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This open access book provides related theories, methods, strategies, and practical cases for implementing education reform through blended learning in curriculum, program, and institutions in the digital age. It sums up the research and practice achievements of blended learning from different research teams, involving more than 20 experts from educational technology, higher education, vocational education, and education management over the past 20 years.
This book recommends relevant policies of blended learning to international organizations and governments in various countries, provides systematic solutions for administrators in institutions to promote educational reform via blended learning, and serves as a reference book for instructors, researchers, and relevant enterprise practitioners.
Dr. Ming Li is Director of the International Centre for Higher Education Innovation under the auspices of UNESCO, Chair Professor at the Center for Higher Education Research of Southern University of Science and Technology in China, and Member of the Expert Committee of International Online Teaching Platform and Curriculum Development of the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education of China. He has served in a wide range of key positions in government agencies and in the senior leadership of universities. Dr. Ming Li has been committed to the mission and goals set forth by UNESCO to improve higher education quality and promote the massification of higher education for developing countries in the Asia Pacific and Africa. His major research interests lie in higher education policies, ICT application in higher education, online and blended learning in developing countries, and digital transformation of higher education.
Dr. Xibin Han is Tenured Professorand Vice Dean of the Institute of Education at Tsinghua University, China. His research focuses on e-learning system development and adoption, blended learning implementation, and institutional teaching innovation through technology in higher education and vocational education. He has won a number of awards for his research and teaching, such as the Second Prize for Excellent Achievements in Scientific Research (Humanities and Social Sciences) of Higher Education Institutions in China in 2020, the Second Prize in the Sixth China National Teaching Achievement Awards in 2009, and the Award for Excellence in Teaching and Mentoring of Graduate Students in Tsinghua University in 2016. He served as President of the Society of International Chinese in Educational Technology (SICET) in 2018. He is Co-Editor of Journal of Educational Technology Development and Exchange (JETDE) and Editorial Board Member of the Internet and Higher Education.
Dr. Jiangang Cheng is Professor of theInstitute of Education at Tsinghua University, China. He is one of the leading scholars in online education and educational technology in higher and vocational education. His research findings on vocational education were published in 'The Specifications of Digital Campus Construction for Vocational Institutes, ' which was issued by the Ministry of Education as a reference book for 11,000 Chinese Vocational Colleges and Schools. In the past 20 years, his team has developed 'Tsinghua Education Online (THEOL), ' a learning management system that is being used in more than 500 Chinese universities and colleges, with 800,000 online courses and over 5 million users.
