China's Formal Online Education under COVID-19

Zehui Zhan is a professor and Doctoral supervisor in South China Normal University. She is the Youth Pearl River Scholar, Hong Kong Scholar, and PI of the smart educational equipment industry–university–research cooperation base. She has published more than 50 papers and two textbooks in the field, and got other honors such as the annual award of youth excellent universities teacher from Fok Yingdong Education Foundation and the Ministry of Education in China, the title of best teachers achieving highest teaching quality, and the first prize of national education software competition. Her major research interests include STEM education and learning science.Liming Huo is a postgraduate student whose research interests are STEAM Education, Programming Education, and Smart Education, from School of Information Technology in Education, South China Normal University, and also a teacher at Xiguan Guangya Experimental School, Liwan District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province.Xiao Yao is a second-year postgraduate student whose research interests are STEAM Education, Artificial Intelligence Education, and Smart Education, from School of Information Technology in Education, South China Normal University. Baichang Zhong is the outstanding professor from School of Information Technology in Education at South China Normal University, China. Dr. Zhong has published over 160 academic papers in major Chinese and International journals indexed by CSSCI and SSCI in the field of educational technology. He received the 5th National Excellent Supervisor of M.Ed. in China in 2016. His major research interests include robotics education, STEM education, and online education in K‐12.

• 1: Introduction 2: Theoretical basis 3: Research method 4: The first stage: Proposal period 5: The second stage: Exploratory period 6: The third stage: Full deployed period 7: The fourth stage: Exiting period 8: Discussions 9: Implication