Ms. Cheng Shouyan, a member of the Li ethnic group and of the Communist Party of China, graduated from the School of Government of Sun Yat-Sen University as a Doctor of Philosophy in political science. She has taught at Guizhou Radio and Television University (RTVU) since July 2006, and is now deputy dean of, and a professor in, the Department of Distance Education.
Her credo is that, while hope lies in the heart, the future is created with the hands.
Her life has been focused on the classroom, where she has been a paragon of virtue and learning. She takes good care of her students, continually advances her teaching skills, and has achieved outstanding results, making her very popular with both her students and colleagues.
Loving her job and working hard to be a model
Ms. Cheng Shouyan loves her job, and to meet the needs of RTVU students makes use of multimedia as a way of making abstract concepts tangible to them. Her students have had above-average results, her teaching has received positive evaluations, and she has done a great deal to help students prepare to defend their dissertations. As course coordinator for the undergraduate Administrative Management programme at Guizhou RTVU, she has drawn up regulations and helped organise student internships. For courses such as E-Government she has put teaching materials online and helped branch schools and study centers deal with teaching problems. Her own main courses are Administrative Leadership, E-government, Science of Administrative Organisation, Ethnic Theory and Policy, and The Political System of Contemporary China; she has also led the construction of courses such as E-Government, and the E-Government textbook she edited was published by the OUC Publishing House in August 2015, and put to use the following year. She has also created and applied micro-course resources, with good results.
Maintaining standards in teaching and management
As deputy dean of the Department of Distance Education, Ms. Cheng Shouyan is both a teacher and manager, and works overtime to maintain standards. Her jobs include teacher supervision, both undergraduate and junior-college, the construction of programmes such as Public Administration and Accounting, and the management of course teams. The focuses of the seminars she has organised have been communications, uses of new technology, and team cooperation, and she is also involved in innovations related to mobile teaching (education by way of smart phones). The latter includes developing new course resources, expanding teacher-student communications to include texting, pictures, voice recordings and video, and providing students with ways to use their limited time to study.
A scholar and researcher
In terms of scientific research, she has published more than 60 monographs, 13 in core journals, which have been included in the CSSCI. She has led projects such as “Enhanced Implementation of Township Governments in Guizhou” for the Guizhou Provincial Department of Education in 2009; “Open Education for the Disabled: Reform of Student Management and Services to Enable ‘Inclusive Education’” for the Open University of China in 2014; and “Standardising the Quality of Open Education in Guizhou” and “From RTVU to Open University: the Development of Distance Education in Guizhou”, both for the Modern Distance Education Research Centre of the Guizhou Provincial Department of Education in 2016. She has also helped compile the textbook Curriculum and Teaching Theory of Distance Education, and completed several other projects for the government of Guizhou.
Striving successfully for excellence
In June 2012, her project“Concept and Application of E-government” came third among Guizhou RTVU 2012 e-teaching plans; in November 2015, her micro-course “Influence of E-Government on Government Management” was named “outstanding”in the first Guizhou RTVU micro-course competition; in 2016, “Influence of E-Government on Government Officials” came second in the Guizhou vocational-technical colleges micro-course competition; in December 2015, she came third in the Guizhou RTVU young-teachers competition; in 2013 and 2015, she was named a top Guizhou RTVU young teacher with academic capabilities; in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016 she was recognised for her moral probity; in 2017, she was named “an excellent teacher” of Guizhou RTVU; and in 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2016 her performance evaluation was “excellent”.
Ms. Cheng Shouyan believes that dreams should lead to expectations, and that only expectations inspire hard work. Persevering in one's dreams is the road to success.
By OUC News Network