Classes Are Suspended but Learning Continues, Kuaishou Comes to Help! Cooperation With Tsinghua Xuetang Online

Due to the impact of the COVID-19 epidemic, online classes have been gradually launched across the country. Recently, Tsinghua University’s “XuetangX” and Kuaishou Technology have reached a strategic cooperation to ensure the delivery and distribution of more high-quality educational resources, and to make a contribution to “suspending school but not classes” during the fight against the epidemic.

According to a report from Tsinghua University, on February 9, the online education platform "XuetangX" hosted by Tsinghua University reached a strategic cooperation with Fast Technology. The two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in teaching content and live broadcast technology to jointly promote the openness and universalization of educational resources.

Due to the impact of the epidemic, schools across the country have postponed the start of the semester and have gradually adopted online classes and other forms of learning. Many educational institutions have also begun to launch or improve their own online educational resources to facilitate more people to learn online.

The cooperation between "XuetangX" and Kuaishou has brought new impetus to the dissemination of high-quality educational resources, and further guaranteed the development of online classes for teachers and students.

Online signing ceremony

The signing ceremony was held online due to the impact of the pandemic. Both parties attended the signing ceremony and reached a specific cooperation agreement.

According to the agreement, the two parties will carry out in-depth cooperation in teaching content sharing, live broadcast technology cooperation and other aspects to promote the social opening of educational resources. Kuaishou will become the exclusive live broadcast technology cooperation platform designated by XuetangX, providing technical support for the online teaching of tens of millions of teachers and students.

At the signing ceremony,Yang Bin, Vice President and Provost of Tsinghua University, Su Hua, Founder and CEO of Kuaishou TechnologyThere were also participants, and they all affirmed this cooperation and placed high hopes on it.

andWang Shuaiguo, head of XuetangX, and Ma Hongbin, senior vice president of Kuaishou, signed a strategic cooperation agreement on behalf of XuetangX and Kuaishou Technology respectively.

Kuaishou focuses on technology, while Tsinghua focuses on content

Content: XuetangX

"XuetangX" is an online education platform initiated and established by Tsinghua University in 2013. After years of development, it has become one of the platforms in China with the most high-quality courses.

The platform has collected and aggregated a large number of high-quality learning resources, covering more than 3,000 high-quality courses from top universities at home and abroad.

In 2016, Tsinghua University and XuetangX announced the launch of an online teaching tool, “YuKeTang”, which integrates PPT, MOOC and WeChat on mobile phones, realizing an educational model that combines the Internet, blackboard and mobile terminals.

Up to now, "YuKeTang" has been widely used in education, providing teaching support for more than 21 million university teachers and students at home and abroad.

Tsinghua University also recently released specific classroom recording technology guidelines to ensure the smooth progress of online teaching.

Technology: Kuaishou Technology

Kuaishou, as a short video content platform that has developed rapidly in recent years, bears a large part of the current content traffic.

According to a report released by Kuaishou in December 2019, the number of daily active users of Kuaishou live streaming has exceeded 100 million, and educational videos also account for a large proportion of them.

According to statistics, Kuaishou has produced more than 200 million educational short videos and has more than 1 million active educational short video creators.

With such powerful traffic, the influence and the technology behind it should not be underestimated.

Start online teaching to fight the epidemic

In this strategic cooperation, the two parties will integrate their respective advantages, quickly achieve complementarity and win-win results, and help more universities to complete "delayed return to school and smooth start of school."

The most important significance of this cooperation is that by leveraging our respective strengths, we can provide escort for online teaching in the fight against the epidemic during this special period and minimize the impact of the epidemic on the classroom.

There is a kind of concern that the seniors are worried that you have not learned enough during the long vacation.

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