The inequality of educational resources and its countermeasures for rural revitalization in southwest China

Equal access to education has long been a global concern and is important for rural revitalization strategy in the new era. However, little is known about the regional differences of educational resources in China, especially southwest China, where the spatial heterogeneity of human and physical geography is extremely significant. Using a dataset of primary and secondary schools of southwest China at county level in 2015, this study builds an index system to comprehensively measure the supply of educational resources, investigates the spatial pattern of educational resources via exploratory spatial data analysis(ESDA), and explores its influence factors through spatial econometrics. Results indicated that the supply level of educational resources in southwest China was relatively low;the high-high clusters of the supply of educational resources were mainly located in Sichuan Basin and the east of Western Sichuan Plateau, while the concentrated poverty-stricken areas of Guizhou and the border areas of Yunnan-SichuanGuizhou, especially Wumeng mountain area, were characterized by the low-low clusters. Furthermore, this study suggested that altitude, population density, local government revenue and rural residents' income were positively correlated with the supply of educational resources, while the negative influenceswere exerted by proportion of ethnic minority population and urbanization rate. And there were differences in the specific objects of actions of each factor. Ultimately, we proposed that village relocation and combination, as well as sustainable urbanization and regional development were practical paths to optimize the supply of educational resources in rural areas, thus promoting the modernization of agriculture and countryside.

Human Rights and Social Justice through Open Educational Resources and Lifelong Learning

A landmark in the realization of UNESCO’s Sustainability Goals,Education for All(SDG4),was passed when the organization’s Recommendation of Open Educational Resources(OER)was uniformly adopted in 2019.Now it is time to transfer from the consciousness of OER to their mainstream realization at all levels,micro,meso,and macro,including all stakeholders,such as governments,institutions,academics,teachers,administrators,librarians,students,learners,and the civil service.The OER Recommendation includes five areas:building capacity and utilizing OER;developing supportive policies;ensuring effectiveness;promoting the creation of sustainable OER models;promoting and facilitating international collaboration;monitoring and evaluation.OER are valued as a catalyst for innovation and the achievement of UNESCO’s SDG 4,education for all,lifelong learning,social justice,and human rights.The OER Recommendation will be a catalyst for the realization of several other SDGs.Because access to quality OER concerns human rights and social justice,this Recommendation is vital.In 2020,the effects of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic clearly demonstrated the importance of opening up education and the access to internationally recognized,qualified learning resources.This article describes and discusses how the promise of resilient,sustainable quality open education can be fulfilled in the new normal and the next normal.

Research on the Strategy for the Balanced Allocation of Educational Resources between Urban and Rural Areas in China

This study conducts an in-depth analysis of the current state,influencing factors,and strategies for the distribution of educational resources between urban and rural areas in China.It aims to provide an empirical foundation and specific recommendations for policymakers and educational practitioners.The research reveals significant disparities in teacher allocation,teaching facilities,and educational funding between urban and rural regions,which adversely impact the quality and equity of education.Despite national policies promoting educational equity,discrepancies in local implementation hinder the effectiveness of these policies.The study underscores the profound influence of education on social development,noting that educational gaps can restrict individual social mobility and affect overall societal progress and economic growth.Policy recommendations include increasing investment in rural education,establishing dynamic resource allocation mechanisms,enhancing rural teacher remuneration and social status,and promoting the application of educational technology.The study acknowledges limitations in sample selection and data collection,suggesting future research directions such as the impact of educational policies on specific groups and the psychosocial effects of educational inequality.Interdisciplinary research and systematic policy evaluation and feedback mechanisms are encouraged to ensure policies adapt to new educational demands.

Construction Direction and Development Path of Digital Educational Resources in the Era of New Educational Infrastructure Construction

Digital educational resources have become essential elements of modern educational public services.China’s national program on new educational infrastructure construction has proposed to take new infrastructure construction of digital educational resources as one of the critical tasks.This paper aims to provide a theoretical basis for advancing the reform and development of digital educational resources in the new era.It classifies the current development and realistic challenges of China’s digital educational resources,and summaries and interprets the directions of the three construction projects of new type resources and tools,the resource supply system,and the resource supervisory system.It depicts the prospect of digital educational resource construction in the intelligent era in the combination of the strategic layout of the policies on new educational infrastructure construction.It also discusses such key technologies supporting new infrastructure construction of digital educational resources as multimodal learning analytics,disciplinary knowledge graphs,machine learning,and blockchain.It finally proposes a specific development path for new infrastructure construction of digital educational resources.

