On 26 January 2022, a meeting summing up the teaching ability competition of the 2021 National Vocational Student Skills Competition was held in Beijing. The Open University of China (OUC) won an outstanding contribution award for its technical support for the competition, which received high praise from the Department of Vocational and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education. Li Song, vice president of the OUC, was invited to attend the meeting.

According to the work deployment of the National Vocational Student Skills Competition, the OUC Digital Learning Resources Centre has committed to providing technical support services for the competition for the past 11 years, engaging in website construction, operation and maintenance, online registration, uploading materials, online evaluation, on-site competition support, and related data management. The OUC Digital Learning Resources Centre has upgraded the system every year to adapt to the new requirements of the competition according to MOE requirements, reviewed the online registration materials, and provided environmental support and technical services for the online evaluation of the competition. During the on-site competitions, the centre was responsible for statistical summaries and on-site scoring of the entries through the online system, as well as sharing the resources of the winning works of the competition.    

In addition to the online evaluation process, the 2021 competition requests that the final competition should also be processed through the official website via its online evaluation system compared to previous years. To meet the needs of uploading videos in a concentrated time limit during the finals, the centre developed new functions on the official website, took into full considerations of various factors such as the time sessions, file sizes, amount, time length, concurrence of the uploading and formulated technical standard for the network environment configuration and video coding. Meanwhile, the centre has conducted overall expansion and upgrading for the operational environment including the servers, storage, bandwidth and security policy to ensure that the efficiency, stability, safety and order of uploading the entries during the finals.

The aim of the competition is to thoroughly implement General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on vocational education and the spirit of National Vocational Education Conference. It also aims to adhere to the principle of “promoting teaching, learning, reform, and construction through competition,” guide colleges, schools, and teachers to make moral education a fundamental task, and promote the “Three Types of Education,” namely, education for all members of society, education with comprehensive procedures, and all-round education, and implement the requirements of “ideological and political education in courses” according to the deployment of the National Vocational Education Reform and the Action Plan for Improving Quality and Creating Excellence in Vocational Education (2020-2023). 262 teams from 33 provinces, cities, autonomous regions, and municipalities directly under the Central Government participated in the online final competition.

By OUC