With the development of WeChat mini-program, more and more students are dedicated to mini-program development. Recently, the first educational reform project of WeChat and Ministry of Education is officially launched. This project intends to provide technologies, platforms, resources, funds and industrial experience in terms of WeChat application technology development on the WeChat official platform. WeChat works with collegiate experts and teachers to explore new course design based on industry-academia deep integration so as to support the talents cultivation and professionally comprehensive reform in colleges and universities.
WeChat and the Ministry of Education launched an Industry-Academia Cooperation Project, supporting more than 40 projects in construction of collegiate developers’ ecology
WeChat and the Ministry of Education jointly announced that Tencent WeChat will support 40 teaching contents and curriculum construction projects. With WeChat official platform and WeChat application development technology as carriers, application can be filed for two types of projects, including WeChat technology basic curriculum development and WeChat application development practical curriculum construction. At the first phase, Tencent WeChat will provide more than RMB 2 million to fund the curriculum reform; besides, it will also provide official technical support and counseling, as well as supporting resources such as Tencent Cloud.
WeChat basic curriculum development primarily targets at the development of Web application technology and aims to develop or transform related technologies by virtue of departmental professional teaching and support provided by Tencent WeChat. However, WeChat application development practical curriculum construction focuses on improving students’ engineering practice ability and aims to build or transform a series of WeChat application development combat based on real application cases and Internet product development model.
Colleges and universities and related teachers who are interested in this project can visit the official website (http://123.57.250.226/ProfessionalProjectWebsite/html/projectDetail.html?id=959) of Industry-Academia Cooperation and Education of the Ministry of Education for details, check the application guide and download the Project Application Form and file the application materials by mail before June 15. Tencent WeChat will arrange experts to conduct a unified evaluation before the end of June. After the public announcement, the Ministry of Education will uniformly publish the result of application.
WeChat launched the first teacher training and course seminar, cultivating a team of teachers under integration of industry and education
From April 21 to 22, WeChat, together with the Advisory Committee of Software Engineering Specialty in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, launched the National Collegiate WeChat Mini Program Series Curriculum Teaching Seminar, so as to promote the construction of the collegiate curriculum system and curriculum content and deepen the integration of industry and education and share teaching experience in the context of new engineering construction.
Hundreds of relevant departmental heads and teachers from 48 colleges and universities including Tsinghua University, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhejiang University and Nankai University attended the seminar. In the seminar, WeChat team introduced the concept and development technology of WeChat mini program product in depth. Expert lecturers explained in detail the basic introduction and whole-stack application of min-program development, and carried out enthusiastic teaching research on the teaching program, curriculum case and teaching implementation process experience etc. of WeChat mini program.
Moreover, WeChat team will also set up two awards, respectively “Distinguished Contribution Award for Tencent WeChat Industry-Academia Cooperation and Education of the Ministry of Education” and “Excellent Mini Program Demonstration Curriculum”, to reward benchmarking teachers and excellent courses who made outstanding contributions to this discipline construction. Meanwhile, the official website for WeChat education cooperation (edu.weixin.qq.com) was also launched. As a window to show the cooperation between WeChat and educational institutions, teachers and students, schools and related educational institutions can learn about a series of projects and the latest supporting policies initiated by WeChat. The latest dynamics in education reform, school-enterprise joint research, and other educational fields will also be updated simultaneously in the official website.
In fact, WeChat has had a good practical foundation in the field of education, and has already carried out many attempts to promote the development of mini program development education together with the Ministry of Education. On September 27, 2017, the mini programs were launched in nearly 30 small colleges and universities in the country, providing more convenient campus information service for teachers and students. On January 23, 2018, Tencent WeChat, together with the Advisory Committee of Software Engineering Specialty in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education and the Advisory Committee of Computer Specialty in Higher Education of the Ministry of Education, the Online Education Research Center of the Ministry of Education, and ten well-known universities, initiated and established the China Collegiate WeChat Application Education Alliance, as a response to the call for the integration of industry and education in the new national engineering, and aiming at actively cultivating WeChat developers ecosystem in colleges and universities. On March 30, the China Collegiate Computing Contest 2018- WeChat Mini Program Application Development Contest was officially launched, providing a broad stage for the innovative practice of collegiate students.
WeChat team said that the cultivation of young developers is to create the future. In the future, WeChat will carry out wider and deeper cooperation in the field of education, and support the new ecology of industry-academia cooperation in the context of new engineering.