2014 is the year of education informatization construction. Under the guidance of the Park Informationization Leading Group, the Suzhou Municipal Education Bureau, and the Audio-visual Education Center, and under the leadership of the Park Education Bureau, we adhere to the idea of ????"adhering to the simultaneous advancement of platform construction, standardized management, and applied research, and the introduction of high-quality resources and systematic development." , accelerate the construction of a hub platform and resource system that is "based on user experience and meet user needs", actively carry out application training and research activities, explore effective ways to integrate information technology and subject courses in the "mobile Internet era", and promote classroom teaching reform and improve teaching Quality service.
2014 is a year when the education informatization in the park comes to the fore. The educational informatization in the park with the theme of "Smart Education Construction" has achieved phased results, and has also had the opportunity to appear on various occasions, and has been highly praised by leaders at all levels. On March 25, Deputy Director Zhou XX of the Municipal Education Bureau and his delegation investigated the education informatization work in the park, and unanimously agreed that the park education leveraged the background of the park’s informatization construction, seized opportunities, and developed advantages later, realizing the "regional education informatization" "Going around", the innovative exploration experience in the "top-level design", "network foundation", "construction model", "management mechanism" and other aspects of smart education in the park is worth learning from; On May 17, the XX City Smart Education Construction Promotion Conference was held in XX Experiment Held at the middle school, Ge Hong, deputy director of the Park Education Bureau, gave an exchange speech titled "Practice and Thoughts of Smart Education in the Park", which was highly praised by the leaders attending the meeting. The full text of the speech was published in "XX Education Informatization"; October 23 and 24, The "14th China Education Informatization Innovation and Development Forum" was grandly held in Suzhou. Director Shen Jian of the Park Education Bureau gave a speech titled "Practice and Thoughts of 'Flipped Classroom' in the Context of Smart Education in the Park", which was received by the participating experts. was unanimously recognized and won rounds of applause from the scene. Before the meeting, the reporter of "China Education Informatization" in charge of the Education Management Information Center of the Ministry of Education also interviewed Director Shen Jian and conducted a comprehensive interview and discussion on the construction of smart education in the park. Published; On October 27, the 11th meeting of the China-Singapore Bilateral Cooperation Joint Committee was held in XX. During the meeting, Vice Minister of Education Du XX specially listened to the report on smart education in XX Industrial Park. Minister Du expressed his opinions on the smart education in the park. Education gave a high evaluation. He believed that: the overall planning of smart education in the park has been systematically promoted with outstanding results and many good practices. It should be based on the "14th China Education Information Innovation and Development Forum" held in Suzhou. It is a good opportunity to carefully summarize and promote experience; on November 7, Yang XX, deputy secretary of the park working committee and director of the management committee, visited the park’s teacher development center to conduct on-site surveys on the progress of smart education and gave advice on the first phase of the park’s smart education hub platform. Full affirmation, he believes that although smart education in the park started late, the construction results are obvious, and he hopes to continue to work hard and deepen its application.
2014 is a year in which the influence of education informatization in the park has increased. At the same time, in 2014, the park also received visits from education informatization inspection groups from XX City, XX New Taipei District, XX City, XXXX City, XX Binjiang District, XX County and other education bureaus, and discussed the development of smart education with visiting experts. The construction work was discussed in depth.
2014 was a year of innovative work and fruitful results. Ten major tasks were completed in 2014, which can be summarized as follows: gradually improving the basic network environment, advancing the construction of the first phase of the platform as scheduled, promptly following up on platform application training, focusing on building an ecological resource system, actively carrying out research on highlight projects, and conscientiously implementing regular audio-visual education work. , scientifically formulating resource introduction mechanisms, initially establishing a data standard system, striving to explore educational operation models, and conducting in-depth information teaching research, etc., and have also achieved substantial results. It is worth celebrating that the submitted project "Research on the Regional Promotion and Ecological Operation of Smart Education" was approved by the Central Audio-visual Education Center as a key project of the National Educational Information Technology Research "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" in 2014. This will have a great impact on the next stage of smart education construction. Play a great leading role.
