On 29 October 2018, a seminar with the theme of "Deepening the Construction of Key Law Majors and Improving the Capacity and Quality of the Teaching Team" was held for backbone teachers from the law major at the Open University of China (OUC).

The seminar was hosted by the OUC Department of Student Work and Teacher Development and sponsored by the Faculty of Political Science and Law. Sixty-nine members of the team responsible for law teaching and backbone teachers from the OUC’s 31 branches participated in the seminar.

At the opening ceremony, Liu Jingduo, director of the OUC Faculty of Political Science and Law, said that, under the guidance of the "Six-Network Integration" model, the headquarter's teaching departments should coordinate the online teaching team with top-level design, close organisational structure, and clear division of functions, so as to ensure the actual occurrence of learning in the large-scale online teaching process. They should also provide timely, thoughtful, accurate, and high-quality learning support services to ensure the construction of majors, course teaching level, and personnel training quality.

During the seminar, the participants took part in special reports, lectures, and group discussions. Professor Shi Limei from Beijing Normal University, Professor Long Yifei and Professor Ye Chuanxing from Renmin University of China, Professor Zhang Baogui from Beijing Union University, Professor Yu Lingyun from Tsinghua University, and Professor Qi Huan from China University of Political Science and Law gave special lectures on hot topics in the law major from the perspective of their various departments. The contents of the lectures are closely related to changes in the law in China and abroad, which helped to equip the students with cutting edge knowledge and perspectives from recent research. Ye Zhihong, director of the OUC Department of Academic Affairs, gave a special report on the construction and reform of the law major of the OUC. He systematically discussed the current difficulties in and countermeasures for the construction of the law major and put forward suggestions for the development of the law major from the perspective of a management department. The participants also discussed the construction of key law majors and specialised courses in legal affairs and the development of postgraduate education in law.

From the feedback left in the learning manuals and group discussion reports, it is clear to see that the participants believe that the training class was reasonable and rich in content, and that the lectures given by the experts provided them with new ideas and which will play a role in promoting the future legal teaching and scientific research work.

Written by Hu Xiaoyu, photo by Tian Yuan, OUC