On June 26, 2016, OUC Dabieshan Experimental School, set up by the OUC and Xinyang Vocational and Technical College, was officially founded. The school is designed to provide education with targeted measures to alleviate poverty in the Dabieshan region, cultivating learners with practical skills and providing talent support for regional economic and social development.
This autumn the school will set up three academic undergraduate majors: Nursing, Pre-school Education, and Business Administration.
On the morning of that day, the plaque unveiling ceremony was held at Xinyang Vocational and Technical College, Henan Province. President of the OUC Yang Zhijian and secretary of the Xin Yang municipal Party committee Qiao Xinjiang jointly inaugurated the Experimental School. Yang Zhijian said in his speech that the Experimental School is a part of the OUC school organization system and it assumes the reform and innovation of the experimental and demonstration task. It is hoped that the school will fully integrate the high quality resources of both sides to explore a new school-running mode and make its due contributions to the social and economic development of the Xinyang and Dabieshan regions with its distinct school-running characteristics, high quality education service, and higher quality education.
Yang hoped that the school could make efforts in three aspects: First, the school should adapt to the trend of "Internet+", explore the new web-based learner development mode, and make full use of modern information technology to create a friendly digital learning environment. With online learning space as the basis and online core curriculum as the core, the school should provide a full set of learner support services for students through its online teaching team. It should form a pattern with high quality that can be copied and promoted to ensure the teaching quality through the online teaching management and online learning evaluation. Second, the school should further explore credit bank construction, break through the boundaries between degree and non-degree studies, horizontally realizing mutual accreditation between social institutions, vertically reflecting the connection of different levels, so as to realize the accreditation, accumulation, and transfer of learning achievements, promote the communication between the secondary, vocational, and all kinds of institutions of higher education, expand the academic promotion channels for students, and meet their needs of development. Third, in view of the poverty alleviation plan and education-aided poverty alleviation in the Dabieshan region, the school should set up specialty courses to meet its economic and industrial structure and learner development needs, integrate high quality learning resources, create the digital learning environment, explore mobile learning modes, help improve the quality of the rural labour force, and provide education support for regional economic and social development.
Vice mayor of Xinyang City Zhang Mingchun said in his speech that OUC Dabieshan Experimental School, set up by both Xinyang Vocational and Technical College and the OUC, is a major initiative in serving the rise of Central China and the revitalization of the Dabieshan region by two universities, from both Beijing and the local province. The establishment of the school not only brought a rare opportunity for the development of higher education in Xinyang, but will also play a positive and exemplary role in the applied-type of learner development and transformation of economic development. In the future, Xinyang municipal government will give full support to the school, cooperate closely, provide good service, and create a sound environment for its development.
By News Centre, OUC