Helge Hoivik is a Professor at Oslo University College, and director of the Latina Lab. He has been devoted to the design and research of digital learning materials since the 1980s. He was previously awarded a Fulbright Scholarship by the U.S. Government. His main areas of research include mobile learning, e-textbooks, cloud computing, blended learning and teaching research and development based on MOOCs, and the research and development of game-based education software.
Professor Alan Tait is one of the most famous experts in the field of international open and distance education. He was pro-vice-chancellor (academic) of the Open University, UK, from 2007 to 2012, was a member of the ICDE Executive Committee and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Learning for Development (sponsored by the Commonwealth of Learning), and has been a visiting professor at several universities in Europe.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) seeks to build peace through international cooperation in education, the sciences, and culture.
General Information
In May 2006, with the support and guidance of the Confucius Institute Headquarters (Hanban), the Open University of China (OUC) and Michigan State University (MSU) jointly established the world’s first online Confucius Institute conducting Chinese teaching via Internet-based means, the Confucius Institute at Michigan State University (CI-MSU in short) .
I. Cooperation with Other Universities
The Joint Learning Centre of the OUC and OUT
The Joint Learning Centre (JLC), which was constructed with the mutual efforts of the Open University of China (OUC) and the Open University of Tanzania (OUT), was established in July 2018.
Guided by the general development goals of the All-China Federation of Returned Overseas Chinese (AFROC), and relying on the advantages of the OUC's teaching resources and platform, the OUC’s Huaqiao College plays a leading role among open universities in constructing a lifelong educational system and a learning-oriented society.
The OUC’s International Chinese Language Education (undergraduate) major aims to develop and cultivate teachers of Chinese to foreign speakers.
From 2012 to date, the OUC has held 21 sessions of international Chinese teacher training and designed localised and modular courses according to the practical needs of the Chinese teaching process in China and abroad. Teachers from 56 OUC branches (local radio and TV universities) and over 30 Chinese universities have participated in the training sessions.