介绍:
A Chinese college offers course on DOTA game.
(Soundbite/ 1110 BG dota begin)
That’s a sound clip from the game of DOTA.
Dota is an online video game. Short for the Defense of the Ancients
A college in southwest China's Chongqing Municipality has started offering an optional course on the popular computer game DOTA.
Notes:
This has also fueled Internet debate about the value of online gaming in academia.
The course is named "Recent development of electronic sports and analysis of DOTA teams"
Zeng Qingqing at Chongqing Energy College, says that it aims to improve students' teamwork spirit.
A student surnamed wang says that "It's insanely popular and has become the hottest optional course in our college.”
On Sina Weibo, Chinese Twitter, the topic attracted a flurry of comments, with gamers saying that they are "very jealous" of students at the college.
Xiao Jian, deputy head of the college academic administration, says they will conduct a selective examination of students at the end of the school term to evaluate the worth of the course.
2. Now let’s go to a special grocery
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Do you believe that you could shop without spending a single penny?
Now in Nanning's Xinyang Zhonglu primary and middle school, in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, students can go shopping in the school grocery with their - credit points.
They can change their credits into stuff such as books, stationary, rackets, or lollipops and so on.
All these are paid by the school's education fund.
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Xiao Kong a student in the 4th grade, now has one hundred and eighty nine credit points so far.
He bought a box of milk and a bag of cookies, which costs him 45 credit points.
He has 144 points left.
Pencils, exercise books, rulers are priced from 5points to 25 points.
A Chinese dictionary or other reading books cost from 40 to 75 points.
One of the students’ favorites must be the lollipop- it is 5 points each.
The seller teacher says the best-selling goods are study materials and food.
Most of them are imported from the local grand super markets.
A dean teacher named Li Jianliang from grade 4 says that the school handed out a credit bank book to every student from grade one to grade eight.
If the student doesn’t make any mistake on a daily basis they will earn 4 points.
Disobey the rule or late for class will result in about 5 points discount.
3. Online learning at secondary schools prepares students for university
a recent study conducted by the Institute of Education University of London has found that 16-19 year olds who study courses online are able to study independently, usue virtual learning programmes with ease and source relevant academic sources online.
The data was taken from 100 students aged between 17-23 years from universities in 36 countires. 58 of those students have studied at least one 2 year course online as a part of the international baccalaureate diploma programme. 94% of these students surveyed said that the ability to navigate online resources was valuable and 78% considered it important to be able to use online tools to plan group tasks in university
It helps them develop the idependence in their learning and other skills but it's also an imoprtant knowledge in this digital age. To ba able to conduct research online efficiently is very, very important for university studies.
4.side news: China and India are expected to propel the growth in postgraduate student mobility to all international leading institutions over the next ten years (according to forecasts by the british council). Nigeria is predicted to be among the increasingly important source markets and Nigeria, India and Pakistan are expected to show double digit growth. Nevertheless, China is expected to remain the largest source market for international postgrad students reaching 338,000 by 2024.
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