Prof. Christoph Meinel invited to the FCS editorial board
On March 18, 2014, Prof. Christoph Meinel, a member of Acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, was appointed as an editorial board member of Frontiers of Computer Science. Held in New Main Building of Beihang University, the appointment ceremony was attended by Academician Wei Li (FCS Editor-in-chief), Prof. Zhang Xiong (FCS Executive Editor-in-chief), Dr. Feng Cheng (University of Potsdam, Germany), FCS Young AE Dr. Junjie Peng (Shanghai University), as well as teachers and students from School of Computer Science and Engineering and School of Software, Beihang University. During the ceremony, Prof. Wei Li awarded Prof. Christoph Meinel the Letter of Appointment and invited him to give a presentation named “Challenges and State-of-the-Art of MOOCs”. In his presentation, Prof. Meinel analyzed innovation of MOOCs compared to traditional university education and online courses, and also made an introduction to the status quo of MOOCs in University of Potsdam as well as in Germany. The participants had an energetic discussion with Professor Meinel on issues such as industrial prospect, courses diversity and intellectual property.