Exhibitions and Conferences
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The Chinese Language Multimedia Textbook Exhibition, Beijing, China, July 4 & 5, 2006
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The first Confucius Institute Conference Exhibition,
Beijing, China, July 6 & 7, 2006
The first Virtual Confucius Institute - Confucius Institute at Michigan State University (CI-MSU) - was the only institute invited by Hanban to display its teaching and leaning materials, online programs, and face-to-face programs at the two exhibits. The first Virtual Confucius Institute attracted many publishers, multimedia developers, and representatives from Confucius Institutes in the world. The leading four programs include: The online Chinese Courses delivered by Michigan Virtual High School, the New Chengo Chinese, the adapted Sesame Street in China, and Education for Global Citizenship Schools (EGC). The new concept that these four leading programs was based on is designing and creating learning environments for learning Chinese as a foreign language, which was quite new to most of the audience in China. CI-MSU, the leading institute for hosting Chinese learning and teaching online, will set a pedagogically and theoretically sound model for learning Chinese as a foreign language.