Spatial Pattern of Compulsory Education Resources in Shijingshan District of Beijing under the Background of Big Data

With the continuous development of promoting high-quality and balanced basic education and the continuous advancement of research on spatial layout of school,it aims to ensure that the public enjoys educational resources fairly.Based on 63 items of POI data of primary and secondary schools in Shijingshan District,Beijing,this study analyzes the spatial layout,degree supply,and coverage of primary and secondary schools in Shijingshan District using three spatial analysis methods:ArcGIS average nearest neighbor,kernel density analysis,and standard deviation ellipse.The results show that the spatial layout of primary and secondary schools in Shijingshan District,Beijing is characterized by overall clustering:the central region is high-density distribution,while the eastern and western parts are scattered.Moreover,this spatial structure continues to develop along the northwest-southeast direction.Although the high-density population areas in the nine streets correspond to the high-density distribution of schools,the service scope of primary and secondary schools does not cover all residential areas,and the distribution of residential areas within the coverage range is uneven.At the same time,the actual degree supply in Shijingshan District is insufficient.

The Impact of Urban and Rural Education Gap on Student Achievement Differences

With our country’s social development,the gap between urban and rural education has become increasingly obvious,especially the difference in student achievement.This study aims to explore the impact of the urban-rural education gap on student achievement.The study adopts a quantitative analysis method to collect and analyze the academic performance,learning resources,and social resources of urban and rural students.The results show that the unbalanced distribution of educational resources in urban and rural areas is the key factor leading to the gap in students’achievement.For example,urban education resources are abundant while rural education resources are relatively scarce.At the same time,the difference in social environment and family economic status also have a significant impact on student achievement.The differences between urban and rural areas,particularly in terms of family economic conditions and their ability to invest in education,further widen the gap between urban and rural education.The results of this study can provide a reference for reducing the gap between urban and rural education and improving the academic performance of rural students.A fair education policy is essential to narrow the gap between urban and rural education resources distribution,so as to improve the equality of education in society.

Research on the Balanced Development of Urban and Rural Compulsory Education Through Education Resource Allocation

With the rapid development of our country’s economy,education has gradually become the focus of social attention.The problem of unbalanced distribution of urban and rural educational resources has become increasingly prominent,urban educational resources are relatively rich,while rural educational resources are relatively scarce,and the balanced development of urban and rural compulsory education has become an urgent task.This paper mainly investigates and studies the distribution of urban and rural educational resources,discusses the unbalanced distribution of urban and rural educational resources and analyzes the reasons,and puts forward a series of corresponding solutions to promote the balanced development of urban and rural compulsory education.

Digital resources for nursing education:Open courseware and massive open online courses

Open Courseware(OCW)and massive open online courses(MOOCs)are teaching and learning resources that are easily accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.OCW is digitally published learning content including full and partial courses(syllabi,outlines,lectures in pdf or video,slides,reference lists,etc.),simulations,animations,tutorials,drills and practices,modules,podcasts,case studies,and quizzes.This content is free and can be adopted or adapted to the user's needs.MOOCs are online learning experiences taught by university professors using conventional educational tools including video lectures,interactive modules,assignments,study materials,discussion boards,quizzes and tests.MOOCs are offered free or at low cost for personal and professional learning,and as a supplement to classroom teaching.Many MOOCs and OCW focus on topics of interest to nursing,particularly to nurse educators.This article provides the reader with a brief history of the development of OCW and MOOCs,conceptual descriptions,and guidance about how to access and use these new online resources.

Analyzing our educational resource deployment of compulsory education by marginal utility

In the base of utility and marginal utility,the article put forwardthe concept of utility and marginal utilityof educational outlay and the theory of them,and analyzed the actuality of educational resource deployment in ourcountry,gave some advice about howtoi mprove our educational resource deployment of compulsory education.

