Beijing, 16 December 2025 - The Open University of China (OUC) held a summary-review exhibition and exchange activity for its model course and resource incubation projects. The initiative is designed to fully implement the "Implementation Opinions on the Comprehensive Reform of Education and Teaching in Open Universities through Digital Intelligence Empowerment and Integrated Coordination", aiming to advance the "101 Plan" of open education. The event was attended by OUC President WANG Qiming, Vice Presidents LI Song and FAN Xianrui, LIU Xuanxuan and XU Mingjun. Over 200 participants from the headquarters academic, research, and teaching management departments, as well as representatives from university affiliated enterprises, attended the meeting.
President WANG Qiming emphasised that OUC should focus on addressing the key missions of "building a leading country in education and a learning society." He called for a university-wide effort to clarify the development position of open education, promote its integrated and high-quality development, and implement the open education "101 Plan." He urged teachers to use this plan as a key initiative, persist in innovative characteristics, lead with advanced concepts, and focus on professional platforms to drive content reconstruction, methodological innovation, and teaching evaluation reform. Stressing the importance of teachers and the need to build brand confidence, he outlined that the goal is to build a "main platform" and "overpass" that meet the lifelong learning needs of all citizens with premium resources, cutting-edge technology and first-class services.
Vice President LI Song pointed out that using course reform as an entry point to solve major talent cultivation issues is key to implementing the "101 Plan" and advancing the high-quality development of open universities. He called for a problem-oriented approach and put forward five requirements: adhere to the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education; meet adult learners' needs through demand-based teaching; empower course development and teaching reform with digital intelligence; integrate efforts to advance course reform; and explore a whole-process, intelligent and personalised course evaluation system.
Project leaders from 10 schools presented the progress of AI-empowered courses, textbooks, teaching staff, practice sessions and assessment methods. Their reports highlighted OUC’s exploration in course building centred on job competence, content reconstruction for teaching materials, digital textbook innovation, teacher-student-machine collaborative teaching, blended practical teaching, and competency-oriented and task-driven evaluation reform. These showcase OUC’s progressive efforts in open education resource building for the digital-intelligent era.
Moving forward, OUC will take advantage of "101 Plan" to strengthen coordination and summarise outcomes. It aims to support high-quality open education development with top tier course resources. This will lay a solid foundation for serving lifelong learning, building a learning society, and delivering open education to meet the needs of the people.
By Learning Resources Department