China’s Ministry of Education, the Chinese National Commission for UNESCO and the Shanghai Municipal People’s Government jointly held the 2024 World Digital Education Conference in Shanghai from 29 to 31 January 2024.
The conference sought to bring together governments, universities, secondary and primary schools, enterprises and other stakeholders, relevant international organizations and non-governmental organizations. It explored digital education practices and innovation, and how educational digitalization could promote inclusive, equitable quality education and advance the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
Under the theme “Digital Education: Application, Sharing, and Innovation”, discussion covered teachers’ digital literacy and competencies; digitalization and learning societies; evaluation of digital education; AI and digital ethics; the challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in basic education; and the digitalization of education governance and governance of digital education.
The Smart Learning Institute of Beijing Normal University assembled conference materials from the Ministry of Education website, the World Digital Education Conference website, Weiyan Education and other sources. The original materials and a section guide are provided below.
Read the original materials
Read the Chinese PDF: the available file has 150 pages, approximately 8.6 MB, comprising a cover, five contents pages and 144 numbered pages. It is provided by the CIT website; its cover gives the compilation date as 1 February 2024.
Guide to 20 main sections
The following 20 entries guide readers through the main sections. Page numbers refer to the printed pagination; each link opens the corresponding PDF page. The detailed article titles remain visible in the five original Chinese contents images below.
- Conference introduction (p. 1)
- Advancing digital education application, sharing and innovation: conference keynote (p. 6)
- Release of outcomes (p. 12)
- Parallel meeting: teachers’ digital literacy and competencies (p. 18)
- Parallel meeting: educational digitalization and learning societies (p. 21)
- Parallel meeting: global digital education trends and index-based evaluation (p. 24)
- Parallel meeting: AI and digital ethics (p. 27)
- Parallel meeting: challenges and opportunities of digital transformation in basic education (p. 30)
- Parallel meeting: digitalization of education governance and governance of digital education (p. 32)
- Education exhibition: a digitally intelligent future (p. 35)
- Overview of digital education development (p. 37)
- Illustrative cases (p. 67)
- Press conference (p. 76)
- China Education Daily reporting (p. 81)
- Xinhua reporting (p. 86)
- People’s Daily reporting (p. 92)
- CCTV reporting (p. 95)
- Guangming Daily reporting (p. 103)
- Other media reporting (p. 105)
- Review of previous conferences (p. 133)
Original Chinese cover and contents
The original plates comprise the cover, contents pages I–V and the final historical advance notice. Use “Open original image” in each caption to view its full dimensions and read small text.
Archive and version information
Archive note: this news article was first published on 2 February 2024. The compilation cover and corresponding CIT materials page are dated 1 February. The five contents-page groupings and final printed page 144 in the images correspond to the available PDF. Statistics, policy background and event information are preserved as material from that period.
Final appendix: historical advance notice for GSE 2024
Historical final appendix: printed page 144 contains an advance notice for the 2024 Global Smart Education Conference, planned for 18–20 August 2024 in Beijing. It proposed thematic forums, high-level dialogues, pre-conference meetings and workshops on smart education policy, technology, theory and practice, alongside displays of cases and solutions. The invitations and calls at the time included:
- Educational institutions, research bodies, international organizations, industry associations and enterprises were invited to collaborate in organizing the conference.
- Policymakers, researchers, practitioners, technology developers, teachers, students and business representatives were invited to participate and speak.
- Exhibitors of outstanding smart education solutions were to be recruited.
- Calls for smart education papers and cases were planned.
The notice was issued by the Global Smart Education Conference Organizing Committee on 20 October 2023. It listed gse.bnu.edu.cn as the website and CITLab as the official account; the email was gse@bnu.edu.cn and the secretariat’s WeChat number was 18001145371. Contacts were Wang, 13671076106; Miao, 13583379533; and Fu, 18612632382. These contacts and QR codes are retained as historical information from the original.
The original historical notice
This page is a news guide to the 2024 materials. The final-page invitations and schedule belong to the historical archive. The complete notice is retained below, with wording and contacts corresponding to its original publication.
Related reporting and resources
Related reporting: release of the Compilation of International Digital Education Cases, the meeting on digitalization of education governance and governance of digital education, and special and inclusive education resources.
Original link: https://aiedchair.bnu.edu.cn/news-6418-en/
