Dear members of the GMA Board and Executive Committee,
We are delighted to share with you the recent leadership change at the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance (GMA). Professor WANG Xiqin is now the President of Tsinghua University (GMA Chair Institution), and will act as the GMA Board member representing Tsinghua University and the Chair of the GMA Board.
Professor QIU Yong, the inaugural Chair of the GMA Board and now the Chairman of the Tsinghua University Council, would like to sincerely thank all the founding members for your continuous commitment and contributions since December 2020. He would also like to send his best wishes to the Alliance and all its members: “keep on promoting innovation in concepts, models and technologies of education, and developing more open, more integrated, and more resilient universities.”
The following is a brief remark by Professor WANG Xiqin (Board Chair of the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance, and President of Tsinghua University):
“Congratulations to the Alliance and its founding members on the tremendous efforts and achievements. I would like to use this opportunity to share some thoughts with you.
I remain confident and hopeful in the numerous advantages of developing high-quality MOOC and online education. First, it can promote well-rounded human development and improve quality of education through modernizing traditional classroom teaching and learning. Second, it can promote all-round social progress and improve equity of education through making high-quality educational resources more accessible to all learners. Finally, it can promote the building of a community with a shared future for mankind and explore the digital transformation of higher education through expanding our global influence and actively building a communication platform.
We must capitalize on digital technology to revitalize educational ideas, reform educational models, and actively contribute to transforming higher education in the digital era while also enhancing educational equity and quality. I trust you will continue to work with the Secretariat, and I am looking forward to working closely with you all to take our alliance to new heights.”
With best wishes,
Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Secretariat
alliance@mooc.global
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APPENDIX: Bio of WANG Xiqin
Board Chair of the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance;
President of Tsinghua University
Professor Wang Xiqin was appointed President of Tsinghua University in February 2022.
Born in 1968, Professor Wang was admitted to the Department of Radio Electronics (renamed the Department of Electronic Engineering in 1989) of Tsinghua University in 1986, He graduated with Bachelor’s degree in July 1991, and was exempted from examinations for postgraduate studies in the Department of Electronic Engineering. In August 1996, he graduated with a Ph.D. degree and then began working at Tsinghua.
At the Department of Electronic Engineering, he was once the Vice-Chair, and then the Chair in December 2006. He became the Associate Dean of the School of Information Science and Technology in November 2010. In August 2012, he was appointed as the Director of the Personnel Department and Director of the Human Resources Development Office. In September 2015, he served as the Vice-Chairman of Tsinghua’s Supervision Committee, and in February 2016 as the Assistant President of the University. He became the Vice President of Tsinghua University in December 2016. He served as the Executive Vice President of Tsinghua University from October 2018, and additionally the University’s Secretary-General from December 2018. In February 2022, he was appointed as President of Tsinghua University.
Professor Wang’s research interests focus on signal and information processing (radar signal and data processing, radar imaging, etc.).
He has won the Second Prize of Beijing Municipal Science and Technology Progress Award, the Second Prize of China State Shipbuilding Corporation Science and Technology Progress Award, and the Third Prize of State Education Commission’s Science and Technology Progress Award of China. As the project leader, he has completed a series of national-level scientific research projects, including the traffic flow detection and classification technology based on microwave and video fusion (the project of the National High-Tech R&D Program), the new system radar anti-jamming theory and technology (the pre-research project of “Eleventh Five-Year” Plan), and the theory, method and system of sparse microwave imaging (the project of National Key Fundamental R&D Program).
Short version of the bio:
Professor Wang Xiqin graduated from Tsinghua with Bachelor’s degree in 1991 and Ph.D. degree in 1996. Being a prominent scholar in electric engineering, he has a long and outstanding record as a teacher, researcher, and senior administrator at Tsinghua University. Prior to assuming the presidency, he was the Executive Vice President of the University since October 2018.
