On the 6th and 7th of December, 2018, the OUC Seminar on the Construction of Online Teaching Teams for Economic Management Courses was convened in Xiamen. It aimed to summarise the work experience of participants in this area and enhance the recognition and quality of their work. Thirty-one team members from OUC headquarters and branches participated.
Liu Zhimin, director of the Faculty of Economics and Management, gave a report titled The Construction and Thinking of Online Teaching Teams, Based on the Faculty of Economics and Management Pilot. She said that the construction of online teaching teams relies on the internet and needs to integrate teaching staff from inside and outside the system, standardise teaching, strengthen service, implement teaching processes and enhance teaching quality. We must also be more flexible in our approach to online teaching teams, focusing on students, completing team-work systems, building a relevant management system, optimizing the structure of online-teaching teams, enhancing training, transferring the teaching concept, and continuously improving teaching design. At the same time, the technological needs of the teams must be met.
Core members of the online-teaching teams, Huang Dafang (Chengdu branch), Zhang Guangcan (Jiangsu branch), Xu Yufeng (Henan branch), Liu Huiping (Ningxia branch), Sun Hui (Shanghai branch), Yang Xudong (Harbin branch), and members of team from OUC headquarters, introduced their experiences with the construction and operation of the teams. In the seminar, the main issues with their operation were discussed, including how to build, operate and manage them going forward.
Liu Zhimin concluded by stating that we should build online teaching teams using courses as the basic units, gradually construct courses by relying on relatively complete teams and concentrating on online teaching and learning, with evaluation mechanisms and a management system built to correspond to these. We should innovate, serve the students, guarantee teaching quality, and remain flexible in the construction of the teaching teams.
By Cai Yunjiao, OUC