Digital Knowledge Resources Sharing Through Online Distance Education Course

Since the electronic resources and Internet Web sites became popular, distance education courses offered via the Internet could play an important role in providing global digital resources and teaching the knowledge of international library and information standards for bibliographic databases with electronic and web resources.This paper uses the example of the author's new online course: ILS 608 Cataloging and Development of a Digital Union Catalog for Ancient Chinese Books to demonstrate the global re...

MET as Program Resources for College English Teaching and Learning：Application and Implications

This paper investigates the current situation of Modern Educational Technology （MET） as program resources for college English teaching, exploring the effectiveness of the integration of MET and language teaching and learning. The case study in this paper illustrates that MET does benefit college English teaching but there are many problems of its application. Pedagogical implications are then provided to enhance the effective integration of MET and language teaching and learning： （1） it is wise for the teachers and learners to reconcile what is desirable with what is acceptable and possible in MET application; （2） teachers should optimize other existing resources to solve the problems caused by inequality and unavailability of MET; （3） teachers should have a clear conception of the relationship of MET and pedagogy to design and apply courseware appropriately; （4） students have beliefs in the benefits of MET, resulting in enhancing their individual language learning and efficiency.

Achieve Intended Learning Outcomes and Improving Digital Literacy Skills for Practical-Based Subjects Using Online Teaching via Propagation of OER Materials

As professors are subjected to teaching their classes online due to the recent COVID-19, our local Hong Kong students find it difficult to consult their teachers, and ultimately would fail to achieve the intended learning outcomes, especially for practical-based subjects. In this research, students having online classes of a practical-based fabric design subject were encouraged to self-study from Open Educational Resource (OER) materials for a further and better understanding of their subject. Additionally, online materials were developed to improve students’ understanding via skill of digital literacy. Their learning progress was evaluated and compared to the face-to-face version. The majority of students found online classes combined with self-studying OER materials, potentially be a substitute for face-to-face classes. Most of the students further opined different OER videos assisted them without any face-to-face instructions in practical works, to develop new fabric samples from the inspiration. Analysis of test results, and comparison of students’ final grades with different learning modes, supported these phenomena.

Research on the Transformation of Academic Achievements in Museum Exhibitions

The most important way to realize the educational function of museums is to use the transmission of cultural relics information.However,there are some problems in this kind of information transmission.The most prominent problem is that the collection information"output"by the museum to the audience is too simple,and scholars are concerned about the collection.It is difficult for research to be“imported”into museum exhibitions in time,and then cannot be transformed into rich and colorful educational resources,resulting in a disconnectbetween academics and exhibitions and a waste of educational resources.Under the new situation of more diversified audience interests and demands,museums need to build a bridge between scholars and audiences,and combine the museum’s survey information of the audience withaudience feedback to improve the educational function of the museum,so as to promote the development of museum education in a better direction.

Research and Analysis of School-selection Fee in China

Senior high school education belongs to semipublic goods in China as the payout of senior high school is provided by public finance and market. Some key high schools ask for very high school-selection fee, which is a great burden on many families. And higher and higher school-selection fee is against social justice and endangers social environment＇s harmonious and steady. The paper analyzes the reasons and influences of school-selection fee, and points out some suggestions.

Integration of Ethnic Minority Cultural Moral Education in Ethnic Minority Areas-Taking the Mongolian Culture as an Example

The traditional culture of ethnic minorities embodies the spiritual pursuit of unique national value.It can be used as a valuable moral education resource and is of great significance to improve the effectiveness of moral education in colleges and universities in ethnic areas.At present,China has not paid enough attention to the development and utilization of moral education resources of the ethnic minority traditional culture,nor has it established and improved the relevant development and utilization mechanism.Taking the moral education spirit of the traditional Mongolian culture as an example,this paper analyzes its moral education value,points out the existing problems of moral education in colleges and universities in ethnic areas,as well as suggests strategies for the integration of moral education resources of ethnic minority traditional culture with the moral education in colleges and universities in ethnic areas.

How to Get Out of the Prisoners'Dilemma:Educational Resource Allocation and Private Tutoring

This paper analyzes the behavior of families in China regarding private tutoring,applying game theory to its discussion of their actions.It finds that families will definitely give their children private tutoring after school in order to obtain better educational opportunities in situations where the distribution of educational resources is uneven.According to game theory,overuse of private tutoring after school will waste societal resources and negatively affect all the players in the game.It is argued that a key strategy to reduce private tutoring after school is to close the gaps in state provision of education.

