Vice Dean, institution of AI in Education, South China Normal University
Mu Su, Vice Dean of the Institute of Educational Artificial Intelligence at South China Normal University, Professor, and Doctoral Supervisor. She currently serves as a member of the Technical Education Sub-committee of the National Basic Education Teaching Guidance Committee, Executive Director of the Learning Science Sub-committee of the Chinese Society of Education, and member of the Primary and Secondary School Committee of the Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence. Her research focuses on the application of artificial intelligence in education, multimodal intelligent learning analytics, online education and blended learning. She is currently leading several projects, including a project of the National Social Science Foundation, a sub-project of National Key Research and Development Program Project, a community for information-based teaching practices under the China’s Ministry of Education, and an ordinary project of the Guangdong Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Foundation. She also leads the course ‘Theory and Practice of Teaching Media’, which is one of the first national exemplary online and offline blended teaching courses. She has received two second prizes for National Teaching Achievement Awards and two first prizes for Provincial Teaching Achievement Awards.
After experiencing online teaching during COVID-19, online teaching has been accepted by mainstream schools and has become one of the options for instructional implementation. Therefore, learning the methods and skills for online teaching and blended teaching has become an essential capability for teachers in the digital age. This main stage presentation will share ways to enhance teachers' abilities in blended teaching from the following three aspects:
1. Clarifying the Characteristics of Blended Teaching: learning-centre instruction
Emphasising active learning and focusing on students' needs and engagement.
2. Properly Designing the Implementation of blended teaching: mutually benefit
Designing online and offline learning activities to ensure effective interaction and complementarity between the two.
3. Identifying Essential Skills for Blended Teaching: Changes in the Integration of Digital Technology
Discussing the digital technology skills that teachers should master during the teaching process and the changes of pedagogy with immerging digital technology.