12th July 2018 marked the completion ceremony for the online course “Appreciation and Creation of Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings Moodle Platform”, an exchange and popularisation project from National Arts Fund in partnership with the Open University of China (OUC). The completion ceremony was held by the faculty and students on the project team from the OUC headquarters, Harbin branch, and Xi’an branch.
The 1st OUC English Speaking Contest has come to an end. 38 contestants from 27 OUC branches from all over the nation presented an elegant English-language audio-visual feast.
To help implement the Development Plan for the Elderly Education (2016-2020), address the problem of an aging population, and meet the diverse learning needs of the elderly, the OUC is setting up a pilot Painting and Calligraphy degree programme for older adults. On the morning of5th July, 2018, the first meeting on the construction of this programme was held at the OUC headquarters.
The OUC spring 2018 final exams were held from 7-8th July 2018. 109 examinees from Shulanghu Island, 150 kilometres away from downtown Ningbo, also attended the exams.
In order to promote exchange and cooperation with advanced international educational scientific research institutes in the fields of discipline and major construction, talent training, and academic research in the Open University of China (OUC), expand the international influence of discipline development, and increase opportunities for international cooperation in school running, the OUC has created opportunities to encourage teachers to actively participate in global professional disciplinary conferences since 2018.
Zhu Chao has been a Pre-School Education undergraduate at Panan Radio and Television University (Panan RTVU) in Zhejiang since the spring of 2015, and head of the central kindergarten of Shanghu town, Panan county. Becoming a preschool educator was her childhood dream. Now almost 30, Ms. Zhu has needed only four years to become an excellent kindergarten teacher.
Building a learning society is critical to meeting current development demands. It is also an important component of realising the Two Centenary Goals and the Chinese Dream of national rejuvenation. Based on the requirements of “improving open universities” and a pilot “exploring the building mode of open universities,” both part of the National Outline for Medium and Long-term Education Reform and Development (2010-2020), the Open University of China (OUC) has made positive explorations into the Chinese mode of open universities, and fruitful achievements, rendering powerful assistance to the building of a learning society in China.
When it was established in 2012, the Open University of China (OUC) proposed writing and publishing a Quality White Paper. In 2013, the first annual quality report of the OUC was compiled. Since then, the working mechanism of writing an annual quality report had come into being and has been constantly improved in later work.