This seminar is co-organised by the Centre for Information Technology in Education (CITE) and Faculty of Education, HKU
Current policies and practices in ICT in education in China were developed on the basis of its achievements in the area of instructional technology. Therefore, past policies and implementation strategies in instructional technology provided the foundation for the fast development in the area of ICT in education. This seminar will start with a brief review of the history of ICT in education in China. The current state of development in integration ICT into the school curriculum will be examined from five perspectives: curriculum development, resources development, contemporary distance education, application of information technology and teacher professional development. Finally, the seminar will discuss problems, challenges and strategies for further developments in this area in China.Ms Joy Hu is a Research Fellow at the China National Institute of Educational Research (CNIER). Ms Hu graduated from the Beijing Normal University with a BSc in Biology in 1991. She started her career as a biology teacher and then quickly moved into research on teaching and curriculum/textbook development in science and technology. Since joining CNIER in 1995, Ms Hu has been engaged in several large scale national research projects and contributed to curriculum and textbook development projects connected with the basic education reform in collaboration with scholars in Canada.published_or_final_versionCentre for Information Technology in Education, University of Hong Kon
