To kick start the Webinar Series, a Special Dialogue was held online on the evening of April 24th, Beijing time. Co-convened by Tsinghua University and UNESCO, the Special Dialogue explored the extraordinary challenges to ensure higher learning continuity during the COVID-19 pandemic.
 

Preisdent of Tsinghua University, QIU Yong, gave the opening address: "Online Education in the Face of COVID-19: Access, Quality and Equity"

Opening remarks also included the UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Education, President of Yale University, Vice Chancellor of University of Cambridge, President of Imperial College London, etc.

The conversation and sharing will continue online in the "Global University Online Teaching and Learning Webinar Series" which is being live-streamed here, in English. Here is the schedule:


You can also check your local timing for the webinars on timeanddate.com. 

Here are some additional information on the first two webinars:
 

Webinar 1 (April 27): 

Showcasing Online Course Designs

• Organizer: Tsinghua University
• Host: Online Teaching Guidance Expert Group of Tsinghua University, International Center for Engineering Education under the Auspices of UNESCO (ICEE)
• Live-stream Partner: xuetangX (live-stream link)
• Moderator: Enoch Wong, Schwarzman Scholar, Tsinghua University
• Format: Opening + Showcase #1-8 + Discussion + Closing

20:00 – 20:05
Opening Remarks

• Si YUAN, Director, PRC Ministry of Education Research Center for Online Education (MOERCOE); Executive Director, International Center for Engineering Education (ICEE) under the Auspices of UNESCO

20:05-20:20
Showcase #1: Adventures in Online Education 

• Bruce McNair, Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA

20:20 -20:35 
Showcase #2: Facilitating Student Engagement in Online Teaching with Rain Classroom 

• Jing QIAN, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Tsinghua University, China

20:35-20:50
Showcase #3: Climbing the Pyramid: Towards Effective Online Teaching in the Time of Pandemic 

• Mohamed Bakr, Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, McMaster University, Canada

20:50-21:05
Showcase #4: Teaching Now, Facing the Future

• Xiaoyun LU, Professor, Department of Biotechnology, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China

21:05-21:20
Showcase #5: Online Education for Foundational Medical Science from Harvard Medical School

• Michael J. Parker, MD, Associate Dean for Online Learning, Faculty Director of HMX; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
• Christine DeGennaro, Ph.D., Lecturer and Associate Director of Teaching and Research, HMX; Office of Online Learning, Harvard Medical School

21:20-21:35
Showcase #6: Merging Rain Classroom with Zoom for Effective Online Learning 

• Jiabei ZHOU, Lecturer, School of Chemical Engineering, Sichuan University, China

21:35-21:50
Showcase #7: Managing Group Projects Online - A Selective Case Study of a Capstone Course in Engineering Systems Management 

• Vian Ahmed, Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering; Director of Alternative Teaching and Learning, American University of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

21:50-22:05
Showcase #8: InVEST: An Intercultural and Remote Learning Journey

• Elham Marzi, Assistant Professor (Teaching Stream), the International Virtual Engineering Student Teams (InVEST), Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering, University of Toronto, Canada

22:05 – 22:20
Discussion 

• Online course design experience 
• Main challenges and future prospects of online courses

21:50-22:05
Closing Remarks

• Xinjie YU, Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering; Head of Online Teaching Guidance Expert Group of Tsinghua University, China

(live-stream link)