A group of retired senior leaders of the Ministry of Education (MOE) including Zhang Xiaowen, Liu Bin, Wang Mingda, Tian Shulan, and Zhu Xinjun came to visit the OUC on the morning of 12 June 2014.

Accompanied by Yang Zhijian, President of the OUC, Li Ling, Vice President of the OUC, and Liu Chen, the Assistant to the President, the team of old cadres appreciated “The OUC Rhapsody” and visited the school history exhibition with the theme “Deep Integration of Information Technology and Education — From RTVU to the OUC”.

They also experienced tie-ins with the cloud classrooms in such places as Nanhai RTVU, inspected the digital learning resources and test monitoring system, watched a 3D printing demonstration, and got updates on the situation of Chinese language teaching and the credit bank. 

At the symposium, Yang Zhijian introduced the construction, education, and teaching situation of the OUC. The senior leaders remarked that in recent years the OUC has been developing very fast. It had positively adapted to modern life and the construction of a nationwide learning society, dared to undertake social responsibility, insisted on simultaneously promoting degree education and non-degree education, pushed forward deep integration of information technology and education, and gained great achievements in the reform of teaching and training methods. They showed that, considering the OUC’s contributions to the distance education field, they would suggest that the government and administrative departments of education put emphasis and give enough support for OUC's position and role in building a lifelong learning society, increasing investment contributions, and creating a better environment for its development. The senior leaders also suggested that the university should increase its publicity to the outside world, publicize the university’s features, characteristics, and achievements, working to get recognition and support from the government, colleges, and all sectors of society.  

Visiting school history exhibition of the OUC

Browsing e-books 

Experiencing information collection system 

Watching digital learning resources

Appreciation of “The OUC Rhapsody”

Experiencing cloud classroom

Watching 3D printing demonstration

Understanding Chinese language teaching situation

By Yu Minsheng, the OUC (Photograph: Yu Zhangli, Yu Minsheng)