The Open University of China issued a notice (OUC [2015] No. 2) declaring the results of an essay activity with the themes of "My Teaching Story" and "My Learning Story." For the theme "My Learning Story," three essays were awarded first prize, five awarded second prize, ten awarded third prize, and ten awarded the prize of excellence.
The first microfilm produced by Gansu Radio and Television University (Gansu RTVU)focusing on higher education for the disabled, called “A Wing of the Heart”, recently won awards for promotion activities and selected as an original network-based audio-visual programme for the "2015 China Dream," which is part of the content construction project supporting network-based audio-visual programmes of the State Administration of Press, Publication, Radio, Film and Television (SAPPRFT). The film is currently being aired on all of the major video broadcasting platforms across the country.
On December 3-4, 2015, the OUC's Learning Resources Development & Library Working Seminar was held in Beijing. The seminar focused on how to promote both learning resources development and their application, centred around each course and guided by the demands of the learners.
On November 25, 2015, the first mobile learning course through the Open University of China (OUC), the Special Subject of Modern Chinese Language, was examined and approved by an expert panel. The expert panel included researcher Guo Longsheng, from the Ministry of Education’s Institute of Applied Linguistics, Professor Zhang Fumei, from Langfang RTVU, Xu Cheng, Assistant Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University, and Associate Professor Xu Changwei, from the OUC.
On December 5, 2015, Xinjiang School for the Disabled, under the Open University of China(OUC), held a graduation ceremony for its first batch of students. Member of the Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Xinjiang Autonomous Region, and Vice Chairman of the Region,Erkin Twainiaz,attended the meeting and made an important speech.
The OUC Academic Degree Evaluation Committee met in Beijing on December 2-3, 2015. It was the first plenary meeting since the OUC Academic Degree Evaluation Committee was founded in September 2013, and also the first academic degree granting working conference since the OUC was authorized to grant bachelor degrees.
There is a group of people that live and work in the highest areas of the world, where the oxygen level is only 65% of that of plain areas. They have to travel over mountains and rivers for more than 5kilo meters on foot each day to get to work. Who are they? They are the teachers in primary and secondary schools in the Tibetan region. Despite their efforts, due to a lack of educational resources, the region has no access to new technologies so the professional qualities of these teachers improve very slowly.
On the morning of November 23, 2015, an event marking the OUC’s donation of 3D printing equipment to Tibet’s Changdu Prefecture and the conclusion of the Guidance Conference on Changdu’s "Four Modernizations" (video conference) was held in the OUC’s cloud classroom.