Agricultural distance Education promotes the Development of Modern Agriculture

Unprecedented profound changes are taking place in the social structure of China's rural areas. with the rapid development of social economy and the breakthrough of urban-rural integration, the world's largest transfer of rural labor has been formed. more than 260 million farmers have gone to cities to work, and elderly agriculture, women's agriculture and primary school agriculture have become the focus. If farmers are not cultivated into professional farmers with high quality and high skills, who will cultivate the vast fields will become a worldwide problem.

To solve the problem of "who will plant and how to plant" of 1.8 billion mu of arable land in China in the future, only by firmly grasping the backbone groups of farmers, speeding up the cultivation of a large number of new professional farmers, and constantly cultivating new professional farmers, can we consolidate the foundation for the development of modern agriculture. In 2014, the Ministry of Agriculture launched a new professional farmer training project, making full use of distance education, relying on the advantages of complete organization, sound system, wide coverage, close to the grass-roots level and rich experience in agricultural radio and television schools at all levels of the country. we will speed up the exploration of cultivation methods and systems suitable for different regions and different levels of economic development, centering on the goal of "three types of coordination" of production and management, professional skills and social services. We will actively build a new professional farmer cultivation system of "trinity" of education and training, identification and management, and policy support. Hundreds of millions of new professional farmers will enter the agricultural distance education platform, and China's agricultural distance education has formed a brand-new development pattern. It has started a strong new engine for the development of modern agriculture.

Agricultural distance education is the basic means to cultivate a new type of professional farmers.

At present, China still has more than 640 million rural resident population, plus more than 260 million migrant workers. In the rural labor force, the education level below junior high school is more than 80%. Due to the low scientific and cultural level of farmers, the ability to absorb and apply science and technology is not strong, it restricts the effective transformation of agricultural scientific and technological achievements and the rapid popularization of new technologies in agricultural production, and affects the income of farmers to become rich. China's relative shortage of rural education resources, coupled with the vast rural area, farmers live scattered, the majority of rural workers to receive campus education and training is very limited. Therefore, the use of distance teaching to break the limitations of time and space, convenient and fast, large capacity, low cost and wide coverage, solves the contradiction between farmers' production and learning, and alleviates the serious shortage of educational resources in rural areas. farmers do not leave their hometown, do not leave their posts to participate in local study, directly serve agricultural production, in line with the environmental characteristics of China's rural areas and farmers' learning demands.

In order to speed up the development of modern agriculture in a large agricultural country like China, it is necessary to train hundreds of millions of new professional farmers covering agriculture before, during and after production, including production and management, professional skills and social services. it is necessary to strengthen the training of agricultural successors and the regular training of new professional farmers, which is a very arduous task and must be persisted for a long time. To establish a new type of professional peasant education and training system that meets the needs of new professional farmers with multi-level, multi-form, wide coverage, regular and institutionalized education and training. In the face of the current situation of large quantity, wide distribution and diverse needs, to carry out rural distance education by using modern information technology to send high-quality education and training resources and market information to the vast rural areas quickly and efficiently is an effective means to solve the problem of cultivating new-type professional farmers. Therefore, speeding up the development of modern distance education and the application of information and communication technology is an important measure to make full use of high-quality educational resources, shorten the educational gap between urban and rural areas, and then realize urbanization and agricultural modernization.

China's Agricultural distance Education in the era of big data

With the arrival of the era of big data, agricultural distance education is also facing another great change since the era of printing. New educational models of online education, game-based learning, and organic combination of virtual community and real classroom continue to emerge, dispelling the traditional concept of training time and space, and realizing beyond-time-space learning and beyond-time-space interaction. In the face of the rapid development of new educational technology, how can China's agricultural distance education move towards the future and promote the integrated development of traditional and emerging educational technologies? after years of practice, the Central Agricultural Radio and Television School actively welcomes the changes brought about by the new educational technology, and explores effective ways of education and training for farmers, which are in line with China's national conditions and are suitable for rural farmers. It has opened up the development road of agricultural distance education with Chinese characteristics.

Since the 1980s, agricultural distance education has developed vigorously with the pace of China's reform and opening up and the sprouting of scientific and technological progress in China. Agricultural distance education represented by the Central Agricultural Radio and Television School has developed from the use of a single means of broadcasting at the initial stage to the current comprehensive use of radio, television, satellite network, Internet and other means. It is gradually entering a new era of remote interaction, companionship and intelligence. In terms of broadcasting and educational means, the Central Agricultural Radio School has set up two frequencies and three columns on the Central people's Broadcasting Station, with an annual broadcast time of more than 500 hours, and has led various provincial radio stations to set up peasant education and training programs. More than 10,000 village-level "loudspeaker" radio stations across the country broadcast practical technical programs due to the need for time. As for the means of television education, it broadcasts 550 hours a year on CCTV and 365 hours of teaching programs on the special channel for modern distance education for party members in rural areas. In terms of online education means, industry websites such as China Rural distance Education Network, China New Professional Farmers Network, and Nongguang online have been established, as well as a satellite network with nearly 600 remote receiving stations. Online education and teaching resources on demand and download services are carried out through the Internet, teaching resources are pushed through satellite networks, and "network lecture halls" are set up.

