Aihua WU Division of Science and Engineering

Higher education Department of MOE

May ， 2009

Email: wah2005@moe.edu.cn

Overview of China’s IT Education

OutlineOutline

I. The Present Situation of IT Education

II. The problems and challenges

III. The reform of IT Education in China

I. The Present Situation of IT Education

II. The problems and challenges

III. The reform of IT Education in China

I. The present situation of IT Education

I.1 Students

I.2 Specialties and Programs

I.3 Courses and Teaching materials

I.4 Social training systems

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The number of students of IT surpasses 2,210,000 in 2008.Enrollments:620,000; Graduates:620,000 : (1/10)The number of students of IT surpasses 2,210,000 in 2008.Enrollments:620,000; Graduates:620,000 : (1/10)

I.1 HEIs: IT students

I.2 HEIs: IT Specialties and Programs I.2 HEIs: IT Specialties and Programs

◈Computer science and technology◈ Software engineering◈ Information and computing science◈ Information security◈Automation◈Communication engineering ◈ Integrated circuit design and integrative system◈Microelectronics◈Light information science and technology……More than 25 types

◈Computer science and technology◈ Software engineering◈ Information and computing science◈ Information security◈Automation◈Communication engineering ◈ Integrated circuit design and integrative system◈Microelectronics◈Light information science and technology……More than 25 types

1.2 IT Specialties and Programs spots

doctor3%

master11%

undergraduate37%

three-year49%

11280 information specialization spots in 2007: (1/8)

Expel: Computer science and technology

• Decrease?

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sgraduates enrollments

Students

undergraduates

893 156,390 119,294 484,812

3-year programs

1,071

120,608 100,422 329,374

Masters 295 9,568 8,242 26,280

Doctors 59 538 783 3,678

Total:2,31

8287,104 228,741 844,144

Up to 2007, 2467 National Excellent Courses have been

selected (including 256 IT courses) by MOE.

The click number surpassed 200,000,000 of website of

national excellent courses and the resource shared system.

Many provinces and universities have established the

excellent courses construction and the resource-shared

websites

To share recourses, to open courseware

Up to 2007, 2467 National Excellent Courses have been

selected (including 256 IT courses) by MOE.

The click number surpassed 200,000,000 of website of

national excellent courses and the resource shared system.

Many provinces and universities have established the

excellent courses construction and the resource-shared

websites

To share recourses, to open courseware

I.3 HEIs: IT Courses

I.3 HEIs: IT teaching materials

MOE organized 1200 kinds of national-level planned teaching materials in the tenth five year (newly organized and revised)

National Informationization Expert Inquiry board organized compiling a series of teaching materials on IT and information society.

Introduce the overseas outstanding computer teaching material vigorously ( 200 kinds of translation)

I.4 Training system: IT Social training About 200,000 training organization and 250,000 specialties engaged in

the training work. 1,800,000 people receiving each kind of computer

training

2,000,000 students participate in computer level test by The Ministry of

Education Test Center Organization's every year

The transnational-enterprise certificate test (such as the Microsoft

expertise authentication, SCO qualification authentication, CISCO

qualification authentication); The domestic-enterprise training

authentication (such as the Beida Qingniao, Qinghua Wan Bo, Dalian

Hua Xin and so on)

Increase?

II. The problems and challengesII. The problems and challenges

Fund investment is insufficient. The teachers’ structure is unreasonable. There is a big distance between the talent's t

raining localization of target and the actual industrial demand.

The students’ practical ability and innovation ability is insufficient, and the international compettivity is not strong.

Informationization education ought to be further popular.

Fund investment is insufficient. The teachers’ structure is unreasonable. There is a big distance between the talent's t

raining localization of target and the actual industrial demand.

The students’ practical ability and innovation ability is insufficient, and the international compettivity is not strong.

Informationization education ought to be further popular.

II. 1 Quantity vs. quality

Fund investment is insufficient.

The teachers’ structure is unreasonable.

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II.2 IT field: Scarce talents Quality: The students’ practical ability and innov

ation ability is insufficient, and the international compettivity is not strong.

There is a big distance between the higher education institutions and the actual industrial demand.

In 2007,Six ministries including MOE had issued jointly "Some propositions about Further Strengthening the scarce talents in the key domain" that IT field including software engineering, IC, information security, animation will be taken as the key support fields.

