The opening ceremony of the Jiangxi Branch of the Open University of China (OUC) was held at Jiangxi Radio and TV University (RTVU) on December 27, 2013. Yang Zhijian, President of the OUC, and Shi Rongrong, Deputy Secretary of the Education Working Committee of Jiangxi Province and Secretary of Jiangxi RTVU Party Committee, jointly inaugurated the branch.
The China Association for Educational Technology (CAET) 2013 Annual Conference, along with a seminar on The Construction of Digital Campuses and Massive Online Open Classes (MOOCs), was held in Haikou City a few days ago. The theme for this year’s annual conference was “Information Technology Deepening Enables the Balanced Regional Development of Education”.
On December 13, 2013, the inaugurated ceremony of Hainan Branch of the Open University of China (the OUC) was held in Hainan Radio and TV University (RTVU). Yang Zhijian, the President of the OUC, and Li Hongmei, the CPC Party Secretary of the Hainan RTVU unveiled the nameplate of Hainan Branch of the OUC.
On December 27, the Bayi School of the Open University (OUC) held its 2013 Press Conference on Military Distance Education. Director Zhang Yichen said that over 13 years, the Bayi School had helped over 160,000 noncommissioned officers achieved their college dream. Through its advanced teaching model, the OUC’s military distance education has gained the respect of the army’s noncommissioned officers.
From 4th to 6th of December, the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Distance Education Professional Committee of Universities under the Chinese Association for Educational Technology (CAET) (shortened as the Professional Committee) was convened in Yueyang, Hunan province. Its major events included: the release of the digitization scientific research platform and a display of achievements; a news conference on the book “Example Guiding and Teaching Praxis” and seminars on the development of grass-roots-level RTVUs,
The 8th Confucius Institute Conference was held in Beijing's China National Convention Centre on Dec. 7 & 8, 2013. With “Reviewing the Past, Looking to the Future” as its theme, the conference adopted a practical method of case study utilizing dissection and analysis, hoping to provide a platform of experience sharing and information exchange for various Confucius Institutes all around the world. The conference also intended to introduce MOOC to the Confucius Institute to further promote Chinese language and Chinese culture. More than 2,000 university presidents and representatives of various Confucius Institutes from 120 countries and regions attended the conference.
On November 21-22, the China International Distance Education Conference 2013 took place in Beijing. The conference, whose theme was “Openness, Integration and Innovation – Online Learning Opening the Door to the Age of Lifelong Learning”, focused on the new mode, new strategies and new opportunities for online learning development, and especially discussed new thinking, new methods and new measures of the way that online learning is pushing forward the establishment of a lifelong learning system and the construction of the structures of continuous lifelong learning.
On October 25-26, the 2013 Annual Meeting of Beijing Universities’ Digital Libraries, hosted by the Digital Library Committee of Research Institute of Higher Education Library under the Beijing Society of Higher Education and organized by Peking University Library, was held in Beijing. The theme of this seminar was “The Reform and Innovation of the Digital Library during the Age of Big Data”.