The week from 14-20 September 2020 saw a national-level publicity campaign promoting network security. As an active response to the event, the Open University of China (OUC) held its own network security week on the theme of "Protecting Network Security for the People and by Relying on the People.
The Open University of China (OUC) held a mid-term exchange meeting for the third round of pilot programmes of multimodal teaching reform in public English in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, from 17 to 18 September 2020.
The opening ceremony of the School of Traditional Chinese Medicine (School of TCM) at the Qingdao branch of the Open University of China (OUC) was held on 19 August, 2020. The school is a new type of open-education school for training health-management personnel to meet health-industry needs and those of an aging society. It is accessible to anyone and aims to combine theory with practice, relying on the university's extensive resources and the strength of its health-management teaching team.
Recently, the Qingdao Branch of the Open University of China (OUC), the Qingdao division of Beijing Electric Vehicles (BJEV) (a subsidiary of Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC)),and Qingdao Guoxuan Battery held a ceremony at Qingdao BJEV to sign a university-business cooperation agreement, and unveil a new programme in which the Qingdao Branch and the two enterprises would combine strengths and integrate resources,
Recently, the Open University of China (OUC) project, "Quality Lectures by Famous Teachers", launched another course, "Open Discussion of Grain and Food Safety", open to learners from both inside and outside the OUC system. Experts from China Agricultural University (CAU) and well-known agricultural enterprises have been invited to lecture in it.
The “A Glimpse of Teachers” Short Video Collection Activity 2020, organised by the Department of Teachers Affairs of the Ministry of Education (MOE) in cooperation with China Education Television, China Teacher Development Foundation, and China Education Development Foundation, ended recently, having collected nearly 3,000 works.
After the deliberation and approval of its leading Party group, the Ministry of Education released the OUC Comprehensive Reform Plan on 31 August 2020. The plan includes background, guiding principles and overall thought, specific tasks, and guarantee measures, as well as organisation and implementation. The full text reads as follows.
Having received approval from the Shandong Provincial Education Department to set up a Community Education Centre in Shandong and carry out pilot programmes for educating older adults in the province, the Shandong Branch of the Open University of China (OUC) has adopted measures to help the construction of continuing education there