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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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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