The challenge and development opportunity brought by coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak to Microbiology teaching in universities:The Special Issue for Education

ABSTRACT

The sudden emergence of a new coronavirus pneumonia epidemic made online online teaching the only teaching method during this period. This aspect presents new challenges to the teachers and students of colleges and universities, but at the same time it also presses the acceleration key to the development trend of open education reform in higher education that has been carried out in recent years. "Microbiology Bulletin" took the "17th National Microbiology Teaching and Scientific Research and Achievements Industrialization Symposium" as an opportunity to organize the publication of this issue of "University Teaching Topic Journal", which reflects well in recent years. Under the situation of open education, the latest progress and development trend of microbiology teaching reform and talent cultivation in China. There are also articles introducing the experience of selecting and using online teaching technology during the epidemic. It is hoped that the publication of this subject will help to further promote the majority of microbiology teachers to strengthen Internet awareness, create "Internet +" thinking, reshape the classroom teaching form, and further promote the construction of microbiology courses in China through the exchange and cooperation of teaching reform experience among the teachers Comprehensive improvement of the level and teaching quality.