On the afternoon of June 27, two experts from Japan’s Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (MEXT) and the National Institute of Educational Policy visited the Institute of Curriculum and Instruction to exchange ideas on educational digitalization and classroom intelligent analysis. Members of the delegation include Arai Satoshi, a researcher on foreign education at MEXT Education Policy Bureau, and Fumio Fujiwara, director of elementary and secondary education research at the National Institute for Educational Policy Research.

Cui Yunhuo, Shen Xiaomin, Shi Yuchen, and Yang Xiaozhe from the ICI attended the exchange meeting. The meeting was hosted by ICI Professor Shen Xiaomin who also served as the translator. At the meeting, Professor Cui Yunhuo, ICI Director, expressed a warm welcome to the arrival of the delegation.

Mr. Arai Satoshi, a researcher on foreign education at MEXT Educational Policy Bureau, introduced the current status of educational digitalization in Japan. At present, Japanese classrooms have equipped primary and secondary school students each with an intelligent terminal, and digital teaching materials are developing rapidly, but classroom intelligent analysis technology is still weak.

Mr. Fumio Fujiwara, Director of Elementary and Secondary Education Research at the National Institute of Educational Policy Research, explained the purpose of the visit on behalf of the delegation and expressed his willingness to learn more about our country’s education digitalization and classroom intelligent analysis.

Associate Professor Yang Xiaozhe, director of the International Classroom Analysis Laboratory, introduced the current status of educational digitalization in China and the recent work of the laboratory, and answered questions related to educational digitalization from two experts.

Associate Professor Yang Xiaozhe, Director of the International Classroom Analysis Laboratory, and Associate Professor Shi Yuchen, Deputy Director, demonstrated the high-quality intelligent classroom analysis system to the two experts and presented the high-quality intelligent classroom diagnostic analysis report developed by the International Classroom Analysis Laboratory from four aspects including an overview of the report, student perspective, teacher perspective, and high-quality classroom analysis standards.

Subsequently, the two parties conducted in-depth exchanges on issues such as classroom intelligent analysis, the professional burden of primary and secondary school teachers, and digital textbooks for primary and secondary schools. Mr. Arai Satoshi and Mr. Fumio Fujiwara highly affirmed the cutting-edge nature of the International Classroom Analysis Laboratory’s high-quality classroom intelligent diagnostic analysis reports and hoped to strengthen cooperation and exchanges between the two parties in the future to assist the development of classroom analysis.

ICI Professor Cui Yunhuo said that Japan has many things to be learned from in terms of teacher professional development and educational digitalization and expected closer contact with relevant Japanese education departments to gain an in-depth understanding of Japanese classroom teaching to learn from excellent experience, and help the high-quality development of education in our country.