On April 24, it was reported that at the 83rd China Educational Equipment Exhibition held in Chongqing, Alibaba Cloud announced the launch of the Shadowless Cloud Classroom Solution, teachers and students in the school can access the exclusive cloud classroom anytime and anywhere through any terminal, support personalized exclusive configuration, commonly used and always new, and can achieve rapid transformation without complex equipment, and the comprehensive IT cost can be reduced by more than 60% in three years. This new form of teaching resources can quickly provide capabilities such as standardized teaching environment, personalized learning space, and intelligent operation and maintenance management, accelerate the digital transformation of domestic education, and move from a smart campus to a future school.
Today, with the rapid development of science and technology, the problem of weak education foundation and unbalanced investment in science and technology at the county level is gradually magnified. According to the relevant research data, the county level, especially the rural schools, there are problems such as the difficulty of replacing information facilities, the long cycle, 75% of the rural primary school computers have been used for more than 5 years, and some have not even been updated for 10 years, and the backward performance is difficult to match with the actual demand. On the other hand, the lack of professional classrooms, technical personnel, aging equipment and other problems gradually lead to teachers "dare not use" and "do not know", and it is difficult to meet the growing demand for science and technology of primary and secondary school students.
In the face of these problems, Alibaba Cloud engineers have been thinking about how to use digital technology to explore and promote digital education for urban and rural students. In 2020, Alibaba Cloud launched the first Shadowless Cloud PC, which can access high-performance computing resources on the cloud anytime, anywhere. For education scenarios, Wuying greatly releases the pressure of operation and maintenance, and teachers can focus on teaching innovation and efficient innovation. Compared with PCs and traditional cloud desktops, Wuying breaks through the limitations of time and space, can be accessed anytime and anywhere, and the performance can be flexibly upgraded on demand; each student can also have a personalized and exclusive learning space, online real-time interaction, enhance learning interest; operation and maintenance problems can be handed over to the "cloud", and faults can be repaired in minutes, which can reduce the comprehensive IT cost of the classroom by more than 60%.
It is reported that the upgraded Wuying cloud classroom solution can allocate PC applications, hardware and other resources to teachers and students in the school on demand, support Windows, MacOS, Linux, iOS, Android and other cross-platform collaboration and multiple types of hybrid networking such as screen terminals and screenless terminals, without the need for local self-built computer room servers, data security is guaranteed, and the existing display screen can also be used for reuse and transformation, reducing the cost of the program. In addition, Wuying supports one cloud and multi-core architecture to meet the needs of domestic independent controllability, and can realize dual switching between commonly used systems and domestic systems. The solution can be applied to computer classrooms in primary and secondary schools, vocational education training rooms, scientific research spaces in colleges and universities, and education and training institutions.
At present, through Alibaba's "Youth Cloud Education Program", Wuying Cloud Classroom has been deployed in more than 160 schools across the country, providing a total of 110,000 students with personal learning space, and will continue to invest in the construction of "Future Cloud School" in the future to help more vulnerable areas improve information technology infrastructure.
At the Educational Equipment Exhibition, Alibaba Cloud also announced the Wuying Education Partner Program, recruiting general integrators and general agents across the country to provide partners with comprehensive support such as preferential policies, technology empowerment, and marketing, and work with partners to expand the blue ocean of cloud computers in the education industry. At present, Alibaba Cloud Wuying has served hundreds of thousands of customers from many fields such as technology, retail, education, vehicle design, and the Internet, allowing small and medium-sized enterprises and developer users to fully enjoy the dividends of cloud computing out of the box.