Huawei Cloud Online Education Innovation Season is launched, 365 innovation upgrade package fully empowers education upgrade in the 5G era

[51CTO.com original article] Recently, Internet education has become a popular application. With the advent of the post-epidemic era, educational institutions may face the test of offline resumption of classes, OMO transformation, and accelerated reshuffle of the industry. Facing opportunities and challenges, on April 23, Huawei Cloud Online Education Innovation Season Conference and 2020 Internet Education Entrepreneurs Annual Conference were unveiled online. Huawei Cloud and Zhongguancun Internet Education Innovation Center joined hands to invite industry-university-research experts and well-known educational institutions to discuss how to use new technologies to empower online education, promote overall changes in the education industry, and welcome the turning point of education upgrade.

At the press conference, industry experts analyzed the current status of the education industry in detail, and discussed how to accelerate the digital upgrade of the education industry from the perspectives of technology and policy, and discussed the direction of the industry. Feng Qiyu, President of Sales, Huawei Cloud China, said, "The future of online education is not to move the classroom online, but to use digital technologies such as cloud, AI, and 5G to integrate and reshape the new form of online education and realize personalized and intelligent online education." Huawei Cloud also launched the 365 Innovation Upgrade Package at the conference to strongly drive the intelligent upgrade of in-school education.

Technology empowerment: Cloud, AI, and 5G accelerate the arrival of Education 2.0

With the rapid development of the Internet and information technology, the ways and means by which people acquire knowledge have undergone tremendous changes. The size of the online education market continues to expand. Data show that the size of the online education market will reach 434.1 billion yuan in 2020. This situation has been reflected in a blowout manner during the epidemic period.

At the meeting, Zhang Yanling, director of the research office of Zhongguancun Internet Education Innovation Center, introduced the relevant situation of "Suspending classes but not stopping learning under the background of the epidemic - Survey on the application of online education in primary and secondary schools". The survey shows that under the background of the epidemic, "suspending classes but not stopping learning" has greatly released and coordinated the open education resources of the whole society, and the recognition of practitioners and participants on online education has been comprehensively improved. Large-scale online teaching practice has promoted the multi-dimensional innovation of my country's education.

During the epidemic, 300 million teachers and students accessed the Internet, and live streaming has become the mainstream teaching mode of online education. Universities, colleges and primary and secondary schools across the country have opened cloud classrooms, and it has become normal for teachers to become "anchors". In addition to the different online and offline education scenarios, which have an impact on teaching results, the technical applications behind it have also become a problem in the face of a large number of students - ensuring smooth network and stable and clear video is only the basis. Education 2.0 will have new requirements for underlying technical support. In this regard, Yang Dan, chairman of the Zhongguancun Internet Education Innovation Center, said, "From the perspective of the future development of educational technology, the education industry will be an important field for the implementation of 5G and AI technologies. At the same time, the application of 5G and AI in the education industry can also accelerate the recovery of new infrastructure investment costs."

With the advent of the "post-epidemic era", many online education industries are facing an industry reshuffle, and technology will be an important weapon to gain the upper hand in this war. Feng Qiyu, President of Sales, Huawei Cloud China, delivered a keynote speech entitled "Cloud, AI, 5G, Helping Online Education Intelligent Upgrade". He said that the epidemic has caused an explosion in the demand for online education, greatly increased the penetration rate of online education, and cultivated users' usage habits. However, this epidemic has also exposed problems such as the inability of traditional live-streaming teaching to meet the needs of online education. The future of online education is not to move the classroom online, but to use new digital technologies such as cloud, AI, and 5G to integrate and reshape the new form of online education and realize personalized and intelligent online education. Huawei currently serves education customers in more than 70 countries and regions around the world, and Huawei Cloud's stable platform network guarantees the stable operation of the national primary and secondary school network cloud platform. The advent of the "5G + Cloud + X" era has made the future application space of education full of imagination. Technologies that were previously unimaginable, such as VR game teaching, 8K/4K live teaching, cloud VR/AR/MR, and holographic communication teaching, have become possible today. Huawei Cloud is committed to promoting equal and high-quality education, popularizing ICT education for vulnerable groups such as women, out-of-school children, teenagers, the poor, the elderly, and the unemployed, providing equal opportunities for education, providing access to rich educational resources, helping them achieve employment and career development, and making online education better.

