On April 19, the Zhiyue Hall on the first floor of the Chongqing International Expo Center was full, and education leaders and educators from all over the country gathered together to participate in the forum on "Building a New Foundation for Education Digitalization and Promoting the High-quality Development of Education". The forum aims to discuss the development trend of education digitalization in depth and share the experience and achievements of digital foundation construction to promote the innovation and development of the education industry.
The forum was presided over by Zhou Xuehe, vice chairman of the Education Informatization Equipment Branch of China Educational Equipment Industry Association. Cai Yun, Chairman of the Education Informatization Equipment Branch of China Educational Equipment Industry Association, and Chen Yu, Director of Chongqing Educational Information Technology and Equipment Center, delivered speeches at the forum, warmly welcomed the guests, and emphasized the important role of education digitalization in promoting the high-quality development of education.
Cai Yun, chairman of the Education Informatization Equipment Branch of China Educational Equipment Industry Association, said that the development of information technology is profoundly changing the field of education, and education digitalization has become a new driving force for the development of education. Building a new foundation for education digitalization is not only the key to improving the quality and efficiency of education, but also an important way to realize education modernization, promote education equity, innovate education applications, and cultivate innovative talents. This forum focuses on policy interpretation and practical experience, and discusses the application of new technologies in the digital transformation of education to promote innovation in education applications.
Chen Yu, director of Chongqing Educational Information Technology and Equipment Center, pointed out that Chongqing attaches great importance to and vigorously promotes digital construction, and closely focuses on major reforms and key tasks in the field of education, takes the construction of digital Chongqing, one cloud and one network as the traction, accelerates digital transformation, and actively implements digital education construction and integration and innovation. In the process of promoting the high-quality development of education, how to give full play to the leading and enabling role of education digitalization has become a major proposition of the times. The holding of this forum is very pertinent and of practical significance, and will play a positive role in leading and promoting Chongqing's better promotion of education digitalization.
Digitalization of education
Strengthen the new path of building a strong country in education
Ren Changshan, Director of the Education Informatization and Cyber Security Division of the Department of Science, Technology and Information Technology of the Ministry of Education, gave a keynote speech entitled "Taking Education Digitalization as an Important Breakthrough to Support the Construction of an Education Power", and deeply analyzed the key role of education digitalization in supporting the construction of an education power. He emphasized that the digitalization of education is a key part of the construction of an educational power, which has far-reaching policy, law and people's livelihood significance. Since the 2022 National Education Work Conference, the digitalization of education in mainland China has entered a new stage, and is accelerating in accordance with the requirements of "promoting the digitalization of education and the construction of a learning society and a learning country", as well as the principle of "application is king, service first, concise and efficient, and safe operation". Looking forward to the future, the digitalization of education in mainland China will move from "3C" to "3I", pay more attention to the application of the smart education platform, promote the intelligent development of digital technology in learning, teaching and education governance, and promote international exchanges and cooperation with the "Five One Ideas".
Tan Zhongchang, President of Chongqing Educational Equipment Association, shared Chongqing's experience in the digital construction of education, showing the positive role of digital empowerment and innovative applications in promoting the high-quality development of education. He pointed out that the digitalization of education is an important condition and the only way for the high-quality development of education, and the key to it is to promote the construction of new education infrastructure. In order to ensure the orderly progress of the digital transformation of education, Chongqing's education system will focus on consolidating basic network support, deepening the construction of smart campuses, and exploring security innovation models, and continue to strengthen digital innovation and reform. In particular, he pointed out that technologies and solutions such as "Ether Light", "Cloud Desktop", and new network security convergence defense will play an important role in promoting the development of new education infrastructure.
Educational pedestal
Leading a new era of innovation and development
It is true that the digitalization of education has become an important engine to promote the modernization of education and improve the quality of education. In this profound transformation, the "digital pedestal" undoubtedly plays a pivotal role. It is not only the cornerstone of the digital transformation of education, but also the core force leading the innovation and development of the education industry. So, how to define the "education digital base" and what is the significance of vigorously developing the digital base?
At the meeting, Liu Yongqian, researcher of the Central Electronic Education Center and executive deputy director of the Academic Committee of the China Association of Educational Technology, made a wonderful report on the origin and development of the educational digital base, and deeply interpreted the concept of the educational digital base and its important significance in the education industry. The report points out that the "six new concepts" are the core of the new digital foundation of education. With technological innovation and information networks as the cornerstone, this new pedestal aims to promote the high-quality development of education and achieve digital transformation, intelligent upgrading and integrated innovation. The key to promoting the construction of education digital foundation lies in practical application, especially in the central and western regions and rural areas, which need to be accelerated in combination with local conditions. Liu Yongqian also mentioned that Ruijie Network's practical experience in Gansu provides a feasible, easy-to-operate and economical solution for the construction of digital foundations for primary and secondary schools in relatively backward economic areas, which is worthy of wide promotion.
