宁波诺丁汉大学开启全面线上教学 UNNC launches online teaching

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2024-09-27

Please scroll down for the English version - University of Nottingham Ningbo China launches online teaching.

纵身处五洲四海，

却在直播课堂相见，

昨天，

大家期盼已久的云课堂如约而至，

宁诺正式开启全面线上教学模式！

在线教学第一课

上午9点，大二土木工程的曹非凡已经一切就绪，准备开始上课。打开线上教学平台（Moodle），他发现第一周课程的教学视频已多数上传。他选择先上小组设计（Group Design Project）这门课，是考虑到这门课程交作业时间较早。“这就是在线学习的好处了，可以灵活安排自己的学习进度。”

计算机科学系大二学生徐辰表示，下午1点Prapa Rattadilok老师的数据库与接口（Databases and Interfaces）直播课程是他认为的“最佳网课”。“上课前先要做一份测试，测试预习情况，测试通过才能解锁网课，上完网课还有课后测验。整个体验有点像打游戏通关，感觉很有意思。”

同一时间段，商学院马青平老师的应用计量经济学课堂上，尽管Zoom直播平台不支持送火箭功能，有同学忍不住手动打字为马老师送出一个火箭，实在是因为“马老师太可爱了”。大四的王同学说，“我们这节课的形式是马老师先把有语音讲解的PPT提前放到Moodle上让我们学习。课堂时间采用直播，主要是他简述PPT并给我们答疑。感觉马老师是第一次体验当主播，全程笑脸，整个课堂氛围非常好。”

人文社科学院英语与应用语言学的同学则表示，老师在语言学的课件里，将重点用鲜明的颜色标出，时常提醒大家记笔记并留出停顿的时间，很贴心。一位学日语的同学觉得在家循环播放带音频的PPT很“魔性”，同时她非常期待和老师预约的线上口语课。

据悉，按照一课一案的原则，宁波诺丁汉大学2020年春季学期共开设441门线上课程，预计全校将有近8000名学生和400多名学术教师参与。

跨越时区和距离，只为上好这堂课

为了上好线上教学课，老师们纷纷卯足了劲，认真积极应对远程教学工作带来的各项挑战。一月，老师们就已经开始进行线上教学的准备工作，二月初就有三分之一的学术教师，在航班停飞的情况下，多次转机返校准备在线教学。他们不断熟悉、反复测试和调整，希望给学生高质量的教学和体验。

图书馆馆长闫春梅说，为方便老师们之间的交流，图书馆搭建了一个在线教学交流群，这个群自二月以来全天候活跃。

“视频格式转换压缩、软件优缺点、使用攻略、乃至直播的‘战术’细节，经常是某位老师提出一个问题，技术人员还没来得及回复，其他老师已经立刻开始接龙，集思广益把问题解决了。”

电子与电气工程系关秋峰博士在过去的三年中一直在尝试混合教学。

我会把一个主题的介绍性讲座录制好放到Moodle上，然后在课堂上就可以将重点放在更难的话题上。”

这次他作为理工学院e-learning工作组的核心成员，一己之力录制了14个“线上教学软件实操”视频与校内教师们分享。

许多老师们更是克服时差，工作到深夜。昨天建筑与建筑环境系的建筑设计实践（Architectural Design Studio）这门课，从北京时间早上9点半一直上到了晚上7点半。最不容易的是，这门课由四位老师轮番上课。现在一位在中国、另外三位身处欧洲的不同国家。据悉，此前四位老师经过多次的开会讨论，制定了最大化利用各自时间的课程方案，在互相之间都有时差的情况下，最终做到了课堂上的无缝衔接。

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一课一案，多方保障

为确保疫情防控形势下教学工作有序进行，学校自1月22日即成立疫情防控工作领导小组及教学工作专项小组，由教学副校长牵头，各院系结合专业特点制定教学计划和专业实施方案。

“我们要求各院系一定要做到一课一案”，教务办公室主任杨珉表示，学校提供了一系列的线上教学软件和平台，授课老师可以根据专业课程特点自主选择适合的线上教学方式，相关院系再安排资深教学主管把关课程质量，力保教学进度和质量。

