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The Challenges Of Internet To The Traditional Education Of China
Guanghan HeˇAECA-3
hgh1976@163.com
Abstract
World Wide Web, or so called Internet, as a technology of information transmitting and a new media, has become the focus being paid much attention by the whole world in the twenty first century. ... So, in this new century, what impacts on earth does the Internet bring to the traditional education? What benefits and advantages will be when deploying information technology to the traditional education? What kind of responsibilities to education does Internet have? What challenges will the traditional education and the people involving (educators and educatees, teachers and students) face? Is Internet the omnipotent media or not? Is web-based education the all of future education?
In this paper, the current situation of information technology and Internet use in China education is described in the introduction section, authorˇ¦s opinions and views will be stated according to the questions raised above. Discussions are based on the current situation of education in China and authorˇ¦s own experiences as an educatee in the last fifteen years. ... Introduction
Internet is an electronic communication network that connects computers networks and organizational computer facilities around the world. As a representative of modernistic technologies, Internet is becoming a technical lever to change our world from the industry age to the information age. Unquestionably Internet is one of the greatest and most influential technologies in the development history of human being. The formation of the Internet has changed the way people do business, communicate, entertain, seek information, and study. Without doubt, Internet has had a profound effect on almost every aspect of our everyday life. ... 6 million people, or 5 percent of Chinese homes, access the Internet from home. ... S surpasses China in the number of home users.ˇ¨ The number could increase much more since this statistic only represents the situation in China two years ago.
Education is always a focus being paid attention by every country and government, how to improve the quality of education; how to expedite the development of education; how to resolve the problems emerging during the process of education, etc. ... The ex-president of United States of America, Clinton once stated in a whitepaper in 1997 that until 2000, every classroom and library in the United States of America will have access to Internet, every 12-years-old child could access the Internet. As we can see that deploying Internet to education has already been noticed and studied since years ago. At present, almost every university has set up its own Intranet with access to the Internet, and many journals and international conferences related with education technology are full of discussions about web-based education, virtual classroom and multimedia instruction etc.
China, a nation with tremendous population of computer and Internet users as proved above, participates in it as well. A large-scale nation wide survey conducted by professors Wang Qiong and Zhao Guodong in 2002 could tell us something of what is happening in China (Wang Qiong and Zhao Guodong are the professors of Education Technology Department of the Graduate School of Education, Peking University PKU). The aim of this survey is to investigate the status, development, and implementation of Information Technology at colleges and universities in China, and the report based on this survey offers a rich array of data about a wide range of information technology planning and policy issues affecting Chinaˇ¦s colleges and universities. The statistic in this report (Wang Qiong & Zhao Guodong 2002) reveals that colleges and universities in China have moved quickly in recent years to tap the resources and opportunities of the Internet. But just ten years ago, only 10 China universities had an Internet connection; that number jumped to 550 postsecondary institutions by 1999. As in 2001, almost 900 colleges and universities in China were connected to the CERNET. CERNET, the Chinese Research and Education Network, is the largest Intranet in China. ... Currently, about 84 percent of postsecondary institutions in China are connected to the Internet (Sun, EduConnection).
Concurrent with the growth of the Internet in China universities has been the development of online distance education. Beginning with four institutions in 1999, today more than 70 universities have achieved authorization from the China Ministry of Education to create ˇ§Network Education Colleges,ˇ¨ Chinaˇ¦s version of an online-continuing education program for part time students, primarily adults.
Approximate Word count = 3509
Approximate Pages = 14
(250 words per page double spaced)
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