A few days ago, Appreciation and Creation of Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings & Moodle Platform, a China National Arts Fund communication, exchange, and promotion project applied for by the Open University of China (OUC) in 2017, was successfully checked and accepted.

The project was the first approved National Arts Fund project applied for by the OUC in August 2017. After the approval of the project, an implementation team headed by Professor Tang Yingshan and consisting of relevant experts from the OUC headquarters and branches, and other external groups OUC was organised in the Faculty of Humanities. In order to promote the Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting course, the project developed an online art learning platform based on Moodle (PC) and apps (mobile) that is dedicated to the online dissemination and promotion of Chinese traditional culture.

Following a process including investigation, construction of the learning platform, operation, and online learning, the project was completed in July 2018. 1,286 learners from all over China participated in online learning at the eight study centres of Beijing, Harbin, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Ningbo, Chengdu, Hohhot, and Fuzhou, of which 660 received certificates of completion. From August to September 2018, the project team gave seven-day offline face-to-face tutorials in the three cities of Hangzhou, Cixi, and Harbin. A teaching model combining strong online learning support and offline tutorials has helped students to achieve remarkable learning results. Over the course of the implementation of the project, an exhibition was held to show the learning achievements of outstanding students and A Collection of Outstanding Works from the Online Course of Traditional Chinese Landscape Painting was published.

Below are some of the students’ outstanding works:

Autumn Picture of People in the Yuan Dynasty by Han Yi

Poetic Picture of People in the Tang Dynasty by He Hongfang

During the course of implementation, two relevant papers were published and eight keynote speeches were made at conferences in China and abroad. Eighty-five percent of the project participants studied using mobile terminals.

Written by Yang Yao, photographed by Xiao Tingting, OUC