Yue Wen, general manager of general education industry marketing of Ruijie Network Education System Department, shared the strategies and practices of how to build a new digital foundation for education with the theme of "Building a New Digital Base for Education". She proposed that the construction of the new base should adhere to the concept of "idle due to dispersion, efficient due to centralization", and start from the two levels of teaching terminals and networks to create a more flexible, intelligent and intensive digital base. At the level of teaching terminals, improving the construction, management and use mode of teaching terminals is the key to digital reconstruction. Through the construction of "one cloud for the whole world", computing power has changed from passive "giving" to active "acquisition", realizing the comprehensive improvement of resource utilization, management and operation and maintenance, professional services and scientific decision-making capabilities, and significantly reducing energy consumption. At the same time, each VDI desktop is equipped with a GPU as standard, and the screen broadcast mode is used for unified teaching, which effectively solves the performance problems and network disconnection problems. At the network level, we will take standards as the guide, make overall planning, and promote the construction of all-optical networks in the whole region. With the advancement of Ethernet all-optical campus network standards and specifications, the new digital network base is characterized by simple connection, good experience, and high security, which not only supports rapid service rollout, but also implements intelligent network O&M with knowledge, empowerment, and vision, making service operation more continuous and smooth. This new pedestal is expected to increase the efficiency of resource utilization by 3-6 times, improve the level of professional services of the Education Bureau, and promote the digital transformation and balanced development of regional education.
Practice sharing
Comprehensive analysis from construction to application
In addition, the forum also invited Zheng Minqiang, deputy director of the Education Bureau of Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, Zhong Wenjun, a technical expert of the Modern Education Technology Management Center of Kaizhou District, Chongqing, Hu Jubo, an informatization expert of the Ministry of Education and the leader of the expert group of the Chongqing Educational Equipment Association, and Xue Peiran, director of Ruijie Network Solutions, to share the practical experience and future prospects of education digital construction from different perspectives.
1. Zhangjiakou educates a cloud
Zheng Minqiang, deputy director of the Education Bureau of Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province, elaborated on the city's successful experience in the field of education informatization with the title of "Let Education Plug in the Wings of Informatization - Sharing the Development Process of Zhangjiakou Education Cloud".
Zhangjiakou took the lead in launching the first prefecture-level education PPP project in the country, and in 2019, it successfully built a city-wide education cloud platform of "one center + six platforms", realizing the comprehensive coverage of education cloud to 718 schools in the city. The cloud platform has nine content sections, builds a solid "cloud + terminal" construction system, and realizes the unified management and sharing of educational resources through deep integration and docking with multiple platforms.
Driven by this innovative model, Zhangjiakou City has successfully created "Zhangjiakou Education Cloud", enabling 31 demonstration schools to carry out information technology classroom teaching on a regular basis, and the application coverage rate of information technology in teaching is as high as more than 90%. At the same time, through the implementation of the all-cloud strategy of terminals, each school has a unique cloud environment, which significantly improves the efficiency of campus office and teaching, and the centralized operation and maintenance mode improves the efficiency by 30%. In addition, Zhangjiakou City has also effectively protected the early asset investment and achieved the goal of green energy conservation through a smooth upgrade strategy.
Looking forward to the future, the Zhangjiakou Municipal Education Bureau will focus on promoting the construction of four digital application scenarios, including "admission to kindergartens", "digital training", "digital studio" and "digital practice activities", so as to further expand the application field of education informatization and inject new vitality into the innovation and development of the education industry.
2. Construction of network security protection system in Kaizhou District, Chongqing
Zhong Wenjun, a technical expert from the Modern Education Technology Management Center of Kaizhou District, Chongqing, introduced in the sharing of "Building a Solid Network Security Protection System and Escorting Education" that with the full completion of the education metropolitan area network, the education field in the district is facing a series of new challenges such as the proliferation of malicious pop-up windows, the problem of real-name verification, the inconvenience of dumb terminal network access control, and the complexity of authority management. In order to meet these challenges and ensure the safety, health and convenience of the education network environment, Kaizhou District is actively seeking innovative solutions and is committed to building a more advanced network security protection system. To this end, Kaizhou District has adopted a multi-system linkage strategy and built the first solid line of defense of the network with strengthening network security management as the core.
