Online Teaching During the “School is Out, but Class is On” Period - Based on 33,240 Online Questionnaire Surveys Across China

Oct 15, 2026

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, China’s Ministry of Education launched the initiative “School is Out, but Class is On.” Regions issued policies to use internet education resources for teaching activities. A nationwide network questionnaire surveyed education administrators, school leaders, teachers, students, and parents to clarify online teaching conditions and the attitudes of each stakeholder. Findings summarize key problems and propose countermeasures to support healthy, post-pandemic online teaching development and inform future crisis responses.

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Introduction

Policy Guarantee and Guidance

The Status Quo of “School is Out, but Class is On” Under Pandemic Prevention and Control

Online Teaching During the “School is Out, but Class is On” Period: Based on 33,240 Online Questionnaire Surveys Across China Dongdong Wang, 1,2 Huaibo Wang,3 Wei Zhang, 1 Hairong Wang, 1 Xiaoping Shen 1 1. Beijing National Center for Open & Distance Education Co., Ltd., Beijing 100081, China 2. Northeast Normal University, Changchun 130024, Jilin, China 3. Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China | Abstract. During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education of China issued a call for “School is Out, but Class is On ”. Various regions responded to and issued relevant policies to use Internet educational resources to carry out teaching activities. In this context, we conducted a network questionnaire survey on district and county education administrators, school administrators, teachers, students, and parents nationwide. It aimed to understand the online teaching situation and the attitudes of different subjects towards online teaching during the“School is Out, but Class is On ” period. Based on this, we summarized the problems existing in online teaching during the “School is Out, but Class is On ” period and put forward countermeasures to better serve online teaching, to ensure the healthy development of online teaching after the pandemic, and to provide a reference for coordinating national forces to carry out online teaching in response to unforeseen public crises in the future.
Best Evid Chin Edu 2020; 6(1): 753-767.
Doi: [10.15354/bece.20.ar061](10.15354/bece.20.ar061). | | --- | | How to Cite: Wang, D., Wang, H., Zhang, W., Wang, H., & Shen, X. (2020). Online teaching during the “School is Out, but Class is On”period: Based on 33,240 online questionnaire surveys across China. Best Evidence in Chinese Education, 6(1): 753- 767. | Keywords: COVID-19; “School is Out, but Class is On”; Online Teaching About the Authors: Dongdong Wang, Senior Engineer, Beijing National Center for Open & Distance Education Co., Ltd., Beijing 100081, China; and Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Education, Northeast Normal University, Liaoning, [China. Email: wangdd@mail.open.com.cn](China. Email: wangdd@mail.open.com.cn). Huaibo Wang, National Engineering Laboratory of Intelligent Technology and Application of Internet Education, Distance Education Research Center, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China. Email: [huaibo_wang@163.com](huaibo_wang@163.com) Wei Zhang, Beijing National Center for Open & Distance Education Co., Ltd., Beijing 100081, China. Email: [zhangwa@mail.open.com.cn](zhangwa@mail.open.com.cn) Hairong Wang, Beijing National Center for Open & Distance Education Co., Ltd., Beijing 100081, China. Email: [wanghr@mail.open.com.cn](wanghr@mail.open.com.cn) Correspondence to: Xiaoping Shen, Beijing National Center for Open & Distance Education Co., Ltd., Beijing 100081, China. Email: [shenxp@mail.open.com.cn](shenxp@mail.open.com.cn). Conflict of Interests: None. © 2020 Insights Publisher. All rights reserved. Creative Commons Non Commercial CC BY-NC: This article is distributed under the terms of the Crea tive Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ([http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by](http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by)nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed by the Insights Publisher. Introduction DUE to the continued COVID-19 pandemic, the Ministry of Education of China issued the “Notice on the Delay of the Start of the Spring Semester 2020” on January 27, 2020, requesting that the start of the spring semester be appropriately postponed, and encouraging all regions to use the Internet and information-based education resources to provide students Learning support to ensure “School is Out, but Class is On”(The Ministry of Education of China, 2020b) . To this end, schools at all levels have been developing plans and conducted online te

FAQs

What is the “School is Out, but Class is On” initiative and why was it implemented?

It was launched during the COVID-19 pandemic by China’s Ministry of Education to encourage the use of internet and information-based education resources. The goal was to provide learning support while the school term start was delayed.

Who participated in the nationwide online questionnaire survey?

The survey covered district and county education administrators, school administrators, teachers, students, and parents nationwide.

What does the study aim to deliver for online teaching practice?

It summarizes problems found in online teaching during the initiative and proposes countermeasures to better support online teaching. It also provides a reference for coordinating national efforts during future unforeseen public crises.

Oct 15, 2026

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