OUC Launches Live-streamed Open Classes to Promote Law-based Teaching

Recently, the Department of Student Affairs and Teacher Development and the Learning Resources Department (Digital Library) of the Open University of China (OUC) jointly launched a series of live-streamed open classes to show teachers how to teach in accordance with the law.

The classes are available within the OUC system, aiming to strengthen teacher ethics and consolidate their legal education, and ability to teach within the rules and laws.

The main lecturer is Ms. Zhang Ran from the Graduate School of Education, Peking University, focusing on the “Ten Codes of Professional Behaviour for Teachers in Higher Education in the New Era”, its background, legal foundations, and detailed contents, together with typical cases. Ms. Zhang explains the theory in simple language comprehensible to the trainees.

Full-time teachers, researchers, and administrators from the OUC headquarters and its 45 branches and industry colleges attended the first class, which received positive feedback from the audience of around 150,000. The branch trainees said that Ms. Zhang analysed the possible ethical risks for teachers within open education, and discussed ethical principles and red lines, advancing both university governance and law-based teaching.