The review committee for the outstanding graduates of the Open University of China (OUC) recently reviewed the candidates for the "2014 Class of Outstanding Graduates of the OUC" and publicly announced the final list of award winners. 438 students were announced as part of the"2014 Class of Outstanding Graduates of the OUC".
On June 14th, 2015, a small symposium on the internationalization of academic journals was held at the publishing house of Distance Education in China.
Ancient Chinese society was dominated by a patriarchal clan system, in which the blood relationship was regarded as the most important social connection. Therefore the sense of a clan is deeply rooted in the minds of ancient Chinese people, and was actually a tightly united group. However nowadays this concept has quite faded away. In this lecture we will get to know some ideas about how a Chinese clan is defined and the scope it covers.
With the aim of further exploring the model and working mechanism of community education, and vigorously advancing the construction of experiment centres (bases) for community education, the 2015 National Community Education Seminar of the Ministry of Education (MOE) Research and Training Centre for Community Education (hereafter shortened to “the Centre”) convened in Changchun, Jilin Province from June 10–11.
During the selection of "Outstanding Innovation Cases" among units directly under the Ministry of Education (MOE), the “ OUC Micro-Lectures” online course construction project, combining “micro-lecture, online application systems, and teaching staff training”, was selected as an outstanding innovative case. The “OUC Micro-Lectures” project was built by the Digital Learning Resources Centre (DLRC) of the Open University of China (OUC).
On March 4th,2015, the National Publication Foundation unveiled the list of projects chosen to receive funding in 2015, and the project “Lectures on Science Popularization by 100 Academicians and Experts” from Multimedia Press, The Open University of China (OUC), was among those chosen. The National Publication Foundation is the third largest fund set up by the state, following the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the National Social Sciences Fund. It mainly subsidizes the publishing of books and a few electronic audio-visual products with cultural inheritance and preservation value.
The iPad version of “Your Hand Drawing” application software (hereinafter referred to as “Your Hand Drawing App”) developed by the Open University of China (OUC) was formally launched recently at Apple’s app store. From January 2015 on, students of the OUC and the general public will be able to download this professional graphics software for free via their personal app store account and use it to practice painting and drawing.
The “OUC Open Forum” video courses and the series "Science and China: Lectures by Academicians and Experts” produced by the Open University of China (OUC) were aired on China Education Television Channel 1 (CETV-1) from March 7, 2015 and on CETV Air Classroom Channel from March 9, 2015, respectively.