China Quality Course

China Quality Course is a program launched by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China since April 8, 2003.{{cite web |url=http://www.moe.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/s3843/201010/109658.html |title=教育部关于启动高等学校教学质量与教学改革工程精品课程建设工作的通知_教育部门户网站_MOE.GOV.CN |website=www.moe.gov.cn |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194029/http://www.moe.gov.cn/publicfiles/business/htmlfiles/moe/s3843/201010/109658.html |archive-date=2014-01-02}}

This program accepts applications for university lecturers that wish to put their courses online and will award the lecturers approved. The most prestigious award is for the “National Level”, followed by the “Provincial Level” and “School Level”.{{Cite book|last=Stian|first=Hklev|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A7NPqB5DJUoC&q=China+Quality+Course&pg=PA25|title=The Chinese National Top Level Courses Project: Usign{{sic|hide=y}} Open Educational Resources to Promote Quality in Undergraduate Teaching|date=2010|publisher=Stian Håklev|language=en}} The first group of "National Level" quality courses were about 150, which was announced on February 10, 2004.{{cite web | url=http://www.edu.cn/20040210/3098666.shtml | title=中国教育和科研计算机网Cernet }} From 2003 to 2010, 3862 courses had been produced at the national level by 746 universities.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jingpinke.com/about/jinppinke |title=精品课程介绍 - 首页 - 国家精品课程资源网 - Home Page |access-date=2013-04-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102193854/http://www.jingpinke.com/about/jinppinke |archive-date=2014-01-02 |url-status=dead }} According to the official website (https://web.archive.org/web/20180815145840/http://www.jingpinke.com/) for the China Quality Course, the total number of courses available online is more than 20,000.http://www.jingpinke.com {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815145840/http://www.jingpinke.com/ |date=2018-08-15 }} Retrieved on April 11, 2013.