III. The reform of IT EducationIII. The reform of IT Education

1. The pilot software engineering schools

2. Talents’ training bases

3. The Teaching quality project

4. Construct the lifelong Informationization

education system

1. The pilot software engineering schools

2. Talents’ training bases

3. The Teaching quality project

4. Construct the lifelong Informationization

education system

37 national pilot software engineering schools to have been established since 2002

New mechanism: 3 * 1/3 To cooperation with industry To be internationalization Learning by doing

37 national pilot software engineering schools to have been established since 2002

New mechanism: 3 * 1/3 To cooperation with industry To be internationalization Learning by doing

III.1 Pilot software engineering schools

MOE-Intel Curriculum Programs To enable universities to develop, optimize

and share new curricula based on advanced technologies with support from Intel.

• Including:– MOE-Intel Model Curriculum Program– Donate equipment to set up joint labs & Tech support– Curriculum workshops /Online forums– Model Couresware Sharing: (

http://softwarecollege.intel.com/university/)– Textbook Development/Publish Support– Technology areas:

• Multi-Core • Computer Arch• Software technologies-- compiler, Linux, EFI, Virtualization

…• Embedded system • packaging, HVM, VLSI design, microelectronics, • Wireless, network communication• Tech Entrepreneurship

MOE-Intel Student Programs To promote advancement of technology and support talents

cultivation by various of attractive programs like fellowship, internship, kinds of student competitions, campus lectures etc.

• Including:– Student contests

• Intel Cup Embedded Electronic Design Contest (2002, 2004, 2006, 2008)

• Intel Cup Design Innovation Contest (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)

• Intel PhD Best Paper contest• Entrepreneurship contests (IBTEC) and Intel-Tsinghua Biz-

Plan contest.• Intel Multi-core programming contest

– Technical lectures– Fellowship– Intel_MOE Internship Base– Mentorship:– Intel Joint Undergraduate Class (SJTU)

– Student clubs

MOE-Intel: Faculty Program• Intel brings cutting edge technology expertise to faculties via

workshops, academic forums, visiting scholars etc that not only encourages faculties to innovate in their curriculum development and research projects, but also helps move technology out of classrooms and into local economies.

• Including:– Academic forum

• Intel China Embedded Academic forum• Intel China Multi-core academic Forum• Technology Entrepreneurship curriculum workshop • Intel Asia Academic Forum• Intel WW Embedded & Communications Education Summit

– Faculty workshops• Multi-core curriculum workshops• Intel Linux Kernel faculty workshops • Intel UEFI faculty workshop• HVM workshop• Intel_MOE vocational school training workshop

– Visiting Scholar

To establish sustainable cooperation with the overseas

universities

To Implement the bilingual courses

Introduce high-level overseas teachers

Establish the overseas internship bases

To establish sustainable cooperation with the overseas

universities

To Implement the bilingual courses

Introduce high-level overseas teachers

Establish the overseas internship bases

Strengthen cooperation and exchange with overseas universities and enterprises

20 talents’ training bases of integrated circuit to have been established since 2004: MOE authorized 20 universities to establish national-level Integrated circuit training bases, the enrolled students increased from 6887 in 2003 to 17463 in 2006

40 national LINUX training center to have been established

To have set up specialties like digital media and animation design, information service, E-government, electronic commerce, digitized manufacture and so on

20 talents’ training bases of integrated circuit to have been established since 2004: MOE authorized 20 universities to establish national-level Integrated circuit training bases, the enrolled students increased from 6887 in 2003 to 17463 in 2006

40 national LINUX training center to have been established

To have set up specialties like digital media and animation design, information service, E-government, electronic commerce, digitized manufacture and so on

III.2 Talents’ training bases

Characteristic programs: 130 information specialization spots, including software engineering, integrated circuit, communication engineering, network project, information security as well as animation

National Pilot teaching Lab.: 42 IT national-level experiment teaching center

Excellent courses: 190 information curricula, collaboration with IBM, Microsoft and Intel to construct excellent curricula.

University students’ innovation project

Buget:2.5 billiard RMB

Characteristic programs: 130 information specialization spots, including software engineering, integrated circuit, communication engineering, network project, information security as well as animation

National Pilot teaching Lab.: 42 IT national-level experiment teaching center

Excellent courses: 190 information curricula, collaboration with IBM, Microsoft and Intel to construct excellent curricula.

University students’ innovation project

Buget:2.5 billiard RMB

III.3 The Teaching quality project

Modern distance learning-teaching service

support system

Modern distance learning-teaching service

support system

The network education resource-shared

platform

The network education resource-shared

platform

Digital study resource

center Digital study resource

center

Digital study demonstration center

Digital study demonstration center

network education quality-

monitoring system network education quality-

monitoring system

The nationwide test system and homework bank of the

net education examination

The nationwide test system and homework bank of the

net education examination

Chinese modern network of long-distance and continuing

education

Chinese modern network of long-distance and continuing

education

4． Construct the lifelong Informationization education system , and improve all the people’s informatio

n technology level

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