A Brief Discussion About the Impact of Coronavirus Disease 2019 on Teaching in Colleges and Universities of China

In China, education is being impacted by Coronavirus Disease 2019, known as COVID-19 for short, which affects millions of families. Under such a special circumstance, higher education is supposed to not only shoulder its mission of teaching and educating, transferring knowledge, but also assume the heavy responsibility of maintaining social stability and building spiritual home. Under this general situation, in which Chinese puts epidemic prevention and control first, colleges and universities gradually carry out online teaching in China. However, a variety of problems surface in this practice. How about the effectiveness of the online teaching? What are the challenges faced by higher education? Can online teaching meet the educational demand in this special period? The authors consider the characteristics of the epidemic emergency, the challenges faced by teaching in colleges and universities, and the current teaching mode, and put forward some suggestions for the current practice, hoping to provide reference and inspiration for the practice of online teaching in colleges and universities.