The book Driving Lifelong Learning: Interview with CPC Party Secretaries or Presidents of China’s Open Universities on Transformation and Development of Open Universities planned by Distance Education in China Journal and published by OUC Publishing & Media Group was officially released.
Through interviews with the CPC Party secretaries or presidents of the Open University of China (OUC) and 44 provincial open universities (or RTVUs), the book reviews the remarkable results achieved by the OUC system in taking the initiative to integrate itself into the mainstream development direction and seizing new opportunities for transformation. It summarises the development experience of lifelong learning in Chin, gives in-depth thoughts on lifelong learning in China, and puts forward tasks for the future development of open education and lifelong learning.
As the book’s editor-in-chief, Li Song, vice president of the OUC, points out in the foreword, open universities have actively explored new construction models and made positive progress in their transformation and development, providing strong support for the construction of a national lifelong learning system and the construction of a learning society. The book brings together the exploration and practice of open universities in China over the past ten years in terms of governance system, education and teaching, management services, quality assurance, resource construction, scientific research, non-degree education, and international cooperation. It strives to showcase the new role, new action, and new outlook of the open university system in the new journey of the new era in all aspects.
In an interview, Jing Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the OUC, said that along with ten years of great changes in the new era, the OUC has also gone through a decade of transformation and development. Throughout this decade, the OUC has shown the world a new type of university that is “open to all, without walls, beyond time and space, with equal emphasis on degree and non-degree continuing education, full integration of information technology and education, and the gathering and sharing of quality resources”.
Reprinted by the OUC News Network from People’s Daily Online