With schools remaining closed during coronavirus outbreak, China launches national remote learning platforms

With schools in China remaining closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, China has launched a national online learning platform and started broadcasting primary school classes on public TV to help 180 million students “keep learning even with classes suspended”.

At the same time, classes for primary school students will be broadcast on state-broadcaster CCTV’s China Education Television Channel 4. The division of learning platforms for different levels of students is to limit the time primary school students spend online and “protect the students’ eyesight”, as well as prevent network congestion from too many students going online at the same time, the MOE said in the statement.

Education is just one of many examples where everyday life has changed for many Chinese people because of the outbreak, with more preferring to do things online than offline, such as grocery shopping, health checks, web-conferencing and gaming. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology also roped in the three major telecommunications operators – China Mobile, China Unicom and China Telecom – and tech companies including Baidu, Alibaba and Huawei to back up the e-learning platform with 7,000 servers and 90 terabytes of bandwidth. This is to ensure that it can run smoothly with up to 50 million students using it at the same time, CCTV reported.

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