Looking back on the work of the year, it is specifically reflected in the following ten aspects:
1. Gradually improving the basic network environment
The basic education network in the park mainly includes the education city There are two main parts: the domain network backbone and the campus network. The education metropolitan area network adopts reused government network technology to achieve high-speed and robust interconnection. The focus of network improvement is on the standardized transformation of campus networks. In terms of network infrastructure transformation, we have mainly completed three aspects of work: First, we have completed the access to the newly built school education metropolitan area network. Communicated with the Computer Information Center of the Administrative Committee to formulate access plans, and successively completed the metropolitan area network access work for newly built schools such as Dushu Lake School and Xingzhou School, and renovated schools such as Xietang School and Kuantang Primary School; secondly, completed Completed the first phase of campus network transformation for 8 schools. On the basis of research and in an effort to gain financial attention and investment, the Education Bureau earmarked RMB 1.37 million from special funds for the network renewal and transformation of 8 schools; during the transformation process, it insisted on achieving "unified standards and unified specifications" to achieve intensive Lay a solid foundation for integrated management to the desktop to provide guarantee for cloud desktop applications; third, carry out a special study on "Park Campus Network Standard Environment and Cloud Application Model Construction", and completed a survey on the information infrastructure of all directly affiliated primary and secondary schools and kindergartens during the summer to form a The "Suzhou Industrial Park School Network Standard Environment Construction Standard" was established to provide norms for the construction of new schools and provide a basis for comprehensively promoting campus standardization transformation.
2. Promote the first phase of platform construction as scheduled
The first phase of construction includes "one database, one portal and six systems" and is completed in two phases. The first phase of the "Regional Network Grading System", "Regional Teacher Recruitment System", "Regional Enrollment System" and "Ecological Learning Resource System" were all delivered in an iterative manner and were put into use in the first half of the year. The teacher recruitment system was launched in 2014 The recruitment of new teachers played an important role in the new year. The data collection of the admissions system played an indispensable role in the "computer position selection" work in the park. The network grading system supported high-standard, error-free six regional network grading tasks; the first and second phases of " The development work of "Intelligent Portal", "Basic Education Database", "Regional Teacher Training" and "Education Collaborative Management" were fully launched at the end of May, and were delivered in two phases on August 15 and November 27 respectively. In order to ensure the smooth progress of the development work, we have cooperated with Fengyun Technology, the agency construction company, and have held 43 regular hub platform construction work meetings, organized nearly 30 research and demonstration meetings, constantly improved the agency construction management mechanism, and clarified the problems that existed in the development process. problems and improve development quality and speed. After a year of experience, Fengyun Network's agency construction model has formed a set of effective agency construction processes and restraint mechanisms, which will play a better role in the second phase and even the second and third phases of construction.
3. Timely follow-up of platform application training
The cloud testing, deployment and layered application training of the platform are basic work to ensure the promotion and application of various platforms. After the platform development is completed, we first deploy it on a virtual server, then conduct concurrency stress testing, then organize training for relevant personnel, and finally deploy it to the production environment to test and optimize functions and performance. Every link is indispensable. .
***In the past year, we have opened more than , teaching and learning, truly giving full play to the application performance of the platform. The online tutoring module of the ecological learning resource system involves a large number of people. It has organized four trainings for all teachers in the middle school affiliated to Jiangsu University, special training for high school technical support personnel, training for lead teachers, and application demonstrations of online tutoring for key teachers. Training activities provide guarantee for the establishment of online tutoring courses in high schools. In the second half of the year, a practical test event involving XXXX concurrency points in primary and secondary schools will be organized within the park to test the application function of the online tutoring module. There is also the Education Collaborative Office System (Education OA), which involves XXX units and more than XXXX users. Four rounds of regional training have been organized to promote the application of the office and school.
