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Coronavirus pushes education online

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Litao Sun, Yongming Tang and Wei Zuo reflect on their experience of nationwide distance learning in China’s universities during the COVID-19 outbreak.

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Fig. 1: Statistics of responses to questionnaires collected among 39,854 students at Southeast University in China.

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  1. Ministry of Education of the People’s Republic of China http://www.moe.gov.cn/srcsite/A08/s7056/202002/t20200205_418138.html (2020).

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We acknowledge G. Zhang, B. Wang, J. Zheng, H. Ding, B. Jin, W. Sun, Q. Wang, L. Teng, Y. Xiong, C. Zhu, T. Xu and R. Bacsa for their support and insightful suggestions.

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Sun, L., Tang, Y. & Zuo, W. Coronavirus pushes education online. Nat. Mater. 19, 687 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-020-0678-8

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