China Education News (Reporter Yu Chuang) Recently, the first seminar on digital education and digital teaching and research community construction was held in Beijing. The conference was hosted by the Special Center of the Institute of Curriculum and Textbooks of the Ministry of Education and the National Social Science Key Project Research Group led by researcher Zhang Guangbin, and undertaken by the Institute of Educational Sciences of Haidian District, Beijing.
More than 150 people from Beijing, Shandong, Shaanxi and other 14 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) attended the meeting, including heads of local education administrative departments, teaching and research departments, principals of primary and secondary schools (kindergartens), teacher representatives, and experts from universities and scientific research institutes. Jiang Song, member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Institute of Curriculum and Textbooks of the Ministry of Education, Feng Hongrong, Dean of the Beijing Institute of Educational Sciences, and Du Rongzhen, Secretary of the Education Working Committee of the Haidian District Party Committee and Director of the District Education Commission, attended the meeting and delivered speeches. The expert representatives at the meeting conducted an in-depth discussion on the theme of "Building a Digital Education Teaching and Research Community".
Experts and scholars said that with the in-depth implementation of the digital transformation of national education, driven by "application is king", various practical explorations are colorful, and new forms of education have emerged, calling for effective theoretical guidance on education and teaching. Zhang Guangbin, director of the Special Center of the Institute of Curriculum and Textbooks of the Ministry of Education, said that the current research on digital education is still in its infancy, and there is an urgent need for the construction of digital education theory to promote the two-way mutual promotion and benign interaction between the theory and practice of digital education. Wang Huanjing, dean of the School of Communication of Qufu Normal University, believes that the current digital transformation of education urgently needs to shift from practice first and research follow-up to parallel and collaborative promotion of research and practice. Liu Zhongbo, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Education Bureau of Tonghua City, Jilin Province, said that digital education and teaching research is a systematic project, which needs to gather the strength of all parties to carry out organized scientific research and education and teaching activities, rely on the digital teaching and research community to promote practical innovation, and promote the high-quality development of basic education.
In addition, experts and scholars believe that digital interactive courses are courses that integrate digital technology and education and teaching to provide students with interactive, participatory, and immersive learning experiences, and need to gather the forces of all parties to build together. The "Digital Teaching and Research Department" is a new organizational form of digital education teaching and research, and it is the smallest specialized unit for integrating digital technology into school education and teaching research. The digital teaching and research community is formed by pioneers who share a common educational value vision and have the spirit of active research and exploration, co-construction, co-creation and sharing.
The meeting held the inauguration ceremony of the country's first digital teaching and research community, and released the "Beijing Consensus on Digital Teaching and Research Community". The community will be committed to promoting personalized learning, teaching students according to their aptitude, promoting digital education and teaching research, optimizing education and teaching management, and expanding exchanges and cooperation. It is reported that the goal of the digital teaching and research community is to promote the deep integration of digital technology and education, promote the theoretical research and practical innovation of digital education teaching, and realize the digital transformation of education and the sustainable and high-quality development of digital education and teaching under the guidance of the national education digitalization strategy and action.