What will the university of the future look like? The informatization construction of colleges and universities has given birth to a new university model

[51CTO.com original article] In late summer 2017, the "2017 University Information Technology Integration Application Seminar" was grandly held at Xidian University, hosted by the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education, undertaken by Xidian University, and co-organized by Tsinghua Unigroup's H3C Group and China Education Network magazine. At the seminar, leaders of the Ministry of Education, heads of information departments of key universities across the country, and leaders of H3C Group expressed their views on the historical process and future development direction of China's university informatization construction.

[[201118]]

The development path of China's educational informatization

China's educational informatization construction began in the 1980s. More than 20 years ago, China's educational and scientific research computer network was put into construction. At that time, hardware equipment was scarce. College teachers were learning microcomputer language, teaching students to be familiar with computers and programming, and cultivating basic information literacy. In the late 1990s, my country's educational informatization construction changed. 20 years ago, schools began to focus on networking, which was equivalent to our country starting to build the Internet. On the one hand, colleges and universities bought computers, and on the other hand, they supported networking to carry out teaching work. After entering the millennium, most colleges and universities have been able to connect to the Internet. 10 years ago, some advanced schools began to apply various systems, including teaching and management, scientific research management, personnel management, and logistics management, and gradually developed into a one-card system. That is to say, almost ten years ago, various schools began to systematically use new technologies to assist teaching and management, and various school management.

As education informatization develops to this day, some universities have found that the phenomenon of information diversion in various systems has become out of touch with the development of the times. For example, the integration capabilities of the campus network systems of some universities are not strong. Students and teachers fill in some data in this system and some data in that system, which is very unfavorable for integration and statistics. Therefore, education informatization has encountered the problem of how to solve the problem of information diversion and how to build a large platform. This requires the dual support of national policies and enterprises. At this seminar, the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education and H3C Group signed a strategic cooperation agreement.

[[201119]]

H3C Group is a global leader in new IT solutions, dedicated to the research and development, production, consulting, sales and services of new IT solutions and products, and can provide one-stop, all-round IT solutions including big interconnection, big security, cloud computing, big data and IT consulting services. It assists the Ministry of Education in implementing scientific research projects and takes it as its mission to open up new educational models for future universities.

Changes in teaching models and learning concepts

As a way to cultivate talents, education should be forward-looking, fair, and of high quality. The integration of information technology and education will bring about a change in the mode of educational knowledge dissemination. The integration of information technology and education represented by MOOC will bring about a new form of knowledge dissemination.

Such new technologies have changed the way knowledge is disseminated: for example, Tsinghua University's "Student Online" system and Shanghai Jiaotong University's "Good University" system are both MOOC models of Chinese universities. MOOC is different from online open courses. Online open courses only provide teaching materials, while MOOC is a kind of teaching thinking. MOOC adopts a completely self-study model, providing the entire teaching process online, online selection of subjects, online selection of teachers, self-study and taking exams. If you can pass the exam online, the school will issue the relevant certificate to the student. No one checks the progress or supervises, and the student's learning is entirely based on his or her willingness. Cross-disciplinary university departments are no longer a problem.

[[201120]]

According to statistics from a certain MOOC website, among more than 1,000 MOOC courses, the number of Chinese students registered ranked 18th, but the number of people who completed the exam and obtained the certificate did not enter the top 30 in the world. This shows that my country has an obvious advantage in the number of Internet users registered, but the number of students who actually participate in the entire MOOC process is not dominant. There is still a period of transformation in teaching mode and learning concept.

The development of online teaching technology will completely break through the limitations of current educational resources. Under the promotion and supervision of the national education department, our future generations are expected to face a completely equal higher education platform. Excellent teachers and teaching content will be carried out in the form of online courses, and the form of examination will be more fair and effective. Traditional university entities are still there, but the universities of the future will enter the students with a brand new attitude. The policy, hardware, technology, and ethical issues involved are all aspects that all educators and technology companies need to consider and work hard on.

Wang Jingpo, senior vice president of H3C Group and president of China, mentioned in his speech that the signing of the memorandum of cooperation between H3C and the Science and Technology Development Center of the Ministry of Education will combine the teaching advantages of universities with the technical and practical advantages of H3C to achieve common development for both parties and also set a positive example for further promoting school-enterprise cooperation. H3C Group, a subsidiary of Tsinghua Unigroup, will take the promotion of educational informatization as its own responsibility. Under the guidance of the national IT strategy, it will give full play to the role of the new IT leader, stand together with schools, governments, and ecological partners, and vigorously promote the construction of smart campuses and future universities.

About H3C <br /> H3C Group (H3C for short) is a global leader in new IT solutions, dedicated to the R&D, production, consulting, sales and services of new IT solutions and products. It has a full range of H3C® branded servers, storage, network, security, hyper-converged systems and IT management systems, and is able to provide one-stop, all-round IT solutions including big interconnection, big security, cloud computing, big data and IT consulting services. At the same time, H3C is also the exclusive provider of HPE® branded servers, storage and technical services in China.

With the development of China's educational informatization, H3C's new IT solutions have served more than 2,400 universities and research institutes, including all 985/211 universities, and the three-link project construction of more than 600 education bureaus, covering education cloud, network, terminal, big data, server, storage, supercomputing and IT consulting.

[51CTO original article, please indicate the original author and source as 51CTO.com when reprinting on partner sites]