The opportunities and challenges brought by Internet education include

With the "internet plus" being incorporated into the national strategy at the two sessions at the beginning of the year, the Internet is sweeping at an unprecedented speed, and all walks of life cannot avoid it.

I have to say that education is one of the most conservative industries. Although information technology training has been round after round in the past decade, "inter-school communication, class communication and personal communication" has been carried out every year, and network courses have been built one after another. As long as you walk into the classrooms of primary and secondary schools, you will find that the classrooms are still the same, except that PPT has replaced the traditional blackboard writing, and there is no substantial change compared with more than a decade ago. We can't simply think that this is the fault of education itself. It can only be said that the impact of the previous Internet development on education is not enough, and it is not enough to fundamentally change the ecological environment of education.

But if you think that the Internet will not fundamentally change education, you are probably wrong again! 20 15, the development of the internet has entered a brand-new stage, and its characteristics of "connecting everything" have begun to show incisively and vividly, impacting traditional industries with the domineering of "sweeping everything".

So, what changes will internet plus bring to education? What risks will education face when it meets the challenge of "internet plus"? What can I do to enjoy the bonus dinner brought by "internet plus" instead of becoming a lonely ghost who has been run over by a wheel?

Destruction of old educational ecology and reconstruction of new educational ecology

We can't underestimate the influence of "internet plus" on education, which may even go deep into the bone marrow, directly destroy the traditional conservative education ecology and reshape the new open and innovative education ecology.

"internet plus" makes education move from closed to open. "internet plus" broke the monopoly of authority on knowledge and made education move from closed to open. Everyone can create knowledge, everyone can enjoy it, and everyone can acquire and use it. Under the background of opening up, the global knowledge base is accelerating to form, and high-quality educational resources are being greatly enriched and enriched. These resources are connected together through the Internet, so that people can get the learning resources they want anytime and anywhere. The efficiency of knowledge acquisition is greatly improved and the acquisition cost is greatly reduced, which lays a solid foundation for building a learning society of lifelong learning.

Under the impact of "internet plus", the boundary between teachers and students is no longer clear. In the traditional educational ecology, teachers and textbooks are the authoritative sources of knowledge, students are the recipients of knowledge, and teachers gain classroom control because of their advantages in knowledge. However, in the "internet plus" era of "school to school, class to class, and everyone to class", students' acquisition of knowledge becomes very fast, and the balance of knowledge between teachers and students is not necessarily biased towards teachers. At this point, teachers must adjust their position and make themselves and students become learning partners and guides.

Under the impact of "internet plus", the boundary between educational institutions and non-educational institutions has been blurred, and may even disappear completely. The flexibility of social educational institutions is launching a strong impact on school educational institutions. Educating units and employing units are no longer distinct divisions, but gradually form the same body of education, which promotes the coordinated progress of education.

In essence, the influence of "internet plus" on education is mainly reflected in the reconfiguration and integration of educational resources. On the one hand, the Internet has greatly amplified the role and value of high-quality educational resources, from a traditional excellent teacher who can only serve dozens of students to thousands or even tens of thousands of students. On the other hand, the characteristics of Internet interconnection make it possible to carry out cross-regional, cross-industry and cross-time cooperative research, which largely avoids low-level duplication and accelerates the improvement of research level. Under the impact of "internet plus", the gap in traditional education caused by factors such as region, time and teachers will gradually narrow or even fill.

Internet plus has accelerated the self-evolution ability of education. "Running water does not rot, and the walls of the family do not rot" tells us that the self-evolution ability of a system is the foundation of its survival and development. Traditional education lags behind social development, the teaching content is outdated, the teaching methods are backward, and the teaching efficiency is low, so the trained talents can not meet the needs of social development. The reason for this low self-evolution ability lies in the closed nature of the education system itself. "internet plus" knocked on the closed door of education and accelerated the self-evolution of education. Everyone is a producer of education and everyone is a consumer of education. This new educational ecology will inevitably adapt to the development of society.

Education will face three major challenges.

The Internet has brought various benefits to the education ecosystem, but under this powerful impact, education itself will also face a series of challenges, mainly in the following three aspects:

In the open education ecology, the educational function of education is in danger of being weakened. In traditional education, teachers impart knowledge to students face to face. In this process, educators will integrate moral, intellectual, physical and aesthetic education, and edify their children with virtue and art. However, in the education in the Internet age, there is more interaction between teachers and students at the level of knowledge and information, and the educational function of education is weakened.

