On July 17, nearly 100 teachers from universities across the country gathered at Beijing Institute of Technology to start a two-day AI learning trip as students.
With the rapid development of ARTIFICIAL intelligence, the gap of AI talents in China is becoming more and more obvious. In order to accelerate the training of AI talents, hundreds of domestic universities have opened AI and big data majors in recent years, which contribute to the training of AI talents. However, the scarcity of AI teaching experience, teaching materials and practical platforms has always restricted the smooth establishment of AI-related majors and courses in universities.
Promoting the complementarity of advantages between schools and enterprises provides a new way of thinking to complement the shortcomings of AI teacher training. The AI training for college teachers at The Beijing Institute of Technology was co-sponsored by the Education Guidance Committee of Higher Education In Computer Science and the National Association of Higher Education in Computer Science and co-organized by Baidu and Tsinghua University Press. This activity is also the third stop of “2021 National AI Teacher Training · Paddling Summer College Tour”. In this event, nearly 100 university teachers from all over the country will jointly complete a number of learning contents from THE basic THEORY of AI to practical operation, and discuss the new model of AI teaching.
▲ Baidu Flying oar summer Teacher training College tour · Beijing Institute of Technology Station
At the launch ceremony, Professor Wang Meiling, Secretary of the Party Committee of the School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, Professor Li Weixing, Teacher Song Wenjie, teacher Yue Yufeng, as well as Baidu AI technology ecology Department General manager Liu Qian, Baidu Fly oar ecological operation director Zhou Qi attended the scene.
Professor Wang Meiling first made a speech on behalf of the university. She stressed the importance of the cooperation between Baidu and BIST, which played a positive role in the next step of scientific research and talent training. At the same time she says Beijing institute of technology talents with solid foundation in the industry, in recent years, the institute of automation attaches great importance to the training of artificial intelligence, perfecting the talents cultivation system in the field of artificial intelligence, hope everybody the teacher through this cooperation with baidu study, at the same time of learning theory, the learning algorithm used in the practical work.
Professor Wang Meiling, Party secretary of School of Automation, Beijing Institute of Technology, delivered a speech
“Industry development is closely related to talent training, which is the key foundation for AI to take the lead in cutting-edge technology and industrial applications,” Liu said in her speech. Based on the characteristics of AI industry application and disciplines, deepening the integration of industry and education, and cooperation between industry, university and research is a very important way to cultivate AI talents.”
She said, Baidu flying paddle and The North Institute of Technology has a full range of cooperation, 19 to 21 years, the North Institute of Technology has a number of teachers to participate in Baidu flying paddle teacher training; At the same time, Professor Wang Chongwen from the School of Computer Science and Professor Wang Meiling from the School of Automation respectively applied for the Collaborative education and Education Reform project and teacher training project of the Ministry of Education. Professor Li ronghua’s research project was also supported by the CCF-Baidu Pinecone Foundation. She hopes to have more opportunities to further deepen cooperation with various universities and teachers in the future, so as to lay a solid talent foundation for the development of artificial intelligence industry application.
Liu Qian, general manager of Baidu AI Technology ecology Department, delivered a speech at the event
Different from the previous deep learning teacher training in colleges and universities, the “2021 National ARTIFICIAL Intelligence Teacher Training · Flying oar Summer College Trip” series training adopts the teaching method of “our school teachers + Baidu engineers” to better improve the AI level of college teachers from both theoretical and practical aspects.
In the two days of classes, lu teacher from Beijing institute of technology, a star teacher li, wen-jie song and YueYuFeng teacher will teach artificial intelligence theory and practice of related courses, content from the foundation to advanced design, not only cover a gleam of frontier technology progress, will also be hot industry technical experience with teaching practice, for the connection of talent training and enterprise needs accurate.
During the course, Baidu engineers will participate in the practical teaching, guiding students to better learn and use the paddle, and learn from practical applications such as AI development and deployment. At the end of all the courses, students who pass the evaluation will be awarded the certificate of completion of the “Advanced Training Class of Artificial Intelligence Series courses in National Colleges and universities” to show encouragement.
It is reported that the “2021 National SUMMER Training Class for AI Teachers” will go to Harbin Institute of Technology, Tianjin University, Harbin Institute of Technology (Weihai Campus), Xiamen University, Chongqing University and other universities, and start the AI “great navigation” journey with university teachers.
Baidu fly OARS as China’s first independent research and development, feature-rich, open source and open platform for the industry level of deep learning, proposed the “big navigation” planned “sail” plan to specialise in colleges and universities, three years worth fly OARS will invest 500 million yuan of funds and resources, to support the country’s 500 colleges and universities, the key training 5000 teachers college AI Jointly train 500,000 future AI talents. The activity scene also analyzed the “AI talent industry-education integration plan” newly released by flying paddle in May.
Flying OARS will be carried out from the content, special cooperation, service level of industry-university-research practice. In terms of content, Baidu will cooperate with universities to publish a series of textbooks and courses. At the same time, it will open industry-level cases and data sets exported by Baidu and ecological partners to consolidate the content foundation. At the service level, Baidu will provide a number of services, including teacher training, AI Studio teaching platform, computing power support and other six systematic support; In addition, Baidu has also reached a number of special cooperation with universities to meet the diversified needs of AI teaching and practice in universities.
▲ AI talent production and education integration training program
Baidu has been actively planning the “ARTIFICIAL intelligence +X” compound talent cultivation ecology, continuously uniting the government, enterprises, universities and other social forces to accelerate the “integration of industry and education”, and promote the cultivation of AI talents. At present, it has trained 1 million AI technical and industrial talents, and plans to train another 5 million AI talents in the next five years. Baidu will continue to open up the cultivation of talents in colleges and universities to integrate AI with industry and education, solve the problem of “SHORTAGE of AI teachers” in colleges and universities, and jointly create a new situation of ARTIFICIAL intelligence talent teaching and training.
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