Recently, New Oriental donated more than 20,000 online courses to the National Digital Library, which triggered heated discussions. On January 26, Nandu reporters learned that the National Library of China issued a statement on this matter, saying that it had never received any "New Oriental Excellent Course" resources donated by any institution or individual. The "New Oriental Multimedia Learning Library" resource currently provided on the Guotu website is a commercial database purchased by Guotu in 2008. Since then, guotu has successively purchased new course resources according to the funding situation every year, and provided services to the public free of charge.
Nandu reporter noted that recently, some self-media published an article saying, "New Oriental, which has a huge loss of 900 million yuan, has made a decision: to open 22,398 classtime online classes for free." These courses have been placed in the National Digital Library." The article sparked a heated discussion on social platforms, and online visits to the National Library (hereinafter referred to as "National Map") increased sharply.
On January 26, Guotu issued a clarification statement saying that Guotu had never received any donations from institutions and individuals for the "New Oriental Excellent Course" resources. At present, the "New Oriental Multimedia Learning Library" resource provided by the Guotu website is a commercial database purchased by Guotu in 2008. Since then, guotu has successively purchased new course resources according to the funding situation every year, and provided services to the public free of charge.
According to the clarification statement, according to the agreement between GUOTU and the database operator Beijing New Oriental Xuncheng Network Technology Co., Ltd., the database only provides LAN and remote access services through GUOTU, and cannot provide mobile (App) services. In the process of using the database, the database operator has provided a short-term trial of resources such as "New Concept English Youth Edition" according to the negotiation between the two parties, and the operator will close the trial module service after the trial period expires. The curriculum resources purchased by THE NATIONAL MAP have been provided with access services.
The national map also said that it deeply regrets the troubles caused by the false information on the Internet to the vast number of readers. Due to the false information on the Internet, the number of instant visits to the National Map website and the National Digital Library App has increased sharply, which has brought inconvenience to the normal access of readers, please understand.
Written by: Nandu reporter Fang Shiqi
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