Colleges and universities open the "wall" to benefit more people

The Shanghai Conservatory of Music (Fenyang Road Campus) will demolish the wall and open it to the public. In the past two days, this news has attracted the attention of many people. At the group meeting of the fifth session of the 13th CPPCC held yesterday, Xu Xu, a member of the Shanghai Municipal Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and secretary of the Party Committee of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, said that Shangyin will not only open the walls of the campus, but also provide art appreciation and master classes for the society.

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Leave the best resources to the people. The demolition of the wall of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music is one of the overall improvement measures of the Hengfu Landscape District. Walk through the campus of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music and the Hengfu Landscape District, taste the readable historical buildings, and complete the urban music journey on the stave, which will become a reality in the near future. Whether it is the riverside trail of East China University of Political Science and Law in the Changning section of the Suzhou Creek that has been opened, or the Shanghai Conservatory of Music, which is demolishing the wall, it is to let the people have more sense of gain, happiness and security.

In addition to East China University of Political Science and Law and Shanghai Conservatory of Music, the tangible walls of universities such as the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology are also expected to be opened. On this basis, the invisible "wall" of educating people is also gradually opening. Now, every year in the "Shanghai Spring", the Shanghai Conservatory of Music will hold a special "Music Open Week", open the school door to invite the public to enter the campus, feel the ubiquitous music culture, and even take music classes with students, witness master's and doctoral thesis defense.

The opening of educational resources in colleges and universities is consistent with its mission of fulfilling knowledge creation, disseminating talent training and social services, meeting the needs of lifelong learning for the whole people, and also promoting the education and teaching of colleges and universities, and becoming a window for the image of colleges and universities and serving society. As early as 1918, under the initiative of Cai Yuanpei, president of Peking University, Peking University first set up "School Service Night Shift" and "Civilian Education Lecture Group" to open educational resources to workers and even the public. Starting in March 2021, Fudan has set up a weekend advanced university study hall, which is open to registration for all high school students in the city. The First 10 courses include middle and Chinese language and literature.

At the same time that college courses are being opened up in large quantities, problems are gradually being exposed. Judging from the nearly 4,000 high-quality courses launched by major universities at present, there are problems such as low access rate, lack of "quality" and "quantity" of video resources, and neglect of interactive modules. Some course resources and resources are in a single form, and the problems related to the class are not given timely feedback, which also greatly affects the quality of openness.

Looking forward to the future, colleges and universities will further open the invisible "wall", on the one hand, they need to provide the most suitable educational resources according to the needs of society; on the other hand, they also need to follow the trend in the promotion and channel methods, and constantly explore more efficient paths, so that higher education resources can benefit more people from "idle people are exempt from entering" to a more suitable and inclusive way of bearing.

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