A volume entitled Beyond Distance Education: Cutting-Edge Perspectives on the Future of Global Open Universities, with Jing Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the Open University of China (OUC), as chief editor, has been published and delivered by the OUC Press to global authors and received unanimous recognition and favourable comments.
Recently, the Department of Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education (MOE) announced a list of publications selected from university presses around the country in 2021. China Spirit, which was edited and produced by the Multimedia Press of the Publishing & Media Group of the Open University of China (OUC), was successfully selected for the list.
Recently, A Choice of History: Marxism and the Birth of the CPC, a Party history featured film edited and produced by the Multimedia Press under the Publishing & Media Group of the Open University of China (OUC), was successfully included in the list of topics for key publications in 2021 announced by the General Office of the Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.
The Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC) participated in the 7th China International Internet Plus College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition on behalf of the OUC headquarters, bringing back nine 1st-, ten 2nd -, and five 3rd – place awards in the vocational-education competition in Beijing.
On the morning of 18 July 2021, Shandong Open University (Shandong OU) held a graduation ceremony at the university’s high-tech campus for grassroots cadres in degree programmes. 4,398 rural and urban cadres obtained certificates for having completed their studies.
From 13-15 July 2021, the Department of Student Affairs and Teacher Development of the Open University of China (OUC), together with the Faculty of Science and Engineering, sent 30 OUC teachers of computer, mechanical, and electrical engineering to tour Anhui Xinhua Education Group, aiming to implement the requirements of the OUC Comprehensive Reform Plan on the construction of teaching teams, speed up development of teachers with "double qualifications", and promote integration with enterprises, by studying the operations and management of the Group.
On 14 July 2021, Jing Degang, secretary of the Party Committee and president of the Open University of China (OUC), unveiled a plaque marking the Centre for Ideological and Political Education at Yanan Open University.
To grasp the new situation for the teaching of economic management in open education, study the problems Economics and Management majors face, explore new approaches to teaching reform, and further implement the fundamental task of cultivating morality through education, the Faculty of Economics and Management of the Open University of China (OUC) hosted a special research activity from 31 May to 10 June, 2021.