Applying Online“Rain Classroom”to Blended Teaching of Physiology During the COVID-19 Epidemic
Author:Jianping Xu, Jialiang Xu, Yang Xiang, Chi Liu Author Unit: Department of Physiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Central South Universtiy, Changsha 410013, China
Abstract：Due to the exposure of the COVID-19 epidemic, the Chinese Ministry of Education implies that Although
there is a suspension of the physical offline classes for the safety precaution, the process of learning and
teaching in the academic institutes should continue. There is a need to ensure the equivalency of the quality
of online teaching and offline classroom teaching. Using the advantages of the flipped classroom and divided
classroom, we adopted Tencent tool + rain classroom online blending teaching mode of physiology to
carry out teaching for the clinical medicine major of Xiangya Medical College of Central South University.
This approach has achieved a good response from the teachers as well as students, and we have successfully
refined a new way of teaching which can be adopted in a situation like the epidemic of COVID-19.
