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2018-09-19

Weng Kai Wins the Zhejiang University Yongping Outstanding Teaching Contribution Award

By Yu Liu

He teaches 14 courses a year, spanning from freshmen to first year graduate students. He averaged more than 600 class hours in the past two years, and the student evaluation of his courses remains excellent.


He is a member of two national course teaching teams and has presided over three projects of the Ministry of Education. He has won four first prizes in provincial level teaching awards and one second prize in national level awards.


He lectures 5 MOOCs. The maximum number of students enrolled in a single semester taught by him is over 100,000, and more than 1.83 million students have benefited from his courses. He is the Chinese teacher with the most registered students in the Science & Engineering category, and is known as “No.1 of Chinese MOOC”.


He is an outstanding coach for the ACM programming competition, leading a team to the World Finals Championship; He has worked at Zhejiang University for 23 years and has served as a class president three times. He has been voted as the teacher I most want to meet multiple times in survey among new students. He is active on BBS and other online forums and is the initiator / early organizer of Zhejiang University's hiking trips.


He is Weng Kai, who goes by the alias FM on the Internet, the Brother Kai in the hearts of the students. He is a ZJU teacher with 20,000 followers on Weibo. He worked quietly on the front line of teaching and education reforming.


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