The first two-year cloud（online）community, with 130 foreign language teachers from more than 90 universities located at different parts of China, has been completed. The second two-year cloud community began in March, 2022. About 400 teachers from more than 130 universities have joined the second one. Developing such communities across the whole country serves two purposes: 1) to overcome geographical barriers and inequality of educational resources in China and 2) to promote the production-oriented approach, an innovative pedagogy proposed by the Chinese scholar. Based on practice, a theory of cloud interconnectedness has been put forward for developing such cloud communities alike. The theory can be best illustrated diagrammatically in three circles. The inner circle includes cognitive, social and emotional interconnectedness, with “problem chains” as a node of the links. The middle circle demonstrates the working process of the online activities, consisting of three phases: preparation, formal gathering and follow-up. The outer circle shows human-network interconnections as the basis of the cloud community. The theory of cloud interconnectedness has three assumptions: 1) The closer the interconnectedness, the better the learning outcomes. 2) The degree of interconnectedness depends on the quality of the designed “problem chains” based on specific tasks. 3) The three types of interconnectedness function at the whole working process to achieve the desired outcome.