图书馆技术服务团队与学校信息技术服务部（以下简称IT）也通力合作，自2月1日起就不曾休息持续奋战在工作岗位上，为全校师生提供远程教学服务。

图书馆针对学术教师专门在线上开设了一门教学指导课程，内容涵盖讲座录制、同步课堂、主动学习、小型课堂、评价等五大方面；同时，联合英国诺丁汉大学教学团队开设了为期两周的在线教学课程。两门培训课程收获教师们一致好评。

IT部门主任华威也表示，为保障各个在线教学平台稳定可靠运行，他们在年前就已完成本校国际专线的部署和国内带宽的扩容，保证在非常时期网络的稳定和安全。通过前期大量的对接和集成工作，现在老师们可以在Moodle上接入Microsoft Teams，Panopto，Rogo等在线工具，以实时或非实时方式与学生互动，并及时接受反馈。

“在线教学对所有师生来说都是一次全新的尝试和挑战。希望大家互相支持，共同克服困难”，教学副校长May Tan-Mullins教授说，学校一定会密切跟踪课程质量，及时收集来自教师和学生的双向反馈，积极帮助课程相关老师与学生。期待在线教学结束时，宁诺能交出一份有所成就的答卷。

University of Nottingham Ningbo China launches online teaching

3 March: The University of Nottingham Ningbo China (UNNC) started its spring semester teaching yesterday, amid the COVID-19 outbreak.

This move to online teaching and learning involves virtually all taught courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Around 8,000 students and over 400 teaching staff have remotely taken part in the classes from all across China and as far away as Europe and Africa.

Having had the first day of online learning, Jiahui Tang, a second year Architecture and Built Environment student felt confident of making the most of the experience.

“I think with the remote teaching, my learning outcome can be just as good because online learning allows greater flexibility - I can rewind the pre-recorded lecture and repeat until I fully understand, and it motivates me to better utilize the online resources.” She said.

To get prepared for the delivery of online teaching, academic and administrative staff on both the Nottingham and Ningbo campuses have been in close cooperation.

Since January, faculties and schools had started to develop contingency plans around online teaching. To provide students with the optimal learning experience, about a third of academic staff members returned to campus in early February to learn and compare the various remote teaching technologies. Every teaching staff member made an individual module online teaching plan that could best reflect the specific feature of each module. The teaching plan and a whole week’s worth of module content were made available to students a week ahead of the official start date.

A Wechat group has been set up to enable academic staff to share experiences.

Assistant Professor in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Dr Chiew-Foong Kwong is one of over 200 members of the Wechat group. Dr Kwong has been active in offering great ideas and techniques to his peer academics. He has so far created 14 video tutorials on leveraging digital resources for a better online learning experience.

Dr Kwong started delivering blended courses - that supplement face-to-face lectures with prerecorded content - at UNNC three years ago. “I give the introductory session of a topic in a prerecorded lecture, which I then upload onto Moodle. So in the face-to-face class, I can then focus on a more difficult topic.” He said.

Dr Kwong’s module Computer-Aided Engineering has enrolled over 90 students from across the globe. Before the class start date, he had already made available of his module content. When the class began at 9 am Monday, students signed in to his discussion forum on Moodle to delve into detailed topics.

To support with module design and technology preparation, the University’s IT and e-learning support services have come up with a variety of technical solutions.

Moodle is the University’s major online learning platform, where academics not only share learning materials but also manage interactive activities, moderate discussions, create assignments, track students’ progress and set up reminders for upcoming events.

There are other ways, though, to accommodate students’ learning needs.

“Microsoft Teams” and the platform "Zoom" are widely used to run live seminar sessions, where teachers and students can conduct a two-way interactive flow of ideas. Some academics also use Echo 360 to collect student feedback on improving module teaching.

In addition, interactive online teaching rooms have been set up on campus, where academics are supported to use an array of teaching technologies.

In the meantime, the University is continuously working on improving the teaching quality based on students’ feedback and learning outcomes. Staff are also being surveyed in terms of their experience with the online teaching platforms so that any issue can be addressed at the first opportunity.

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