The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has posed an unprecedented global challenge. Nearly 1.2 billion students in over 160 countries and regions have had to suspend their studies to some extent.
A ceremony to sign a Memorandum of In-depth Strategic Cooperation between the Open University of China (OUC) and Beijing Radio and Television (BRTV) was held in Beijing on the morning of 9 July 2021.
On 8 July 2021, Professor Shahbaz Khan, the new Resident Representative in the Beijing office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in China, visited the Open University of China (OUC) with his delegation.
A five-half-day intensive teacher-training workshop, jointly held by the Open University of China (OUC) and the Open University in the UK (OUUK), and the first of its kind, came to a successful end recently. 30 OUC teachers participated in the positive, diligent and thoughtful manner of OUC faculty.
In order to celebrate the centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), the Open University of China (OUC) and Zhongtuyunchuang Smart Technology (Beijing), a subsidiary of China National Publications Import & Export Group (CNPIEC), have jointly launched "Lectures on Red Current and Starlight", a series of party-history lectures presented via immersive virtual reality and targeting national ideological and political education.
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China, the Party Committee, Discipline-inspection Commission, and Trade Union organisations directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE) held an exhibition of excellent works of calligraphy, painting and photography, and invited experts to review the exhibits.
Chen Yawei is a full-time teacher in the Faculty of Economics and Management of Jiangxi Open University (Jiangxi OU).
On 3 June 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) held a ceremony to launch its ideological and political education centre for teachers and students at Jinggangshan University.