Webinar on Chinese online teaching

Title: The Chinese Top Level Courses: Improving the quality of online courses in a new educational climate

The next presentation in the series of free online CIDER sessions features a presentation and discussion with Stian Håklev, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Since 2003, the Chinese Ministry of Education has supported the creation of more than 12,000 open courses with the purpose of improving the quality of undergraduate teaching in the rapidly expanding Chinese university sector. This project, called the Top Level Courses Project, includes both traditional undergraduate courses, vocational courses, and online courses. Based on interviews with Chinese professors, administrators and bureaucrats, this study situates the project within the history of higher education in China, and examines how the curriculum design process and course evaluations have developed very differently from what is common in North American universities.

Drawing examples from the role of the online courses offered, the presentation will also discuss a number of current and future trends in Chinese distance education policy.

When: Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 11am – 12pm Mountain Time (Canada) *Local times for the CIDER sessions are provided on our website: http://cider.athabascau.ca/CIDERSessions/

Where: Online via Elluminate at: https://sas.elluminate.com/m.jnlp?password=M.8B71B60F2931D029AC3837DC06B70