After two years of course construction, one of the “E-learning Educator Training” serial courses, Online Education Management, held its first session of training class from April 27 to June 14, 2015. 

The State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter short as the State Administration) recently unveiled the 2015 list of one hundred excellent audio-visual electronic publications recommended to national youth. Handwork with Kids series published by the Multimedia Press, the Open University of China, was selected for the list.

The results of 2014 Good News Prize Selection in Chinese University Newspaper were recently unveiled. China RTVU Daily sponsored by the Open University of China (OUC) participated in the selection for the first time and achieved excellent results.

The review committee for the outstanding graduates of the Open University of China (OUC) recently reviewed the candidates for the "2014 Class of Outstanding Graduates of the OUC" and publicly announced the final list of award winners. 438 students were announced as part of the"2014 Class of Outstanding Graduates of the OUC". 

On June 14th, 2015, a small symposium on the internationalization of academic journals was held at the publishing house of Distance Education in China.

Ancient Chinese society was dominated by a patriarchal clan system, in which the blood relationship was regarded as the most important social connection. Therefore the sense of a clan is deeply rooted in the minds of ancient Chinese people, and was actually a tightly united group. However nowadays this concept has quite faded away. In this lecture we will get to know some ideas about how a Chinese clan is defined and the scope it covers. 

On March 4th,2015, the National Publication Foundation unveiled the list of projects chosen to receive funding in 2015, and the project “Lectures on Science Popularization by 100 Academicians and Experts” from Multimedia Press, The Open University of China (OUC), was among those chosen. The National Publication Foundation is the third largest fund set up by the state, following the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Sciences Fund. It mainly subsidizes the publishing of books and a few electronic audio-visual products with cultural inheritance and preservation value.

The iPad version of “Your Hand Drawing” application software (hereinafter referred to as “Your Hand Drawing App”) developed by the Open University of China (OUC) was formally launched recently at Apple’s app store. From January 2015 on, students of the OUC and the general public will be able to download this professional graphics software for free via their personal app store account and use it to practice painting and drawing.