2020 is a period of unprecedented change in the education industry. The pandemic hit many industries hard at the beginning of the year, but online education has played a role in the crisis. During the pandemic, 265 million college students all switched to online courses, showing explosive growth in online education. So what will happen to online education in 2021 when the pandemic turns around? One thing is certain, online education, which was born in the Internet era, will be further upgraded by technological innovation.
(Data from Bida Consulting shows that China's online education industry is expected to continue to grow in 2021)
Under the background of "Internet + education", it is an irresistible trend for online education to further upgrade by using technological advantages to reduce platform operating costs, improve service efficiency and provide users with exclusive personalized teaching services. Specifically, there are several trends in technology-enabled education:
First, online education promotes educational equity across time and space. The 2019 Government Work Report clearly calls for the development of "Internet Plus education" to promote the sharing of quality resources. With the continuous improvement of hardware facilities in some remote areas and the gradual popularization of famous teacher classroom sharing and double teacher classroom, rural education development has a new solution. Online education can bridge time and space, make up for the shortcomings of rural education, promote the balanced development of education in all regions, and make it possible for the young people in remote areas to change their fate through education.
Second, big data enables personalized education. The changing educational requirements of an increasingly diverse student body are driving online education to take a more targeted, student-centered approach to designing "learning-friendly classrooms and environments." Online education institutions can build mature and systematic teaching systems based on big data analysis technology, and complete the systematic teaching information. On the other hand, in view of the students' ability to identify and match personality labels, more scientific teaching programs are recommended to realize the personalized education of students.
The third trend is the penetration of AI intelligence into the teaching scene. AI technology will play an increasingly important role before, during and after class. Judge students' ability before class and match teachers; Image and speech recognition technology in class, teaching quality assessment, learning quality assessment, automatic knowledge point segmentation, knowledge point and question bank matching and other aspects to improve teaching quality; In terms of homework evaluation and exercise bank, AI can also automatically complete a lot of after-school teaching work...
Through technology to promote the balance of high-quality educational resources to improve teaching efficiency and educational experience, our online education industry has made some achievements. For example, 51Talk, an online company with the largest market share of young people's English, delivers expensive high-quality English courses to tens of millions of ordinary Chinese families through the Internet, covering more than 500 cities across the country.
To meet the learning needs of young users, 51Talk constantly iterates technical functions through user feedback in the actual operation of the platform. In a typical 51Talk one-on-one class, facial recognition ensures that it is the teacher himself; The application of frame insertion and overscore technology, to ensure that the network peak can also provide smooth classroom pictures for both teachers; Through intelligent noise reduction, ensure the teaching in a quiet network environment; According to the ability of different students, intelligent detection of teacher speed and remind...... In addition, the 51Tlak Magic Mirror system based on big data analysis can push relevant resources to students from the aspects of learning resources, learning plans, learning habits, learning effects, etc., to meet the personalized learning needs of students.
It is optimistic to predict that continuous innovation and improvement in educational technology is driving equity in education, and also encouraging students to become more engaged in the classroom, achieve better learning outcomes, and prepare them for the future. This is an era of innovation in which technology and education work together for change. In the future, online education will drive both ways in terms of user experience and teaching quality, so that more people can receive high-quality education and make every child's learning more efficient.
