Date: Feb. 25, 2022

Source: Center for Faculty Development, Undergraduate Education

Two JNU pilot programs ranked among the first group of pilot virtual teaching and research offices announced on Feb. 15 by the General Office of the Ministry of Education. They are the Virtual Teaching and Research Office of College English Courses Group, led by Prof. Zhao Wen, dean of the College of Foreign Studies, and the Virtual Teaching and Research Office of Convergence Journalism Courses Group, led by Prof. Liu Tao, a doctoral supervisor in the School of Journalism and Communication.

The first group of national virtual teaching and research offices is divided into three categories: course (group) teaching office, discipline development office and major teaching reform programs office. These pilot offices take the lead in figuring out standards, paths and operation modes for a new grassroots teaching institution in the era of artificial intelligence plus.”Based on modern information technologies and focusing on improving teaching capability, they aim to build a high-quality community for teachers’ advancement and cultivate a quality teaching climate. They are intended to guide teachers to focus more on teaching and research with great passion, so as to form a pool of high-caliber teachers and generate an array of achievements in teaching research and practices.

JNU will focus on further constructing virtual teaching and research offices to build a community for teachers' development and cultivate a quality teaching climate. JNU is making an overall plan to establish a new grassroots teaching organization and to prompt teachers’ development. It is striving to provide strong support for the construction of double first-class undergraduate education by building high-quality resources database, exploring new teaching and research models, intensifying training on teaching classification, and improving teaching capability.