BJUT renews ties with e-learning German faculty

On Sept 11, the Beijing University of Technology renewed a memorandum of understanding with the Hasso Plattner Institute, an information technology faculty at the University of Potsdam in Germany, continuing their cooperation and exchanges in the field of digital engineering, mass data analytics and internet security.

The Sino-Germany cooperation agreement can be traced back to Oct 29, 2002, when Christoph Meinel, the director of the HPI, delivered a speech in the German city of Trier addressing problems of internet and intranet security, while a group of Chinese students followed the lecture over the internet at BJUT.

The university is one of the pioneers of distance learning in China, receiving online courses from foreign institutes via the internet, according to Meinel, who now flies to Beijing every April to offer oral exams to participants on HPI's e-learning courses.