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Engaged in the research, development and promotion of domestic and international advanced education ideas and resources, committed to the development of education internationalization and informationalization, Beijing World Education & Information Technology Research Institute (WEIT) is a professional education think-tank advocating personalized future educations, which combines  educational reform, and advanced education technology with the big data of internet education utilizing them comprehensively,

 

Targeted at the comprehensive understanding and research & development of future innovation education modalities, and the reshaping of in-depth literacy of the students, respecting the universal law of teaching and education, with Whole-Child education philosophy and American interdisciplinary general education as a starting point, based on the thinking and cognition of subject knowledge and skills, and with the 21st. Century Core Competences Framework and the students’ independent development as the designing kernel, WEIT has launched the STEAM2 Curricula  System to the K-12 target population. Emphasizing the multidimensional construction of academic ability, the institute aims at fostering the necessary knowledge structure and thinking mode for the continued evolution of lifelong learners, which has attracted wide attention from domestic academic circles. At the same time, the institute has also carried out a prospective study of deep learning. Combined with the dimensions of cognitive science and meta-learning, the institute has also done an in-depth analysis of the education data and the whole process of learning. With an emphasis on a deep integration of teaching paradigm, learning objectives, learning mode and data of science & technology, the institute can finally identify the major factors and problems that affect the learners’ behaviors so as to provide adaptive feedback effectively to the learners.

 

Shouldering the social responsibility of education reform, the institute actively supports local education administrations and schools, and provides customized and integrated solutions (including resources and services), to promote the steady integration of the domestic basic education and the international advanced levels. WEIT has developed jointly with Beijing Normal University, Eastern China Normal University and other famous academic institutions high quality textbooks in Career Development and STEAM Curricula series, and actively introduced the international top STEAM education resources such as Britannica School Online  and the Stanford University Joint Laboratory Program at secondary schools for training innovative research talents, which enables the development of personalized innovation education in K-12 Basic Education field.