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    "Take the Same One Class and Fight against Epidemic Hand in Hand", the Department of Electronic Engineering Offered Online Cloning Courses for Students from Xinjiang University

    On 9:50 a.m., March 17 (Tuesday), Teacher Ou Zhijian sat in front of the computer on time and began his online course ofProbability Theory and Stochastic Processes, with a total of 215 students from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University and 83 students from Computer Class 18-1 and Telecommunications Class 18-1 of the School of Information Science and Engineering of Xinjiang University attending the class. This was the third week after the students of two universities attend the same course.

    In order to fight against the Covid-19, Tsinghua University took the lead in opening the online teaching class nationwide in the spring semester. Huazhong University of Science and Technology and Taiyuan University of Technology subsequently joined the online class of Tsinghua University to share Tsinghua University's high-quality teaching resources. On February 27, Teacher Jin Depeng, the secretary of the Party Committee of our department, received a phone call from Teacher Ma Hongbing, the executive vice president of the School of Information Science and Engineering of Xinjiang University that was constructed at aid of our department, hoping that the students from Xinjiang University can attend our spring teaching class. Teacher Jin Depeng accepted this proposal and arranged Teacher Shen Yuan, Deputy Chair of the Department in charge of teaching and Teacher Li Dongmei, deputy secretary of the department's Party committee and director of the teaching office to take charge of specific implementation matters, as well as arranged Teacher Wang Yu, Chair of the department, who shall actively contact the Lifelong Education Department of the school to solve relevant problems.

    After contacting with Xinjiang University with respect to opening situation of the two schools and the matching degree of the syllabus of the two schools, Teacher Ou Zhijian's courseProbability Theory and Stochastic Processwas selected as the required course for cloning class of Xinjiang University.

    Teacher Ou Zhijian is giving lessons

    Probability Theory and Stochastic Processesis a basic course for many disciplines in the field of information science and technology. As one of the ten core courses for undergraduates in the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tsinghua University, it is given in two consecutive semesters with a total of 5 credits. Through the course, the students can master a relatively complete concept system of stochastic mathematics, so that they are able to deal with professional problems with stochastic characteristics. "Stochastic treatment for stochastic process", the curriculum is comprehensive, and it seems to easily master the stochastic thinking of the curriculum but just the reverse, it is a quite difficult course in the minds of students.

    During the summer holiday of 2019, Teacher Ou Zhijian gave a short-term postgraduate course -Theory and Application of Probability Graph Modelin Xinjiang University, during which period, he truly felt the enthusiasm of students in Xinjiang University. After receiving this task of opening a cloning class for Xinjiang University, Teacher Ou Zhijian felt very stressed and immediately discussed about teaching details of the cloning class with Xinjiang University. He said that "it is a teacher's duty to arrange teaching work, assume social responsibilities, meet challenges and contribute contributions in the fight against the epidemic in such a special period".

    Multiple means are adopted for online teaching. After many tests, the scheme of Yu class + Tencent Conference system was selected, which has achieved unexpected teaching effect. The teaching form has changed from the writing on the blackboard to the writing on the computer screen, which showed the whole process of stochastic thinking to the students. The screen recording is required during the whole process of the Yu class, which is beneficial for the students to look back video and further consolidate knowledge that they learned. Only one student can raise his hand to answer the question at the same time in the on-site teaching mode. However, the students can give their comments concurrently through bullet screen, voting as well as answer multiple-choice questions through Internet. The advantages of online classroom in this respect can cover the shortage of online teaching in terms of low scene feeling to some certain extent. The courseware, playback and after-class assignments were fully copied by the parallel classes of Xinjiang University.

    As the online demonstration and observation course, it is available to the teachers of the school for empathic learning. Meanwhile, the Weiyang cloning course is opened for the students in the school, with 118 students involved.

    Teacher Ou Zhijian's blackboard writing

    Students from Xinjiang University who took part in the course said that the courses shared by Tsinghua University offer them a good and rare opportunity to learning. They can attend classes with students from Tsinghua University, sense the learning status of excellent students and experience the learning atmosphere of such students. Student Dong Yibo said, "Due to the epidemic, although we still could not return to school, we kept learning through online platforms such as Yu classes, so our learning process is not interrupted due to of the epidemic. We even did not expect that we could have the opportunity to learn the "same course" with the students in Tsinghua University during the epidemic prevention and control period, thus realizing the "Tsinghua University Dream" that I have as a child. Unite as one and overcome the difficulties together. As a student of Xinjiang University, I would like to thank our school for contacting Tsinghua University, which provides us such a good opportunity to learn and exchange, as well as I would like to thank Tsinghua University for providing "online classroom". I believe that I can learn this course well with my own efforts and under the help of teachers. "Student Lu Moqi said that "during the class, teacher Ou explained to us in details and profoundly, making it easier for us to understand. The teacher mainly explained the definition and examples through blackboard writing instead of simply retelling and further explaining the contents of PPT that were prepared in advance before the class. The teacher's handwriting method impressed the students more deeply, which can help the students to solve the problems in a more clear manner. Personally, I think such method is more beneficial for the students to comprehend knowledge. In addition, by explaining different problem-solving methods, it can prevent the students from thinking in a fixed pattern, thus they can form their own ideas for different topics. In my opinion, this is also conducive to the formation of students' innovative divergent thinking. "Due to the time conflict with other courses, student Yuan Wenpin could not attend classes together with other students from Tsinghua University. But he cherished this opportunity and studied through the watching the video. He said, "Because of online learning, we have a chance to take the same course with students of Tsinghua University. Although we cannot learn with them in a real time due to time conflict of curriculum settings, we still feel excited during watching videos through Yu class. The teachers of Tsinghua University are not as serious as I thought before, and on the contrary, they are so kind and polite when communicating with the students in class, ", and he also said that "We should make progress with the students of Tsinghua University and try best to catch up with them. "

    Learning experience of student Yuan Wenpin

    Warm spring and blossoms in March. The Department of Electronic Engineering shared Tsinghua University's high-quality educational resources to other schools through online teaching during the period of fight against the Covid-19, which fully reflects Tsinghua University students’ responsibilities for the country when facing difficulties.

    Come on, China!