4. Focus on building an ecological resource system
The park's "ecological learning resource system" includes "learning management", "learning resources", "online tutoring", "synchronous classroom" and " Five modules including "Social Resources" are important systems of the hub platform, designed to meet students' ubiquitous and ever-present personalized learning needs.
In 2014, on the basis of accelerating system development, we focused on two tasks. The first is to promote the development of systematic structured micro-course resources; the second is to promote the implementation and resource accumulation of “online tutoring” courses. In terms of the development of micro-course resources, the "Park Education Systematic Structured Micro-course Development Plan" and "Opinions on Strengthening the Construction and Application of Park Education Ecological Learning Resource System" were issued, which provided guidance for the resource construction of ecological learning resource system resources. Policy guarantee is organized and initiated by the teaching and research center, training organized by the information center, researched and produced by the school's lesson preparation team, and key team members participated in the production, promoting the development of systematic structured micro-courses. At the same time, we explored the incentive mechanism for resource development and use to form a resource construction and application ecology. In the second half of the year, we also organized the filming and production of 42 quality courses. At present, the information center has organized 28 micro-course production trainings of various types, benefiting more than XXX teachers; micro-course resources will reach XXXX sections, quality courses will reach XXX sections, and meta-resources will exceed XXX pieces. In terms of "online tutoring", 143 tutoring courses were opened, with XXXXX students participating, and XXX tutoring video resources were accumulated.
5. Actively carry out research on highlight projects
On the basis of promoting regular application research on the integration of information technology and subject courses, actively carry out research on the application of information technology highlights.
First, the construction of 9 "future classrooms" was completed and application training activities were launched. While implementing special funds, we will unify construction standards and go deep into schools to guide construction work to ensure the construction progress and quality of future classrooms; in October, in the newly built future classrooms of Kuantang Experimental Primary School, experiments on the "future classroom" schools that have been built in the park Teachers and 50 key teachers of the school to be built in 2015 for the "Future Classroom" received special training. In December, the first phase of the "Future Classroom" application seed teacher teaching design demonstration and seminar was held at the No. 2 Primary School in the park, promoting the The application of "future classroom"; the second is to promote the pilot research work of "flipped classroom". In the first half of the year, seminars were held at Wencui Primary School and Xinghai Experimental Middle School successively, achieving the goal of "infiltrating the concept, learning first and then teaching; diversified forms, trying to flip; resources first, curriculum follow-up; backbones taking the lead, pooling wisdom and efforts". In the second half of the year, in the follow-up Based on the research activities of the pilot school, the key teachers participating in the experiment were organized to conduct special training on the creation of online learning scaffolds based on the ecological learning resource platform of the park, and guided the use of the platform to carry out "flipped classroom" research work. On November 28, a primary school “flipped classroom” demonstration and seminar was organized at Hanlin Primary School; on January 7, 2015, a middle school “flipped classroom” demonstration and seminar was organized at Xietang School to exchange research experiences and display research results. In 2014, 8 people participated in national "flipped classroom" demonstration activities in Chengdu, Jinan, Shenzhen, Nanjing, Wuhan and other places, and received high praise.
6. Conscientiously implement conventional audio-visual education work
Focus on four aspects of work: First, continue to do a good job in educational technology application training. On the one hand, we continued to organize municipal online training. In accordance with the spirit of the notification from the Suzhou Audio-visual Education Center, we actively launched and organized registration for online training in the spring and autumn classes of 2014. A total of 1,489 teachers participated in 27 courses. Study the courses and achieve good results; on the other hand, organize training on the application of new media and new technologies. In November, a special training event on campus TV program production was successfully held to further cultivate campus TV creative talents in primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the park, and improve the level of campus TV program production in the park.
The second is to organize the audio-visual education evaluation work, and won four organization awards in Suzhou City and more than 300 individual awards at the municipal level and above.
