Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Tuesday, November 13, 2001

http://chronicle.com/free/2001/11/2001111301u.htm

2 Hong Kong Foundations Turn to Technology to Help China Teach Its Teachers
By JAMES BORTON

Two Hong Kong-based foundations are proving instrumental in China's efforts to provide better training for teachers in China's remote western provinces. The foundations -- the Li Ka-shing Foundation and the H.S. Chau Foundation -- are cooperating with China's Ministry of Education to support technology training for rural teachers. The two foundations have set up an intensive, two-week teacher-training program under the aegis of the China Central Radio and Television University, in Beijing. The university was established in 1979 to help China rebound from the educational turmoil of Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution. It is charged specifically with nationwide delivery of distance-learning programs....

 



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