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The course Macroeconomics
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The course Competency-based Interviewing and Selection
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The course Health Management
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The course Fitness Yoga
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our courses from Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) were among the first groups of courses published on the international online-teaching platform iCourse which was launched by Chinese Ministry of Education (MOE) recently.
The four courses, “Competency-based Interviewing and Selection", "Macroeconomics", "Health Management" and "Fitness Yoga", are taught in English, Chinese and German. They have also been open on the platform China University MOOC since December 2019. They impressed learners with new content, frequent interaction, innovative methodology and a combination of knowledge and skills.
The course Competency-based Interviewing and Selection introduces the United Nations (UN) and provides students with tips on UN’s job interview.The course Macroeconomics summarises theories from fundamental macroeconomic issues. The course Health Management covers studies of medicine, education and sports, featuring multi-languages and many practices. The course Fitness Yoga tells the basic knowledge and poses of yoga.
As COVID-19 has affected offline teaching, Chinese MOE started launching international online-teaching platforms to introduce global learners the free high-quality MOOCs from Chinese universities and colleges. iCourse and XuetangX were the first platforms to be developed by MOE.
193 courses from 53 "Double First Class" universities and seven universities with distinctive majors are available now on the iCourse. They cover eight fields including medicine and epidemic prevention and control, economics, science, engineering, art and culture, artificial intelligence and virtual simulation experiment, agriculture and ecology, and future-oriented innovation and entrepreneurship. Wu Yan, director of higher education of the MOE, said that iCourse showed the high quality of China’s online courses.
SISU has always been focusing on developing MOOCs globally, with its 33 courses offered to the world’s leading MOOC platforms including China University MOOC platform and FutureLearn, attracting over 600,000 learners. After joining the FutureLearn partnership as the third university in China in 2014, SISU launched an international English course in 2005, which was the first English online course in China and the third in Asia. SISU promoted MOOCs development and set up 30 MOOCs in 2019.