Among them, the organization participated in four competitions of the 2014 "Suzhou Information Technology Application Skills Competition" (teachers' multimedia works, online teaching and research team, integrated course evaluation and English speaking competition), and won 11 first prizes and 19 second prizes. and 51 third prizes; organized to participate in the 2014 "National Primary and Secondary Schools and Kindergarten Campus TV Outstanding Program Selection". The park submitted 25 campus TV works, and 16 works won gold and silver; organized to participate in the "China Educational Television" In the "Excellent Teaching Lesson Competition Selection", 59 teaching lesson works were submitted, and 43 works won awards; the organization participated in the "Jiangsu Province Micro Lesson Competition Selection" and 150 micro lesson works were submitted. The quantity and quality of the works are at the top of the city. level; the organization participated in the 2014 "Excellent Campus Website Competition of Primary and Secondary Schools" and won 6 municipal first prizes, 7 second prizes, and 2 provincial first prizes;
The third is to do a good job in the park "The 4th Educational Technology Application Experts" selection activity. According to the "Measures for the Selection of "Educational Technology Application Experts" in Primary and Secondary Schools in Suzhou" issued by the Suzhou Municipal Education Bureau (X Education Information [2008] No. 3) and the "About Organizing the Fourth Educational Technology Application Expert" issued by the Park Education Bureau on September 25, 2014 In the spirit of the "Notice" of the selection activity of "Educational Technology Application Experts" in primary and secondary schools, based on the recommendation and application of each school (park), and after assessment against the application conditions, 10 teaching integration experts, 6 application maintenance experts, and 2 management experts.
The fourth is to carry out routine application research work. Guided the school to carry out classroom teaching seminars and school-based application research on the integration of information technology and subject courses, carried out teaching seminars on interactive classroom construction, organized teachers in the park to participate in the "Seventh National Interactive Classroom Teaching Practice Observation Activities for Primary and Secondary Schools", and won the first prize 1, XX second prizes, and XX third prizes; recommended outstanding network teaching and research teams to participate in the "National Information Technology Innovation and Practice (NOC) Competition" and won 36 first prizes, XX second prizes, and XX third prizes. X prizes will be awarded.
7. Scientifically formulate a resource introduction mechanism
We conducted in-depth research on relevant social resources and formed certain thinking, so that we do not repeatedly develop resources that are available in society. Enterprises We try to make use of the services we can provide. We have preliminarily studied and formulated a socialized resource introduction mechanism and promotion roadmap to allow outstanding high-tech education enterprises to participate in the construction of educational informatization. The information center has also reserved interfaces for social resources in the ecological learning system and App applications, and carried out docking pilots. In March, the Education Bureau has invited relevant companies to conduct product demonstrations, and is currently discussing the details of cooperation, such as cooperation period, product copyright, data sharing, confidentiality agreement, legal terms, etc. The information center is actively negotiating with high-tech enterprises such as Spirit, Dreamer, Northern Lights, and Beijing No. 4 Middle School Online School. In 2015, the introduction of social resources and third-party resource procurement will be included in the annual budget and normal operations will be carried out.
8. Preliminary establishment of education data standard system
With the start of construction of basic database and data exchange platform, there will be a huge problem regarding data standards, database table structure, fields and fault tolerance. systems engineering. To this end, while building the basic database, the information center established a park education data standard system based on the metadata standards of the National Education Basic Database and Jiangsu Province Information Construction Guidelines, and applied them in this basic database. At present, the basic database has collected detailed data of more than XXXX teachers and more than XXXXX students from 125 various educational institutions in the district, and has developed and produced 11 theme databases to provide authoritative data operation guarantee for future application systems.
9. Efforts to explore the education operation model
Although the informatization of education in the park started late, it has a high starting point. From the beginning, cloud architecture was used for construction, both in hardware and software. Current advanced virtualization and intensive management models. As the hub platform and thin terminals are gradually put into use, the information center faces a new topic, which is to explore and practice the construction of a new operation and maintenance system in the context of the cloud era.