Policy support: 365 innovation upgrade package allows smart education to quickly penetrate into life

As a leading cloud vendor in China, Huawei Cloud has established the "Anytime Learning" Education Alliance with its partners since February. Focusing on "cloud, AI, and 5G", it provides innovative educational solutions and services for primary and secondary education, higher education, educational institutions, talent development, and other fields. In order to further help partners explore transformation opportunities, accelerate the intelligent upgrade of the education industry, and make online education better, Huawei Cloud launched the Online Education 365 Innovation Upgrade Package at the press conference, which includes three major discounts, six major supports, and five major packages. It is an exclusive support plan for China's online education industry, aiming to escort China's online education industry through Huawei Cloud's exclusive business support, resource guarantees, ecological advantages, and local services.

“3” refers to three major preferential policies, including capacity expansion and consumption discounts for old customers, first-time cooperation business discounts for new customers, and cloud business migration discounts for all customers;

"6" refers to Huawei Cloud's six major support plans, including Kunpeng Lingyun Partner Program, AI Partner Program, WeLink Ecological Alliance Program, 5G/VR Innovation Program, Education Center Application Priority Recommendation, and Brand Joint Marketing;

"5" refers to Huawei Cloud's five major product and service packages, including the special package for information security services (gifts are given upon signing the contract), the special CDN gift package (free to try), the free package for real-time audio and video services (free to try), the special OBS storage product and service package, and the special cloud phone product and service package.

The collaborative construction of educational resources by educational administrative departments, schools, and enterprises is the only way for the development of educational informatization. It is necessary to provide online educational services to students at the basic level and establish a collaborative mechanism between the education system and the service entities of social online education. "Use advanced technology and services to create a high-quality, professional information-based teaching environment to improve the quality of education and teaching and service efficiency. Through collaborative innovation, on the one hand, we can make full use of high-quality social educational resources to serve the reform and development of education, and on the other hand, promote the good development of online education through positive interaction between schools and enterprises." Yang Dan said.

Experience sharing, practical tips from pioneers in educational institutions

Moderated by Ning Boyu, partner of Blue Elephant Capital, Internet education entrepreneurs including Chen Tieluan, general manager of Future Magic School of TAL Education Group, Wang Xinhui, founder of Children's Painting Forest, Zhang Jinrong, CEO of Aipeiyou, Yu Dachuan, CEO of Wandou Thinking (online dialogue), and Zhang Jiansheng, co-founder of Global Youxue, focused on the "Upgrade and Exploration of OMO Education Model" and shared their own development experiences and thoughts on the industry in combination with their companies' business practices in the field of Internet education.

Under the chairmanship of Ruiyi CEO Liu Ruiyi, senior executives and industry experts including Huang Xiangwei, founder of Beijing No. 4 Middle School Online School, He Yuan, general manager of education and research of Huawei Cloud China, Guo Xifan, partner of Huaxia Taoli Capital, Feng Weixing, co-founder of Xiaoyang Education, and Yu Haoran, founder of Ji Suanke, discussed in depth the relationship between cloud computing, AI, 5G and other technologies and online education, focusing on the "trends and changes in technology-enabled education" and combining the company's practices in technology application. He Yuan mentioned that technology is actually an enabler of education. All of Huawei's data centers and network infrastructure around the world are actually designed to help the entire education industry achieve digital transformation in a fairer and more efficient manner. The education industry has always been innovative, and technology can help integrate online education with traditional offline courses to a large extent. Online education will exist for a long time as a supplement to traditional education.

It is understood that Huawei Cloud's "Online Education Innovation Season" will last until May 31. During this period, various cutting-edge technologies and practical experience sharing will help the industry fully perceive the industry's new technologies, new models, new patterns, and new trends, and work with partners to welcome new changes in the education industry.

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