BEIJING, Jan. 10, 2019 /CNW/ -- The 124 online courses from XuetangX are part of the annual selection made by China's Ministry of Education. The 2018 national premium online open courses are evaluated by the Ministry of Education, aiming to promote the online open course construction and application sharing, accelerate the fusion of information technology and education, propel teaching reform in colleges and universities, improve the teaching quality of higher education, enhance education fairness, and serve the learning society construction.
For years, XuetangX has worked as a premium online platform across the nation offering open courses and has actively responded to the call of the Ministry of Education. XuetangX has significantly contributed to the construction and application of Chinese online open courses with its resources and technology advantages.
Since its establishment in 2013, XuetangX has shown premium courses from famous universities as its development cornerstone, while concentrating on providing premium massive open online courses (MOOCs) to all learners. These courses improve teaching quality in colleges and universities and satisfy personal development needs.
XuetangX has over 1,800 courses from institutions such as Tsinghua University, Peking University, Stanford University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Microsoft, and Huawei. Nearly 16 million learners from 209 nations have selected these courses. As reported by Class Central in its latest 2018 MOOC supplier ranking list, XuetangX is the third largest MOOC platform in the world.
XuetangX launched credit courses in 2015, and it has promoted the process of mutual recognition of credits, helping relieve the imbalance of teacher resources. These credit courses are all premium courses, taught by renowned teachers from famous colleges. At present, more than 350 schools have chosen credit courses to make up for a lack of curriculum resources and to explore new classroom teaching modes.
The teachers at Guizhou Institute of Technology, after utilizing XuetangX MOOC courses, have reconstructed its teaching processes. Students are now actively involved in the classes, and their learning initiative and interests have increased.
MOOC resources and the blended teaching revolution have improved teacher effectiveness and talent training quality. That is a win-win solution for both students and teachers. XuetangX will continue its exploration of new ideas and models for the online open courses application, will perfect and launch more education products and services, and will help improve the overall quality of higher education teaching.
XuetangX is a world-leading platform for lifelong learning. It is devoted to bringing together quality education resources from schools, enterprises, and providing a low-cost, efficient access to knowledge, certificates, credits and even degrees. At present, there are 16 million registered users and more than 1,800 MOOCs courses.
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