Nankai University has already provided online courses for a week, during which teachers and students met “in the cloud”. In order to provide better courses, all teachers of the university faced the challenge of the epidemic and put great effort to improve both quality and quantity of the course.

To give courses online, School of Literature overcame many difficulties. The large amount of courses of different majors is the first one. In addition, foreign teachers and part-time teachers, among which the eldest one is already 72 years old, also need to learn how to use online apps. But through the joint effort, they overcame these barriers and adapted online teaching.

Mr. Nan Zhao (School of Literature) gives courses like an artist

Dr. Holt (foreign teacher of School of Medicine) contacts with students at home in America, sending learning materials and guiding students to learn on their own

In undergraduate teaching, Nankai University formulated “Nankai University’s Working Plan of Undergraduate Teaching in the Spring Semester 2020 During the Postponement of Opening the School”. From February 17^th, undergraduates started school online. At present, 3,083 subjects of the spring semester have already been prepared and online courses begun according to the university’s requirements. In the first week, a total of 1,744 courses were given online, involving 2,854 classes and 128,898 students. The average class attendance rate of students is about 75%, and that of compulsory courses is about 90%. In general, the first-week online teaching went pretty well. Although network congestion appeared for several times on Xuetang X and Rain Classroom, the university and teachers overcame the problem well with other plans. In the next phase, the university will focus on solving problems such as platform congestion, software and hardware optimization, and online support for students with difficulties, so as to further improve the quality of online teaching.

In graduate teaching, the university formulated “Nankai University’s Working Plan of Graduate Teaching in the Spring Semester 2020 During the Postponement of Opening the School” and announced “Works for Graduate Student Cultivation in the Spring Semester 2020 During the Postponement of Opening the School”. Departments coordinate to solve problems in online teaching of graduate courses. They also strengthen the examination and control of course content and teaching resources to ensure the order and quality of online teaching. At present, in online courses for graduate programs with academic degree, 388 courses were provided on Xuetang X and Rain Classroom, 110  on live stream, 14 on MOOC, and 396 on Wechat, QQ, and other platforms. On the first day, 117 courses were provided online, and 2,013 teachers and students joined the classes. In online courses for graduate programs with professional degree, 175 courses were provided on Xuetang X and Rain Classroom, 1 on MOOC, and 69 on other platforms. On the first day, 82 courses were provided online, and 1,237 teachers and students joined the classes.

 (Translated by Yuchen Shi, Edited by Davide Francolino and JianjingYun)