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Review
. 2020 Dec 10:8:566316.
doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2020.566316. eCollection 2020.

The Online Education Mode and Reopening Plans for Chinese Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mini Review

Xuanzhen Cen  1 , Dong Sun  1 , Ming Rong  1 , Gusztáv Fekete  2 , Julien S Baker  3 , Yang Song  4 , Yaodong Gu  1
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Review

The Online Education Mode and Reopening Plans for Chinese Schools During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Mini Review

Xuanzhen Cen et al. Front Public Health. .

Abstract

Recently, an unprecedented coronavirus pandemic has emerged and has spread around the world. The novel coronavirus termed COVID-19 by the World Health Organization has posed a huge threat to human safety and social development. This mini review aimed to summarize the online education mode and plans for schools to resume full-time campus study in China during COVID-19. Chinese schools have made significant contributions to the prevention and control of the transmission of COVID-19 by adopting online learning from home. However, normal opening and classroom teaching have been affected. For education systems at all levels, online education may be an effective way to make up for the lack of classroom teaching during the epidemic. To protect staff and students from COVID-19, the timing of students returning to full-time campus study needs to be considered carefully. Reviewing and summarizing of the Chinese education system's response to the virus would be of great value not only in developing educational policy but also in guiding other countries to formulate educational countermeasures.

Keywords: back-to-school; corona virus disease; novel coronavirus; online education; reopening time.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Correlation between the cumulative case and university distribution in China. (A) The cumulative number of confirmed cases in China. (B) The distribution of universities in China. (C) The Scatterplots of cumulative diagnosis and the number of universities and students in China. This figure is original and based on data from National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (7) and Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (11).
Figure 2
Figure 2
The status of the COVID-19 and the time of back-to-school in China's provinces. (A) The time from the first diagnosis to the first time of no existing case in each province. (B) The number of days between the first time of no existing case and the reopening times of high school, middle school, and university in each province. This figure is original and based on data from National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China (7).
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