At present, the Central Agricultural Broadcasting School has set up 24 secondary vocational education majors, and agricultural broadcasting schools at all levels have set up nearly 100 majors with local characteristics; more than 100 text teaching materials and more than 600 hours of audio and video teaching materials have been developed every year, and network courseware and computer courses have been developed, thus forming a database of agricultural teaching resources with a complete variety, various forms and a considerable number. It not only basically meets the needs of the national agricultural radio and television school system to carry out agricultural distance education, but also provides rich teaching resources for agricultural vocational education and agricultural technology popularization, and the ability to serve the development of modern agriculture is constantly enhanced.

Build a new type of professional farmers to cultivate cloud platform

According to statistics, China has more than 600 million Internet users and more than 464 million mobile Internet users. In the future, virtual and flat interactive learning platforms such as digital schools, digital teachers, online classrooms, distance learning, online education, cloud education, cloud computing, microtechnology, big data, game-based learning, teaching students in accordance with their aptitude, flipped classroom, and distance video teaching will become new ways of learning. Agricultural distance education in China will closely follow the development of modern educational technology, explore the establishment of a cloud platform for intelligent farmers, and apply modern information technologies such as big data, intelligent terminals, mobile Internet, cloud computing and other modern information technology. build an "air classroom" at the national and provincial levels, improve the development of new vocational farmers' education and training resources, resources and information management services, online learning management and other functions We will focus on building "fixed classes" and "mobile classes" at the city and county levels, improve the functions of classroom teaching, online learning and sending teachers to the countryside, and establish "field classes" in industrial chains such as agricultural parks, farmers' cooperatives, agricultural enterprises and family farms to improve the function of practice and training. Through the integrated construction and comprehensive play of the four classrooms, we should innovate the means of agricultural distance education, promote the organic integration of distance means and traditional education methods, and provide more convenient and effective learning conditions for the broad masses of farmers. to build a new type of vocational peasant education and training system that meets the needs of multi-level, multi-form, wide coverage, regular and institutionalized education and training.

Build a public basic platform to provide a stage for the development of new professional farmers. First, a new type of vocational farmer education and training platform. Establish and improve the national agricultural broadcasting school as the main body, agricultural vocational colleges, agricultural scientific research and extension institutions, farmers' cooperatives, agriculture-related enterprises and other social resources as a supplement, "one master and multiple" new vocational farmer education and training system. Speed up the construction of a county farmer science and technology education and training center for overall coordination, several (N) education and training institutions with agricultural broadcasting schools as the main body, and several (X) field teaching bases (field schools) distributed in the agricultural industry chain to extend the coverage of the "1+N+X" new professional farmer training network, establish a stable long-term mechanism of "sending education to the countryside", and innovate the training model of "combination of agriculture and learning". Improve the training ability of new professional farmers. The second is a new type of vocational farmer education and training credit recognition platform. We will establish a national credit bank for the education and training of new vocational farmers, promote the docking of vocational training and vocational education, promote the mutual recognition of learning achievements, and enhance the service ability to support the lifelong learning of new vocational farmers. The third is a new intelligent platform for professional farmers to serve the whole process. We will strengthen the integrated construction of air classes, fixed classes, mobile classes and field classes with agricultural radio and radio schools as the main body, comprehensively integrate the cloud platform for intelligent farmers, and carry out education and training, identification, management and tracking services. improve the level of information services for new professional farmers. Fourth, a new type of professional farmers to cultivate a platform for international exchange and cooperation. We will carry out international comparative research on the cultivation of new professional farmers, introduce new professional farmer training models and high-quality teaching resources, establish bilateral and multilateral exchange and cooperation mechanisms for the cultivation of new professional farmers, and enhance the development ability of new professional farmers. Fifth, a new platform for promoting the development of professional farmers. We will run a good website for China's new professional farmers, build a Wechat platform for China's new professional farmers, hold meetings for the development of new professional farmers, promote interactive exchanges, dialogue and cooperation, and joint ventures, and enhance the self-development ability of new professional farmers.

China's agricultural modernization needs to create hundreds of millions of professional farmers, the use of agricultural distance education means to build a new type of professional farmers training cloud platform, will start a strong new engine for the development of modern agriculture.