On the morning of 18 January 2021, after 37 years of operation, Hainan Radio and TV University was officially renamed Hainan Open University (OU), ushering in a new era of strategic transformation and upgraded development. On the same day, an opening ceremony for Hainan OU was held along with Hainan TV Evening School of Rural Revitalisation and Hainan University of Rural Revitalisation.
Recently, the Publicity Department of Liaoning Provincial Party Committee, Liaoning Provincial Office of Spiritual Civilisation, and Liaoning Provincial Poverty Alleviation Office awarded 10 comrades in Liaoning Province with the title of “Liaoning Good Men: Heroes of Poverty Alleviation.” Comrade Liu Jiancheng from Liaoning Open University (Liaoning OU) was one of the honourees.
"Shan...Hai...Yu...Xian..." Clear pronunciations of Chinese characters could be heard coming from the culture auditorium in Qiujiashan Village, Ningbo City. A group of older Chinese with reading glasses were sitting upright and earnestly reading out the characters in their Ningbo dialect, and passersby hearing them knew they belonged to the literacy class for seniors in the neighbourhood.
A ceremony for the renaming of Anhui Radio and TV University (Anhui RTVU) as Anhui Open University (Anhui OU) was held on the morning of 20 January 2021.
On 8 January 2021, the Institute of Educational Technology of the Open University (OUUK) and the Artificial Intelligence and Human Languages Lab of Beijing Foreign Studies University jointly published the ninth report on innovating pedagogy, namely, Innovating Pedagogy 2021. This year’s report proposes 10 innovations in pedagogy: best learning moments; enriched realities; gratitude as pedagogy; using chatbots in learning; equity-oriented pedagogy; hip-hop based education; student co-created teaching; telecollaboration for language learning; evidence-based teaching; and corpus-based pedagogy.
Recently, a five-minute microlecture, "Birds and Nature", developed by the Open University of China (OUC), came first at the 9th Liangxi Popularisation of Forestry Science Awards.
Wang Gui, a member of the Communist Party of China (CPC), was born in October 1996 in Huanggang, Hubei Province.
About Yu Chunhe
Yu Chunhe began majoring in Administrative Management, a junior-college programme at the Siping division of the Jilin branch of the Open University of China(OUC), in autumn 2019.