From December 14 to 16, 2023, the Global MOOC and Online Education Conference took place in Milan, Italy. The theme of this conference was “Future University and Education Reconstruction Driven by Artificial Intelligence”. It was jointly organized by the Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance and the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education, and co-hosted by Tsinghua University and Politecnico di Milano.

Since its first edition in 2020, the Global MOOC and Online Education Conference has been held continuously for four years. Its objective is to gather global experts and scholars to contemplate the future of higher education, particularly in the context of digital education. This year, the conference introduced the “Global MOOC and Online Education Alliance Award” for the first time. Twelve courses from eight countries were honored with this award. The course “Principles of Electric Circuits," jointly submitted by Zhu Guiping and Yu Xinjie from the Department of Electrical Engineering and Applied Electronics at Tsinghua University, was recognized as one of the award-winning courses. The accolade acknowledges the outstanding achievements of the course, which is based on a blended learning approach involving MOOCs, highlighting the high-quality development of the course “Principles of Electric Circuits”.