Blended Learning of General Elective Courses under Public Emergency

Abstract

Under the COVID-19 pandemic, blended learning plays an active role in Chinese education system under public emergency. This paper divides the general elective courses into four parts: natural science with practice, social science with practice, natural science with theory, social science with theory in higher vocational colleges. According to the characteristics of three stages of public emergency, we think three-stage different blended learning are necessary. Early warning preparation stage is the preparation around the MOOC courses. The focus of online and offline blended learning is different in three cases in emergency handling stage. (1) Both teachers and students are not in school. The main goal is to complete all the tasks and teaching ac-tivities as much as possible based on the principle of learning online. (2) Students are in school and teachers are not in school. The key for teachers is to cultivate excellent assistants and group leaders. (3) Teachers are in school and a few students are not in school. Teachers should focus on the learning effect of the few students, arrange excellent assistants and group leaders to tutor them as partners. Instructors and educational administrators should im-prove the blended learning management system, integrate and optimize online and offline resources, improve teaching content and teaching meth-ods, technical training and psychological counseling for teachers and stu-dents in the recovery and reconstruction stage.