Online Courses Get High Marks 【2012-03-05】

Following hot on the heels of overseas distance learning initiatives, the Ministry of Education is introducing online courses from China's universities.

 

Distance learning brings migrant workers closer to dreams 【2012-03-05】

Like many members of poor rural families, whose livelihoods are generally based around low-pay migrant work, poverty had limited the 29-year-old's higher education prospects to the stuff of dreams.

 

eBooks still some way away from students 【2012-03-05】

While eBooks lighten the load of backpacks and save trees, they still need some adjustments before becoming replacements for paper textbooks.

 

Remote lessons could cut travel 【2012-03-05】

China should do more to develop distance education as part of the effort to reduce school bus accidents, a senior official said over the weekend.

 

Interactive digital map helps bring historic events to life 【2012-03-05】

A digital map marking where important historic events for the Communist Party of China (CPC) took place has been published online.

 

The classroom goes digital 【2012-03-05】

In their iconic image traditional primary school teachers are viewed from the rear, standing in front of chalk boards - chalk in hand, the shrieking of chalk, dust flying.

 

Tibet to spend 1b yuan on educational digitalization 【2012-03-05】

During the 12th Five-Year Plan period, the regional Education Department planned to invest up to 1 billion yuan in providing digital facilities for schools at all levels across southwest China's Tibet autonomous region.