"How could the international community so thoroughly misunderstand what was going on in China for over 7 years?" asks Stian HÃ¥klev. I think it's pretty easy to misunderstand because it's not always easy to get information about China (and if anyone can point me to Chinese resources on ed tech and related topics, I'd be interested). Anyhow, HÃ¥klev uses this post to trace the myth that China's Top Level Courses Project (TLCP) was created by the China Open Resources for Education (CORE) consortium. "This information was not readily available. The Ministry of Education has webpages with information in English about the higher education system in China, but none of these mention the Top Level Courses Project. No official publication has ever been put out that introduces the Top Level Courses Project in English. In fact, it does not even have an official English translation, which has led to a multitude of different translations (China Quality OpenCourseWare, NPWDEC, Top-Quality Courses, etc). Although more than 3,000 academic papers have been published about aspects of this project in Chinese academic journals, until recently no significant paper had been published in English."
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