Learners, especially young learners, have insufficient moral judgment ability. Without the guidance and edification of educators, how can we ensure to cultivate students' correct outlook on life, values, good moral quality and correct thinking methods when facing the open and mixed Internet information alone? "Foreign affairs Baidu asks, internal affairs Baidu asks", so that learners can find almost any learning resources they need online. However, in the long run, is it really beneficial for learners to process knowledge and develop their intelligence? Long-term use of various Internet devices to assist learning, online games have gradually replaced the daily offline games, and the impact on learners' health is self-evident. How to build up one's physique, build up one's physique and cultivate willpower? In the Internet age, learners learn conveniently and quickly, but they are increasingly alienated from their learning partners and nature, and there are fewer and fewer opportunities to really touch the world with multiple senses. So how can learners' art education be inspired?

Fragmentation of learning reduces learners' concentration and learning depth. Internet has lowered the threshold for people to learn, and ubiquitous knowledge sharing and information dissemination have facilitated people's learning. Learners can choose the knowledge they are interested in to study anytime and anywhere. The breadth of learning has greatly increased, and people can dabble in learning knowledge in various fields that they are familiar with and unfamiliar with. However, the study time and content are seriously fragmented, and learners will use their spare time such as taking the bus, resting and going to bed for ten minutes to learn some fragmentary knowledge. The fragmentation of learning time will lead learners to form a bad habit of being lazy to think and process knowledge, and read a lot of fragmented knowledge and information at their fingertips without thinking; The fragmentation of learning content will make it difficult to establish the relationship between knowledge and make learners learn a lot of scattered points and it is difficult to process them into meaningful knowledge networks. It is difficult to ensure the depth of learners' learning.

In the face of massive information and knowledge, learners' learning ability is facing great challenges. In traditional education, learners face a relatively fixed amount of knowledge, low complexity of knowledge and lack of learning resources. Therefore, learners in traditional education will think deeply, dig and practice repeatedly with these fixed knowledge as the core. However, the education under the Internet is constantly integrated with the knowledge of all walks of life, knowledge is constantly updated and expanded, the complexity of knowledge is enhanced, the information is growing exponentially, and the available resources are rich but mixed. Under such circumstances, how to learn a lot of new knowledge quickly? How to deal with the information of exponential growth? How to choose the resources you need? This will be a great challenge for learners who lack the ability to grow up and process information in the traditional learning environment.

"Internet+Education": We need to deal with it calmly.

Facing these opportunities and challenges brought to education by "internet plus" era, we need to calmly deal with them.

First, we must adhere to the principle of "education as the foundation and Internet as the service". Stick to our original wishes and remember our mission. No matter how technology develops, we should always bear in mind that education is the core goal, and the Internet is only a technical means to upgrade and transform education. Therefore, we should adhere to the guiding principle of "education as the foundation and Internet as the service" and make rational use of the Internet from the core needs of education, instead of letting technology run rampant and let education itself fade. We can't exaggerate the transformative role of the Internet. We should actively prevent bad information, cyber crime, internet addiction and other phenomena from having a negative impact on education. We should purify the internet environment in time by perfecting laws and strengthening supervision, so that the internet can be better used for education.

Second, under macro-control, give full play to the role of market players. In the era of "internet plus", if we want to make full use of "tuyere", we can't block it. Following the trend is the best choice. Emerging Internet education enterprises are an important force in education reform in the era of "internet plus". We should fully respect and protect their independent status and avoid imposing multiple restrictions on them from the policy level, thus constraining the development of this new force. At the same time, in order to avoid the repeated low-level construction of Internet enterprises, universities and primary and secondary schools, the government's macro guidance and regulation are also essential. The government should grasp the role of intelligence agents and referees, instead of rushing into the stadium to participate in the competition.

Third, school education should dare to change from knowledge education to thinking education. Facing the impact of "internet plus", there should be a clear division of labor between school education and off-campus education, and school education should take more responsibility of "giving people fish". In order to achieve this goal, school education must simplify the knowledge content and change the core of education from knowledge education to thinking education.

In a word, facing the challenge of "internet plus", education can't stick to avoiding war, and can't let the Internet "act recklessly". Instead, we should proceed from the actual needs of education reform, seize the opportunity, face the challenge directly, and let education fly higher, more stable and farther on the "window" of "internet plus".