks, emails, WeChat groups, etc. No matter what form it is, ensuring the quality of teaching has always been the top priority in teachers' minds.
Under the supervision of this year’s special period of the epidemic, teachers have rethought teaching design in conjunction with online teaching and bravely taken an important step in the reform and practice of teaching methods. This has greatly promoted the in-depth integration of information technology and education and teaching reform in w88 casino. Teachers are constantly trying to find educational and teaching methods that suit themselves, the curriculum, and the students.
“During the practice of online teaching, many teachers have repeatedly tried various teaching methods to find the optimal balance between technical means and actual teaching effects.Teacher Feng Shiliang from the w88 casino of Public Administration, the initial attempt was to use a home projector, a home camcorder and a simple whiteboard to conduct live recording in a home environment to create and simulate a real classroom scene, giving students an "immersive" feeling. However, after testing, it was found that such live broadcasts or recorded broadcasts cannot add richer teaching information to teaching content that mainly relies on "listening" rather than "watching" classes. At the same time, it requires high network bandwidth and network traffic, which is not conducive to students' learning and review. Therefore, Teacher Feng Shiliang adjusted the original teaching plan, and cut each lecture into several paragraphs according to the teaching content and teaching progress, and created a "micro-lecture" with "pictures and text" and "pictures and sounds". Students can flexibly arrange their study time based on their actual situation, and flexibly adjust their study and review time in different content sections based on their mastery of knowledge. At the same time, "Easter eggs" are buried in the course content as "clues" for answering after-class exercises, so as to urge students to listen to the lectures and evaluate the learning effect based on the answers to the exercises. Without the use of fancy technology, these courses effectively mobilized students' enthusiasm for learning and achieved good teaching results.
Teacher Li Xiaochu from the English w88 casinohas always been an active practitioner of online teaching in w88 casino. As early as 2016, she participated in the micro-course competition held by the w88 casino; since 2017, she has begun to use the Rain Classroom smart teaching software for assisted teaching in the classroom; in 2019, as a main member of the course team, she recorded and launched the MOOC course "Comprehensive Business English". When receiving the notice to launch online teaching, Teacher Li first considered whether students had the conditions for online classes. She made a questionnaire for the students in her class, conducted a survey on the students' equipment and network conditions, and formulated her own online teaching plan based on the students' specific feedback. According to the characteristics of different courses, Teacher Li’s two courses adopted different teaching methods. One course uses flipped classroom teaching based on MOOC course videos combined with live broadcast, while the other course uses the Wisdom Tree teaching platform combined with live broadcast. In order to ensure the effect of live broadcast and teaching, Teacher Li tested various live broadcast and conference video software, and finally chose Zoom as the live broadcast platform for her courses. At the same time, she also specially upgraded the router at home, and built a small "teaching live broadcast room" for herself using a laptop, camera, headset and her daughter's writing pad. She said: "Although the process of changing and exploring the teaching model is a bit tiring, I never get tired of it. As a teacher, I always believe that educational technology is people-oriented, and I also believe in my ability to flexibly use various network platforms and tools to guide students to complete learning tasks independently and efficiently."
Teaching Secretary: Build a "bridge" in the cloud and stick to your job
The teaching secretary of the college is an important link between the w88 casino's teaching management department and front-line teachers. They must accurately understand and convey the news and needs of the w88 casino and teachers at any time. However, during the online teaching process during the epidemic, this already tedious work has become even more difficult. There are various teaching methods, numerous teaching platforms with different functions, teachers’ needs are highly individualized, and problems from teachers and students are endless. In order to provide efficient and high-quality services to the teachers of the college, they understood the characteristics of different teaching methods and teaching platforms in a very short period of time, promptly forwarded a steady stream of notices and news from the w88 casino, and carefully collected various information and needs from teachers and students. Many international students often fail to understand relevant information. Due to the time difference, teaching secretaries often receive questions from international students at night. In this way, the teaching secretary not only conveys more than a dozen notification messages from the Academic Affairs Office and the Graduate w88 casino every day, but also faces the constant consultation of dozens or even hundreds of teachers in the college. The teaching management work of the college has become a day and night hard work.
In order for students to find their own teachers and classes, and understand the teaching methods and teaching platforms of the course, the w88 casino requires each course to create a WeChat group. Students can find their own teachers and classes by scanning the QR code of the course group. Many students in various colleges often cannot find their own classes due to QR code problems. In order not to delay students' normal learning, the teaching secretaries of the college spontaneously established a collaborative relationship to help students successfully join course groups belonging to different departments in the first time.
Ma Yi, w88 casino of International Economics and w88is the teaching secretary of the college. Looking back on the days of working from home, he said, "When I first came into contact with these unfamiliar online teaching platforms, I was really at a loss. I could only familiarize myself with these platforms as soon as possible so that I could answer questions for the teachers in the college. Sometimes I would I received messages from teachers in the middle of the night, and I was very willing to solve them in time. Teacher Wang Wei from our college also helped me deal with the college's problems. Without his help, it would be difficult for me to handle it alone. In this special period, we can't go to the front line to fight the epidemic, so let's do our job well."
