A virtual-teaching research office for higher education has been established by the Computer Assisted English Language Learning programme in response to the call of the Ministry of Education to implement the educational reforms laid out in the 14th Five-Year Plan, and to accelerate the construction of the office in order to advance teaching reforms at the Open University of China (OUC).

In order to further implement the OUC Comprehensive Reform Plan and Opinions on Enhancing Education at the OUC, promote integrated practice, bachelor-degree applications, and the quality of education, the Faculty of Agroforestry and Medicine (Rural Revitalisation College) of the Open University of China (OUC) held a workshop for undergraduate Agriculture and Medicine majors on 23 and 24 June 2022.

On 23 June 2022, the Open University of China (OUC) held a video meeting on the final-examination work for spring 2022. Onsite attendees included Li Song, OUC vice president; Gu Xiaohua and Jin Yan, director and deputy director of the OUC Academic Affairs Department; Men Hailong, vice dean of the OUC Experimental School; and other personnel from the department and school.

The Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Open University of China (OUC) held a seminar titled "Smart-teaching Forum for Regional Teacher Development and AI-empowered Smart English-language Teaching Reform" on 21 June 2022, the 10th anniversary of the university.

On 10 June 2022, in order to implement the work plan of the Third Academic Committee of the Open University of China (OUC), and enhance teaching and research, the Economics sub-committee of the OUC Academic Committee held an online academic forum titled Seeking Common Prosperity with the Aid of Small and Micro Finance: the Case of Taizhou.

The Open University of China (OUC) held a lesson plan presentation training session for backbone English teachers on 16 June 2022. One hundred and ninety-eight teachers within the OUC system participated in the training and thirteen teacher representatives gave lesson plan presentations.

Editor’s notes: Recently, the Open University of China (OUC) held a meeting to demonstrate the practical achievements of education and teaching reform.

The Credit Bank of the Open University of China (OUC) held a seminar titled “Studying and Implementing the New Vocational Education Law and Promoting High-quality Development of the Credit Bank” on the afternoon of 8 June 2022.

On the afternoon of 8 June 2022, the Open University of China (OUC) and the Higher Education Teaching-evaluation Centre of the Ministry of Education (MOE) held a meeting to train evaluators and launched spring teaching-quality evaluation of selected branches.

On the afternoon of 1 June 2022, the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Open University of China (OUC) held a seminar to prepare the AI-empowered English smart teaching reform project via video link. Forty-two teachers to join the teaching reform pilot project from the OUC headquarters and nine branches took part in the event.