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US newspaper said, as China seeks to expand its influence in the world, in recent years, China's struggle to promote their culture and values abroad, a major expansion of overseas media also opened hundreds of language and cultural centre.
According to the New York Times, October 22, and now, China is beginning to use a new tool: online education, this is a fast-growing industry, has the potential to attract millions of students, has been recognized by some of the most renowned institutions in the world.
"Introduction to Mao Zedong thought" teaching people is the Marxism Institute of Tsinghua University associate professor Feng Wuzhong last month after commencement on the Internet for the first time, this course will soon receive a large number of audience, attracted approximately 3,100 students from 125 countries, including more than 700 participants from the United States students.
This course in colleges and universities in China in edX and other major online education platforms for setting up one of the more than more than 100 courses. These courses include philosophy, architecture, computer science, but there are a few covers in China deemed politically sensitive content, such as law or international relations.
In order to make their courses can attract audiences around the world, Chinese colleges and universities are spending millions of Yuan to help create great videos, and putting on courses of foreign language translations. University suggested that coaching teachers for these courses give up boring teaching style, and instructing them on how to deal with foreign students, telling them to open discussion and dissent.
However, this effort also faces some significant challenges, most notably for overseas students believe that these courses have the intellectual persuasiveness and rigour. These courses also make online education providers in a difficult position, forcing them to defend academic freedom and guarantee the balance between the thousands of curriculum with high standards.
University of Oregon education Professor Zhao Yong Chinese attempts to promote online education as its official news agency, China Central television over the past decade efforts to build an international audience.
"For a long time, China has been at the receiving end of education, now has a good chance of it. "Zhao said.
"Courses on the international platform can help spread Chinese culture. "Shi Xuelin, head of Tsinghua University Network teaching (music). "Will also help improve the school's reputation. "
China's top universities including edX, and Coursera United States main provider of network education platform to establish a cooperative, Colombia University, Princeton University and Yale University, the courses available to their millions of users.
These courses are usually free, but some schools give students a choice of payment, if they want to get a certificate of class. University courses are usually taught in Mandarin, with English subtitles.
XI ' an Jiaotong University offers a course on Chinese philosophy. Nanjing University has opened a course on Jewish expatriates in China. Shanghai Jiao Tong University is launching a Chinese medicine and curriculum of traditional Chinese culture.
For some scholars, the ambitions of network education in China, and by creating learning centres in the world over the past decade, China-Confucius Institute to improve China's image would be similar.
In helping the network course of Peking University Peking University said Li Xiaoming, a Professor of computer science, there are some similarities between the two. He said a Chinese for beginners course attracted about 30,000 students.
He said: "sometimes we play jokes on our teacher said that we are in fact in the Confucius Institute, they make use of a more advanced technique. "
Through the active development of online education, China's leaders seemed eager to copy the United States success United States long ago through the annual United States university education to tens of thousands of foreign students to have an impact.
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