Beijing, 22 May 2025 - The finals of the Third Teaching Skills Competition of the Open University of China (OUC) were successfully held at the Wukesong Campus.
The event, aligned with the 2024–2035 Master Plan on Building China into a Leading Country in Education and the Three-Year Action Plan, highlighted the university’s commitment to promoting the spirit of educators and advancing educational and teaching capabilities. OUC President WANG Qiming delivered an opening speech. OUC Vice President FAN Xianrui attended the event, while OUC Vice President LIU Xuanxuan, presided over the competition and OUC Vice President XU Mingjun, announced the competition results.
OUC President Wang Qiming Delivers an Opening Speech
OUC Vice President Fan Xianrui Attends the Event
OUC Vice President LIU Xuanxuan Presides over the Competition
OUC Vice President XU Mingjun Announces the Competition Results
President WANG highly commended the competition's significant role in enhancing teachers' educational and teaching levels, advancing educational reform, and improving talent cultivation quality. He expressed his high expectations for all teachers and outlined specific requirements for the university's teacher-related work.
Firstly, teachers should remain committed to their educational mission, integrating the spirit of educators into daily teaching and team building. Secondly, they should strengthen the empowerment of digital intelligence. The OUC system should fully leverage the open university's inherent strengths and natural advantages in integrating digital and intelligent technology with educational and teaching practices, build a high-quality "dual-competence" teacher team, and take the lead in the whole-process reform of teaching empowered by digital and intelligent technology. Thirdly, the university should expedite the formulation of a teacher team building plan to drive the high-quality development of the entire teaching system and better fulfil its role in building a leading country in education and fostering a learning society. He hoped that all participants would promote the spirit of dedication and continuous improvement, establish the ambition of "working diligently in education and contributing to a strong nation," enhance their digital teaching abilities, and make contributions for the construction of a leading country in education and a society and nation of learning.
The competition featured two stages: preliminary and finals. The preliminary stage, organised by each school, saw 22 teachers selected through multiple rounds of rigorous selection to advance to the finals. The finals consisted of two parts: a teaching design and a live teaching demonstration. Participants showcased their solid professional and digital abilities, vividly reflecting the enterprising and excellence-pursuing spirit of OUC teachers.
Seven experts from Renmin University of China, Beijing Normal University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Central University of Finance and Economics, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing Forestry University, and University of Science and Technology Beijing served as judges. They highly praised the participants' performances and provided precise and targeted feedback. Through this competition, teachers gained deeper insights into teaching and education, and they are expected to integrate what they learned into daily practice, continuously improve their teaching abilities, and contribute more to the high-quality development of the university's educational cause and the construction of a leading country in education.
Contributed by Department of Student Affairs and Teacher Development