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Rural small schools in China have characteristics including remote location, small scale and poor conditions in infrastructure, quality of teaching and teacher. The shortage of teacher resources is the biggest problem in rural small schools compared with other resources. To address the problem and help offer sufficient and high-quality courses in rural small schools, the sharing of high-quality teacher resources are the most significant way to achieve it. In this paper, synchronous interactive hybrid classroom and synchronous interactive special delivery classroom teaching are put forward to facilitate the sharing of high-quality teacher resources in experimental areas. This article introduces a case of practicing the sharing of high-quality teacher resources by information technology from the urban school to the rural school in Xian’an district, Hubei province. The article concludes with a discussion of the findings for sharing teacher resources to provide equal educational opportunities between urban and rural areas.
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Zuo, M., Wang, W., Yang, Y. (2019). Promoting High-Quality Teachers Resource Sharing and Rural Small Schools Development in the Support of Informational Technology. In: Cheung, S., Lee, LK., Simonova, I., Kozel, T., Kwok, LF. (eds) Blended Learning: Educational Innovation for Personalized Learning. ICBL 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11546. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21562-0_21
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