Constructing an Educational Knowledge Graph with Concepts Linked to Wikipedia

To use educational resources efficiently and dig out the nature of relations among MOOCs(massive open online courses),a knowledge graph was built for MOOCs on four major platforms:Coursera,EDX,XuetangX,and ICourse.This paper demonstrates the whole process of educational knowledge graph construction for reference.And this knowledge graph,the largest knowledge graph of MOOC resources at present,stores and represents five classes,11 kinds of relations and 52779 entities with their corresponding properties,amounting to more than 300000 triples.Notably,24188 concepts are extracted from text attributes of MOOCs and linked them directly with corresponding Wikipedia entries or the closest entries calculated semantically,which provides the normalized representation of knowledge and a more precise description for MOOCs far more than enriching words with explanatory links.Besides,prerequisites discovered by direct extractions are viewed as an essential supplement to augment the connectivity in the knowledge graph.This knowledge graph could be considered as a collection of unified MOOC resources for learners and the abundant data for researchers on MOOC-related applications,such as prerequisites mining.

Regional Inequality of Higher Education Resources in China

With the expansion of the higher education system in China since the late 1990s,questions on the distribution of higher education opportunities and resources have attracted increasing attention from academics,policymakers,and the general public.While there have been an increasing studies on the development of higher education opportunity equality in China,quantitative,systematic research on the distribution of higher education resources across China is still rather limited.This paper aims at filling this gap.It provides quantitative and comprehensive evidence on the development of the distribution of higher education resources across Chinese provinces.The analysis is based on a provincial panel dataset and uses a generalized Theil index to measure inequality.Results show that higher education resources have been far from equally provided in relation to the size of provincial student populations in China.The unequal distribution has become even more pronounced over the past decade.In other words,even if high school students have an increasingly equal access to higher education in China(Bickenbach&Liu,2013b),the increasingly unequal distribution of higher education resources makes it difficult for university students to equally benefit from higher education.

Jiaoyufication as an education-driven gentrification in urban China:A case study of Nanjing

As a type of urban gentrification oriented by high-quality educational resources,jiaoyufication is a socio-spatial process that refers to the middle-class group that attaches importance to education realizes the agglomeration in famous school districts by purchasing high-price school district houses.Based on the theoretical analysis of jiaoyufication conducted by Chinese and foreign scholars,this paper takes Nanjing as a case city,applies multi-source data like POIs(points of interest),real estate market data,mobile-phone user portraits and questionnaires,and develops a composite measurement of jiaoyufication to identify jiaoyufied school district,jiaoyufied group&its spatial characteristics,and discusses the causal mechanisms and effects of jiaoyufication.With the GIS-entropy-TOPSIS model,this paper evaluates the jiaoyufication level of public primary school districts in the main urban area of Nanjing.The result show that 218 primary school districts are categorized into four types,i.e.,high jiaoyufied school district,mid-high jiaoyufied school district,medium jiaoyufied school district,and low jiaoyufied school district.The high jiaoyufied school districts are closely associated with the institutional system.In the high jiaoyufied school districts,many middle-class families have abundant social,economic,and cultural capital.They purchase and move to houses with lower living quality in school districts to pursue high-quality education for their children.The strict school district system,soaring school district housing prices,and intense educational competition continuously solidify the jiaoyufication levels of famous school districts and lock the opportunities for high-quality education in specific school-district spaces and classes or groups.The phenomenon of this socio-spatial reconstruction process,which results from the unequal distribution of high-quality educational resources,tends to aggravate the rich-poor gap and social segregation in cities.It is suggested that equalization of compulsory education services should be effectively carried forward as soon as possible.

Demand for education in the urbanization process:prediction and analysis

According to records from 2002,there will be a continuous increase in the number of classes,full-time teachers and teaching staff in urban primary and junior secondary schools during the period 2005-2020.At the same time,the demand for classes and teachers of non-compulsory education will decrease yearly.It is estimated that the budgetary funds for urban primary,junior secondary,senior secondary education and even higher education will increase by 8%,8.7%,15.2%and 9%,respectively each year.