Curriculum Standards development in China and Case Study

As the Information and Communication Technology is increasingly leveraged in education to advance education efficiency and effectiveness across the world, there came the need of new standards that could better support the integration of ICT into education. Abundant standards for pure technology or for traditional teaching & learning resources such as Curriculum Standards have been published, but there seem to be a lack of Curriculum Standards particularly for ICT-supported or Internet-based curriculum. So this paper brings a brief introduction of traditional curriculum standards and introduces one popular product developed according to National Curriculum Standards of China, to illustrate the latest use of Curriculum Standards in ICT field and initiate the discussion of why should we and how could we develop a set of new curriculum standards that could be applied to and provide guidance for the development of online curricula, which differs from the traditional curriculum standards in its technical accounts.