Digital Transformation of Education in China: A Review Against the Backdrop of the 2024 World Digital Education Conference
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The flourishing digital technologies are impacting intensively on all facets of education development. How to promote the digital transformation of education by leveraging emerging digital technologies has become a highly concerning topic among educational researchers throughout the world. The Chinese government organized the 2024 World Digital Education Conference in Shanghai on January 30-31 to advance the digital transformation in education. The conference summarized China’s achievements in digital education and laid out a vision for building an international exchange and cooperation platform for global digital education development. This article is a review of China’s explorations and experiments in the digital transformation of education.
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Digital Education, Digital Transformation, The 2024 World Digital Education Conference, China
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