Lessons of successful distance learning project worth heeding

A DISTANCE LEARNING school started livestreaming the courses of the No 7 High School of Chengdu, a key middle school in Sichuan province, through the internet in classrooms of more than 200 middle schools in poverty-stricken areas in China from 2016. The efforts have made a big difference, as the number of students to obtain university offers through the national college entrance exams since the project was launched has increased dozens of times in some of the schools. Hebei.com.cn comments:

Although it is known that distance learning can help improve the performance of students in poor regions, the results are beyond people's expectations.

To even some education experts' surprise, thanks to the distance learning system, a total of 88 students out of the 72,000 students in the poor regions have been admitted by Peking University and Tsinghua University in Beijing, the top two in China, a new historical high for these areas.