32Human teaching team: Do your duty and shoulder heavy responsibilities bravely
In the current epidemic, how can we help teachers find and learn to use teaching platforms and teaching resources that suit them as soon as possible? How to ensure the normal operation of courses in an unstable network environment? How to monitor and ensure the quality of online teaching? A series of problems have been placed in front of the teaching management department. Even how students can successfully find their own teaching classes and contact their teachers has become even more difficult at this moment. The Academic Affairs Office and Graduate w88 casino of the w88 casino are the main departments in teaching management. After receiving the document "w88 casino' Emergency Plan for Preventing and Controlling the Pneumonia Epidemic of Novel Coronavirus Infection", they immediately conducted a survey of the w88 casino's network resources for the 2020 spring semester courses and began to formulate an online teaching plan in a timely manner. At the same time, in order to make overall arrangements and work collaboratively, staff from the Academic Affairs Office and the Graduate w88 casino established an online teaching team consisting of 32 colleagues through voluntary registration, and divided into a teaching liaison group, a technical support group, a platform docking group, and a Q&A publicity group, which are respectively responsible for connecting with major teaching platforms and resources externally, and contacting teachers from various colleges internally.
In order to meet the different needs of teachers, the w88 casino contacted various teaching platforms that can provide live broadcasting, recording and broadcasting of courses, SPOC-based flipped classroom and other functions, and quickly completed sufficient preparation and testing work. Taking into account the high cost of learning for teachers to use online teaching platforms, as well as the office conditions and office hours that teachers may encounter during the special period of the epidemic, we have compiled the user manuals and problem compilations of each platform overnight, and contacted the technical personnel of each platform to jointly create technical Q&A groups for each platform. We can answer questions for teachers anytime and anywhere, provide relevant fine services, and strive to help teachers overcome various technical difficulties and fears encountered by short-term switching teaching methods to the greatest extent, and ensure the normal operation and implementation of online teaching in special times.
Zhou Bois a member of the teaching team and is recognized as a core member who “understands both teaching management and information technology”. "Live streaming of classes is the online teaching method closest to teachers' teaching habits." However, various problems will arise one after another. After classes start, thousands of students will be faced with online learning at the same time. Can previous MOOC platforms withstand such heavy operating pressure? Thinking of this, Zhou Bo couldn't care less about the reunion time of his family. On the night of New Year's Eve, he began to communicate with Tencent Classroom, which has its own cloud platform, about the live broadcast. After that, he organized staff of the Academic Affairs Office and front-line teachers to conduct multiple rounds of platform tests. Through platform function iterations, teacher instructions and WeChat Q&A, he helped teachers learn to use Tencent Classroom as soon as possible. The practice of online teaching one week after the start of w88 casino proved that the hard work and dedication of Zhou Bo and all his comrades on the front line of online teaching have gained teachers and students peace of mind and confidence in online teaching methods, as well as the confidence to stick to their posts and defeat the epidemic.
At the same time, in order to respond to the epidemic and not affect the normal teaching and management work, the traditional work model has been changed, and all work is conducted online. The Academic Affairs Office has released information on "Application for Extended Study Time", "Grade Dissent", "Overseas Credit Exchange", "Minor and Double Degree Application", "Graduation Pre-review" and "Transfer "Professional" online work notice, improve the details of the work plan, so that students and the teaching secretaries of each college can clarify the application and review process; publish the contact information of the Academic Affairs Office and the teaching secretaries of each college, open up communication channels, and ensure that student consultation is not affected by the epidemic; after publishing the notice on the website, remind the teaching secretaries of each college again through WeChat groups and other methods, and point-to-point notifications are in place.
The staff of the Academic Affairs Office have simplified the online application and approval process for various tasks, while retaining the necessary review links to minimize the burden on students and teaching secretaries. So far, 18 students have gone through the resumption procedures, reviewed and approved the extension of study time applications of 40 2016 students, and processed 389 credit replacement course data and 410 overseas credit replacement course data.
During the epidemic, when students encountered teaching problems such as student status and academic studies, teachers from the Academic Affairs Office communicated with students as soon as possible through various channels such as the TAS platform, phone, WeChat and email to address students' concerns and resolve their confusions.
The shots that have been shot repeatedly, the explanations that have been carefully considered, the charts that have been modified repeatedly, and the backs that work tirelessly late at night, modern technology has provided a powerful weapon for online teaching during the epidemic, but the real soul of online teaching is the selfless dedication of many front-line teachers, and the hard work and sweat contained in every teaching material. "At a time when the whole nation is united and the country is fighting the epidemic, the original work and job responsibilities of teaching management are our anti-epidemic position. No matter how simple or tedious our work is, this is the stage where we show our talents without hesitation." Pay tribute to frontline teachers, college and w88 casino teaching administrators who have worked hard to teach in the new semester during the epidemic.