In terms of system operation and maintenance, we have received strong support from the Computer Information Center of the Administrative Committee, and relied on the operation and maintenance company to comprehensively deploy and manage the campus network and education-specific cloud resource pool, ensuring the stability of the network foundation and cloud resource pool. operation; in terms of business operations, the Education Bureau communicated with the Computer Center, Information Office, and Park Finance of the Administrative Committee, and conducted a survey on the work functions and workload of the Park Education Information Operation Center, and also received support from the Finance and Administrative Committee. With the recognition of the Computer Center of the Association, the Education Information Operation Center was officially put into operation in October. At present, an 8-person operations team has been established to be responsible for the operation of all education platform business data levels. Including the formation and improvement of the operation and maintenance system of software and hardware, the establishment and management of the operation and maintenance team, the research and optimization of operation and maintenance performance evaluation, and many other aspects, it can better connect the delivery of software and hardware and form an effective operation and maintenance ecosystem. chain.
10. Carry out in-depth research on information teaching
In terms of information technology teaching research, focus on three aspects of work. The first is to establish typical lesson examples and carry out themed seminar activities. The primary school section carried out research on "Construction of Interactive Classrooms under the Guidance of Study Cases" in Xinghai Primary School and No. 2 Primary School in the Park. The junior high school section carried out research on "Construction of Interactive Classrooms under the Support of Moodle" in XX School, XX School and XX School respectively. The high school section carried out research on "Construction of Experience-based and Evaluation-based Interactive Classrooms" in the High School Affiliated to XJiao Jiaotong and Xinghai Experimental Middle School. After classroom teaching observations and on-site discussions, both the teachers who started the class and the teachers who participated in the seminars formed written reflections and reflections on teaching. Extract efficient classroom teaching strategies and promote them; second, carry out design and production training around micro-course resources. We have successively organized production training for primary and secondary schools. Led by key teachers, we have carried out the production of systematic and structured micro-lessons. Nearly 100 micro-lessons on information technology for primary and secondary schools have been released. The third is to organize teacher-student competitions based on actual needs. . Student level: Organize primary and secondary school students' information technology application works preliminary competition, organize an on-site production competition in the next semester, and organize primary and secondary school students' skill operation competition, including keyboard operation, LOGO programming and FLASH production, etc., to promote student information Comprehensive improvement of literacy; guidance and organization of junior and senior high school students to participate in the XX Division and XX City competitions of the 20th National Youth Informatics Olympiad League in 2014, and won 12 provincial first prizes, 13 second prizes, and third prizes 22 people won the first prize, 12 first prizes, 16 second prizes, and 30 third prizes; Teacher level: According to the unified arrangement of Suzhou City, a basic information technology competition for elementary schools in the park was organized last semester, and outstanding contestants were selected to participate. In the XX city competition, one person won the first, second, and third prizes in the city. In the next semester, a basic skills competition for middle school information technology teachers was organized, and two contestants were recommended to participate in the XX city competition, and one person won the first and second prizes.
2014 is a year in which the education informatization in the park faces new challenges. First, the time is tight and the tasks are heavy. We need to fill gaps and innovate, which poses great challenges. Eight systems were developed in the first phase, most of which were fill-in projects, and the launch time was very tight; at the same time, all of them were customized development, and there was no mature experience to draw on, which often led to "difficulty in following up on development, incomplete debugging, easy problems, and negative impact." phenomenon. Second, it involves a wide range of applications and requires not only cars, but also goods, and high requirements. The education hub platform of the park involves many aspects such as students, teachers, parents, communities and managers. The platform alone is not enough. It cannot run empty "cars". It must have "goods" - data and resources to build a data and resource network. The ecological system needs accumulation and continuous improvement.
In the construction process of "smart education", "whether to build, whether to use, whether it is good or not" are questions that must be answered in the process of information construction, but the information center is often unable to answer or solve these questions. For problems, the responsible subject or user needs to think, research and apply the experience, and put forward clear construction goals and improvement requirements; the information center will design, develop and improve according to needs. Only when "smart education" becomes the common sense of every administrator and teacher, will "smart education" truly embark on the fast track.