清华大学肖星教授专访: 疫情下的线上教学

发布时间:2020-06-11 12:00


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肖星教授现任清华大学经济管理学院会计系教授。所授课程包括财务报表分析与估值、会计理论、会计与资本市场。肖星教授向 ICAEW 讲述了疫情期间在线教学的新趋势,以及清华大学为应对挑战采取的措施,并就疫情防控期间的积极方面进行了分享。


近日,随着疫情得到有效缓解,政府开始逐渐解除因疫情原因采取的限制措施,各地学生开始陆续返校。而从今年二月中旬开学以来,肖星教授一直在向全国各地的学生进行线上会计学课程授课。



肖教授表示,一开始很多教师都觉得线上教学是一个不小的挑战,但经过两周的远程教学实践后,大家都迅速适应了这种模式。她指出自隔离以来,线上教育的需求激增,她的教学工作还像原来一样,从未中断。她谈道:“我们和学生、同事一起开展线上研讨会、组织线上讨论。这样的措施是高质量且有效的。”肖教授指出,对于某些课程而言,线上教学甚至比线下更高效。“比如说,有些教授不希望在授课过程中有太多讨论,那线上教学就会更加高效。线上教学的另一个好处就是教师可以录屏,这样学生在课后就可以回看该课程。”为了保证线上教学的效率,新学期开学前两周,教育部和清华大学就开始 “对教授进行针对性的培训,帮助他们掌握各类线上教育工具,并邀请网络专家帮助他们解决遇到的各类数字化问题。教授之间也对如何提高线上教学效率的问题展开了很多交流讨论。”


疫情在中国农历新年的前夕爆发。当时,大多数人正在家里准备与家人一起庆祝节日。肖教授表示就这一点而言,疫情爆发的时间并没有引起太大的混乱,因为很多公司和机构都放假了。她说,中国能够快速应对此次疫情的另一大原因就是大众不抗拒佩戴口罩。“最后还有一个不可忽视的原因是政府花费了大量人力财力,利用数据来追踪、隔离新冠病毒感染者和密切接触者。”肖教授还提到清华大学及其校友们不遗余力地通过分享免费的线上课程和政策建议,为政府和社会各界提供支持。肖教授同时也是清华大学全球私募股权研究院的负责人。疫情期间,研究院为企业家和投资机构举办了线上联合路演活动,反响热烈。很多参与者支持疫情结束之后继续开展线上路演活动。在肖教授看来,隔离措施从另一个角度也促使企业加速了业务数字化进程。“这是积极的一面。”





Lockdown stories: teaching shifts online in China



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Accountancy professor Xing Xiao from the Department of Accounting School of Economics and Management, Tsinghua University, who teaches courses including Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation, Accounting Theory and Accounting and Capital Market, tells ICAEW about teaching online, the measures her university took to cope with the varied challenges of coronavirus and the positives that have come out of the country’s lockdown period.


While students across China are slowly returning to schools and universities following the cautious lifting of coronavirus measures by the Chinese authorities, accountancy professor Xing Xiao has been busy teaching accountancy courses online to students across the country since the new semester began in mid-February.



At first, many teachers found online teaching a challenge, says Xiao, but after two weeks of teaching remotely everyone quickly got used to it. In fact, she says, she is just as busy as normal as demand for online learning has soared since the lockdown.“We have online conferences, seminars and discussions with students and colleagues. It works really well,” she told ICAEW Insights.The Tsinghua University professor says that many people have found that for certain courses online teaching is even more efficient.“For example, if the professor wants to teach without a lot of discussion, online teaching is more efficient. Another advantage of online teaching is that the teacher can video the class and students can review it afterwards.”To ensure the efficiency of teaching virtually, two weeks before the start of the new semester, both the Ministry of Education and the University “put a lot of effort into training professors to use all kinds of online teaching tools and have online experts to help professors cope with any digital problems they faced. There were also a lot of discussions on ways to improve online teaching efficiency among professors”.



The pandemic hit China hard just before the country’s lunar new year celebrations when most people stay at home to celebrate with family. In this regard, the timing wasn’t too disruptive, Xiao says, because lots of businesses and organisations tend to close down during this period. Another reason the Chinese were able to react quickly, she says, is because the general public is comfortable wearing face masks. “And finally, the government put a lot of effort into using data to trace and quarantine those infected and their close contacts.”The university and its alumni have also been providing support to the government and wider society through free online courses and policy suggestions, Xiao explains.Professor Xiao is also responsible for the research institute at her university, which is focused on private equity. The institute opened federal online roadshows for entrepreneurs and investment institutions. The initiative has been welcomed and many people are supportive of continuing the online roadshow once the pandemic has dissipated.Another upside for Xiao is that forced isolation has encouraged some companies to speed up the digitalisation of their businesses. “So, this is the positive side for me.”