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Understanding the Role of Local Educational Departments in School Collaboration for Improvement: Two Districts in China
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Wei, Feng; Ni, Yongmei; Yoon, Irene H. – Educational Management Administration & Leadership, 2023
As improving low-performing schools has become a critical strategy to achieve educational equity in China, local educational departments have implemented various school collaboration programs. Drawing on international literature and empirical data from in-depth interviews and policy documents in two Chinese urban districts, this multiple-case…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Districts, Educational Improvement, Educational Cooperation
Using Synchronous Technology to Enrich Student Learning
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Wang, Charles Xiaoxue; Jaeger, David; Liu, Jinxia; Guo, Xiaoning; Xie, Nan – TechTrends: Linking Research and Practice to Improve Learning, 2013
To explore the potential applications of synchronous technology to enrich student learning, faculty members from an American regional state university and a Chinese regional university collaborated to find appropriate ways to integrate synchronous technology (e.g., Adobe Connect) into an educational technology program in the American university…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Synchronous Communication, Internet, Teleconferencing
An Approach to the Internationalisation of the Curriculum: Sino-British Joint Efforts for Three Online Courses
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Yawan, Li; Ying, Li – Open Learning, 2011
With a view to facilitating good practice and enhancing further exchanges and collaboration with the Open University UK, the Open University of China initiated a joint programme of training to offer online tutors and academic management staff three courses: Student Support, Tutoring On-line, and Course Design. The programme brought in not only a…
Descriptors: Open Universities, Learning Modalities, Online Courses, Educational Change
Maintaining Dynamic Interactions to Enhance Longer-Term Sustainability of Cross-Cultural In-Service Teacher-Training Initiatives in China
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Yan, Chunmei; He, Chuanjun – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2009
This article reports on a study that examines decisive factors for longer-term sustainability of cross-cultural teacher-training initiatives in China. It focuses on the Chinese project implementers' perspectives of a Sino-British adult education English-language teaching project based in central China. Semistructured individual interviews were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Second Language Instruction, Adult Education, English for Special Purposes
The Sino-German Experience: 20 Years of Cooperation in Vocational Education and Training
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Wagner, Hans-Guenter – International Journal of Training Research, 2003
20 years of Sino-German cooperation in vocational training and education (VET) have produced a great many mutual benefits. This article outlines the stages underwent during the development of Sino-German cooperation in VET, describing certain experiences, in particular highlighting practices such as labour market oriented curricula, action based…
Descriptors: International Cooperation, Labor Market, Vocational Education, Teaching Methods
Linkages between Secondary and Post-Secondary Vocational Education and Training in China and Australia.
Misko, Josie; Yufeng, Liu; He, Ouyang; Li, Jiang; Phan, Oanh – 2002
This document describes the major features of the vocational educational and training (VET) sectors in China and Australia, particularly the linkages between lower and higher VET that occur within secondary and postsecondary education in Australia and, in China, within junior secondary schools, senior secondary schools, and higher institutions of…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), Adult Education, Apprenticeships, Articulation (Education)