Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

The first content sharing initiative for city wide (provincial wide considering the unique identity of Shanghai)education in China was launched today: “Shanghai Education Resources Center”. This is a resource sharing database for over 150,000 educators across Shanghai. This network took over a year to plan and build; it is one of the major milestones in the e-Learning plans initiated by Shanghai government.

The project involves Shanghai education television channel, Shanghai Electronic Education Department and ten other public/private vendors. This network covers topics from pre-school to adult continuing studies. It contains not only learning objects as sounds and images, but also whole packaged contents as courseware and sharable curriculums. The educators may use the network to train, inspire and communicate with others. Learners may also directly absorb knowledge from this network with many exciting educational games and over 7000 hours of audio/video learning objects. Some future plans about the network includes connecting to the national standard testing database, supplemental text books, teachers evaluations. There is a well built flash interface for this network, and an limited English introduction. So, check it out yourself.

http://www.sherc.net/sherc/english/index.jsp