Since the launch of the system, Kaizhou District has successfully prevented malicious pop-ups 201728 times, effectively controlled 1,235 large-screen devices, and managed 15,414 dumb terminals. In addition, the zone has also realized compulsory authentication and event traceability of online behaviors, effectively curbing the proliferation of pop-up advertisements, and further improving the convenience of network operation and maintenance management and the effectiveness of network security protection through linkage authentication with the DingTalk platform.
The implementation of this series of measures has created a safer, healthier and more convenient education network environment for teachers and students, and provided a strong guarantee for the sustainable development of education.
3. Chongqing education digital network base construction
Hu Jubo, an informatization expert of the Ministry of Education and leader of the expert group of Chongqing Educational Equipment Association, gave an in-depth analysis of the cutting-edge practice of Chongqing's education digital network base construction with the title of "Vertical Fiber to the Class, Horizontal 5G to the Edge".
At the level of the construction of the municipal education metropolitan area network, the second phase of the construction of the education private network launched by Chongqing in 2023 innovatively adopts SDN+SRv6+5G convergence technology, which not only greatly improves the overall performance of the municipal education metropolitan area network, realizes the integration and unified bearing of multiple services and one network, but also builds a bridge between the user identity of the education private network and the 5G identity of the operator, opening a new era of education network integration.
In the construction plan of the district and county education metropolitan area network, Chongqing has built a large service orchestration network based on advanced technology, and successfully built a 5G+ borderless education private network through the strategy of two networks and four integrations. Hu Jubo emphasized that the deep integration of 5G slicing and optical network slicing has laid a solid foundation for the construction of a network resource center. Ruijie Network's 5G+ education private network integration solution cleverly integrates 5G network slicing and education private network service slicing, realizes the collaborative co-construction of 5G network and education private network all-optical network, creates a set of network resource centers that can be flexibly orchestrated on the service side, and realizes the intelligent allocation of network resources. Taking the education metropolitan area network construction project in Shapingba District as an example, Ruijie's 5G+ global education private network solution has successfully built a network resource center and achieved comprehensive coverage of the 5G network by integrating 5G, all-optical, IPv6, SDN and other technologies. By building a unified identity middle platform and a security operation and maintenance management center, it meets the needs of the education industry in terms of connectivity, computing, and security.
In the field of all-optical campus construction, Chongqing's practice once again proves the advantages of Ethernet passive all-optical networks in campus network construction. Hu Jubo pointed out that the color optical network system is becoming the new favorite of campus network construction due to its characteristics of fewer fault points, high stability, large bandwidth, strong compatibility, and flexible expansion. Taking the all-optical network project of Chongqing Guangyang Bay Coral Middle School as an example, the school has successfully realized the campus network construction of wired and wireless integration and network security integration by adopting Ruijie and simplified Ethernet all-optical network solution, setting a new benchmark for the education industry.
4. Build a new digital foundation for all-optical networks
Xue Peiran, Director of General Education Industry Solution of Ruijie Network Education System Department, gave an in-depth discussion on how to build a new digital foundation for all-optical networks to meet the network challenges of the education industry under new modes such as virtualization, simulation experiments, and hybrid teaching.
He said that the new base should have three characteristics: simple connection, excellent experience and high security. Ruijie Network is close to the needs of users, and closely combines the actual education and teaching scenarios to continue to achieve continuous innovation in these three dimensions. Through innovative all-optical campus network technology, Ruijie Network has successfully achieved one network coverage, improving network performance and simplifying O&M. At the same time, AI technology is used to optimize customer experience, reduce wireless network jitter, and improve network quality. In terms of education private network construction, Ruijie uses SRv6 slicing technology to build a high-speed, manageable, controllable, and secure network to meet the needs of education driven by policies. In addition, Ruijie has launched the Lexiang O&M big data platform and cloud assisted driving mode to realize the intelligence and convenience of network O&M. In terms of security, Ruijie has launched a number of innovative products to ensure the security and stability of the education user network. Through these innovative measures, Ruijie Network provides solid technical support for the education industry and promotes the in-depth development of digital education.
Today, the digitalization of education has become an important breakthrough for the mainland to open up a new track for education development and shape new advantages for education development. "Building a new foundation for education digitalization and promoting the high-quality development of education" is playing a new movement in the digital development of education in mainland China. Ruijie Network has been deeply involved in China's education industry for more than 20 years, insisting on continuous scenario-based innovation around the needs of customers in the education industry, and will continue to rely on its deep accumulation and innovation capabilities to build a more flexible, intelligent and intensive new foundation for education digitalization, and win-win the new future of education digital development.