Looking forward to meeting you in the Cloud

Tsinghua University will be convening a meeting to be conducted virtually on Friday, July 3, 2020, 08:00 am – 10:00 am (Beijing time, GMT+8), to share Tsinghua’s experience with university partners and education stakeholders, on the very urgent topic of online education during this unprecedented health emergency.

The meeting is themed Higher Education in the Cloud – Promise, Experience, and Expectation. It consists of in-depth presentations on various aspects of online education during the COVID-19 period (see below for the full agenda):

COVID-19’s implications for the delivery of higher education;
the interim release of Tsinghua’s research and practical outcomes stemming from its transition to online education, and;
identifying trends and solutions for inclusive distance learning going forward.

Tsinghua’s experience – as the first university to shift all courses online in the wake of the epidemic – and subsequent research findings that were evaluated from various angles will be shared during the meeting in the spirit of mutual learning and support.

We warmly welcome specialists in digital learning or other related areas from your institution to attend the event by accessing the following links:

XuetangX (recommended!): https://next.xuetangx.com/live/live2020619m002/live20200629m002/4184201/5968913
Facebook: https://facebook.com/tsinghua
Twitter: https://twitter.com/tsinghua_uni

Playback is available on the same links after the event. Also remember to subscribe to our Online Education Weekly Newsletter, as we will be sharing the output of the meeting and much more at upcoming issues.

In the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact us (office@rcoe.edu.cn) should you wish to discuss further.

Full Agenda

Opening Address (8 minutes)

Tsinghua University Council Chairperson

Prof. Xu Chen

Presentation of progress and outcome for online education (6-8 minutes each)

Head of Online Teaching Guidance Expert Group, Tsinghua University

Prof. Xinjie Yu

Presentation #1: "Exploring the cloud"

Presentation #1: "Exploring the cloud", summary by Online Teaching Guidance Expert Group of Tsinghua University. As a representative of several expert groups and working groups, the presentation aim to highlight the pioneering path, including the ideas, innovations and methods of online teaching in all aspects from the use of different tools, curriculum design to online examination, as well as the effect of iterations.

Dean of Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University

Prof. Xiaobo Lu

Presentation #2: "Beauty of art and design, flying against the wind"

Presentation #2: "Beauty of art and design, flying against the wind", online teaching achievement summary by Academy of Art and Design. As a representative from the Academy of Art and Design, the presentation aims to take a more vivid way of expression, present the classroom teaching of teachers and students, interaction between teachers and students, online graduation design exhibition, etc.

Associate Professor, School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

Prof. Xiaodi Zheng

Presentation #3: "Sister colleges and universities, progressing together as peers"

Presentation #3: "Sister colleges and universities, progressing together as peers", summary by teacher representatives of "Clone Class". Representing teachers of the "Clone Class" of the School of Architecture, the presentation aims to show how the teachers met the challenges and devoted themselves to online teaching. At the same time, it reflects our School's social impacts and services. There will also be sharing on "Clone Class" from teachers and students from sister colleges and universities.

PhD graduate, School of Life Sciences, Tsinghua University

Dr. Ran Zhang

Presentation #4: "Anti-epidemic scientific research of a graduating doctoral student"

Presentation #4: "Anti-epidemic scientific research of a graduating doctoral student", sharing by student who carried out scientific research remotely to combat the epidemic while finish all the graduation requirements, including innovative arrangement for online dissertations defense. The doctoral dissertations at the School of Life Sciences was interrupted by the outbreak and students devoted themselves to anti-epidemic research instead. Inspired by their peers, graduated decided to give up the opportunity of postdoctoral study abroad and continue to carry out the research on anti-epidemic for and in China.

Math Teacher, Tsinghua University Primary School

Bo Yi

Presentation #5: "Supporting children learning and growth during an epidemic"

Presentation #5: "Supporting children learning and growth during an epidemic", summary by teacher representative at the Tsinghua University Primary School. The primary school attached to Tsinghua University has successfully completed a lot of teaching work during the epidemic, and has become a model of online education in primary schools in China and was selected as the only primary school by the Ministry of Education for demonstrating the results of online teaching. The achievements of the affiliated primary school also reflect the social responsibility of Tsinghua University.

Tsinghua University

Office of Student Affairs

Presentation #6: "No students left behind"

Presentation #6: "No students left behind", summary by the working groups for student learning assurance. Embodying the spirit of "no students left behind" for online learning at Tsinghua University, the presentation will take the perspective of students and presentation a summary of the systematic effort for student learning assurance and learning status of Tsinghua students.

Tsinghua University

Office of Academic Affairs

Presentation #7: "To be a true Tsinghua-er who constantly strive for self-improvement"

Presentation #7: "To be a true Tsinghua-er who constantly strive for self-improvement", presentation by grassroots level staff of teaching management. In the form of recital, the grassroots teaching management and service personnel were not afraid of difficulties, bravely shouldered heavy burden and actively carried out educational services during the epidemic. This includes teaching organization, policy implementation, technical support, teacher-student consultation and other aspects of the assurance work. Tsinghua is also proud and inspired to have staff members who insisted to continue to work in quarantine and to remotely serve our teachers and students, though family members were infected with the virus.

Dean, Institute of Education, Tsinghua University

Prof. Zhongying SHI

Presentation #8: Interim research report "Tsinghua Online Teaching and Learning: Behavior, Effectiveness and Challenge"

Presentation #8: Interim research report "Tsinghua Online Teaching and Learning: Behavior, Effectiveness and Challenge". This meta-analysis and review of empirical online learning research are part of a broader study of practices in online learning being conducted by Tsinghua Task Force on Online Education Research (TFOER, 2020). The goal of the study is primarily to provide evidence-based guidance for Tsinghua and other higher education institutions to adapt high-quality online instruction and learning.

Closing address (40 minutes)

President of Tsinghua University

Prof. Yong Qiu

2020/07/03 08:00am-10:00am (Beijing time)
Summary. Share. Prospect

Summary of Tsinghua’s system-wide synchronous interactive online teaching solutions
Share online teaching resources, including the announcement of a Summer training program
Prospects for online and offline blended learning solutions post-pandemic