As a chief teacher at the headquarters of the Open University of China (OUC), Zhu Xiaoge teaches mathematics in the Primary Education major, and is responsible for math-curriculum construction, teaching, practice, and subject research in the major. She loves her work and has done well in it.
Zhu Xiaoge also attaches great importance to research, focusing on the mathematics curriculum and the teaching within it. She has published more than 10 papers on the teaching of mathematics, including a monograph titled “Logical Analysis and Mathematical Thinking”, in which she summarises her thinking about mathematics over the years. She has also helped carry out teaching reforms in terms of process, use of multi-media, and testing in distance learning for adults, for which she won the second national RTVU "Teaching Innovation Award". She has researched blended learning by incorporating it into her course design, participated in writing the book "Theory and Practice of Blended Learning", and wrote the paper "Teaching Design of Blended-learning Courses", which was strongly relevant to the design of distance teaching. She often interacts with local RTVU teachers online, discussing course construction and especially the reform of the elementary-education mathematics curriculum.
In other aspects of distance learning, Zhu Xiaoge combines her research with her work. Her publications include "Improving Learning Support and Developing RTVU Education" and "Basic Elements of Online Counseling", which explore specific practices. Her focus is primary education, and her research is for teachers engaged in distance learning. She has completed a "Tenth Five-Year Plan" project, Teaching in Primary Open-education Pilot Projects, and a “Beijing 2008 Teaching Reform and Research Project” called Teacher Development in Distance Teaching, comparing the teacher-education practices of the traditional and distance-teaching models. Furthermore, her thoughts on teaching management in the RTVU system have been expressed in papers such as “Scientific Development of RTVU Continuing Education”, “Development and Curriculum Reform in RTVU Teacher Education”, and “30 Years of Change in RTVU Teacher Responsibilities”.
Zhu Xiaoge has published two academic works, Logical Analysis and Mathematical Thinking (monograph), and Theory and Practice of Blended Learning (co-author). She has also participated in compiling four textbooks, led the creation of video textbooks for degree and non-degree education, published more than 20 teaching papers, presided over two scientific studies, and participated in one research project. In 2006, she was given the second national RTVU Teaching Innovation Award; her textbook Mathematical Thinking and Method was recommended by the Teacher Education Network of the Ministry of Education (MOE); and she was named a "Female Contributor" by China Central Radio and Television University (CCRTVU). In 2004, she was named "Excellent Teacher" and "March 8th Red-banner Pacesetter" by the CCRTVU. Her CAI courseware for the "Statistics and Probability Laboratory" was named an “Excellent Resource” by the Teacher Education Network of the MOE in 2003, after having won the national "RTVU Online Cup" multimedia-courseware award in 2002. Finally, her paper, "Internet-based Teaching", came third at the "National Symposium on Network Education in the New Century" organised by the MOE in 2001.
In addition, Zhu Xiaoge's paper “Scientific Development of RTVU Continuing Education” came second in the "Reading and Article Collection" competition of the CCRTVU in 2008, and “Development and Reform of RTVU Teacher Education” came first at the same event the year before.
By OUC News Network