In order to promote the various education-reform initiatives currently underway at the OUC, its Faculty of Education held a forum, the first of its kind, on 23 December 2021, and invited discipline leaders and course leaders to discuss the topic in relation to majors, curriculum-resource construction, curriculum-evaluation design, team teaching, and other areas. Li Song, OUC vice president, delivered a speech, and the forum was chaired by Zhang Xia, vice dean of the Faculty of Education.
In order to quickly launch its "One Network and One Platform", on 21 December 2021 the Open University of China (OUC) held a workshop on its use for all teachers. Vice president Fan Xianrui delivered a speech, while Yuan Yaxing, director of the Information Technology Department, presided. The event was attended by more than 150 personnel from the Information Technology Department, representatives of the project contractors, and OUC teaching departments.
With the rapid development of online education, it is an important and urgent task to improve the online education and teaching ability of college teachers. It is of great significance to deepen research in terms of implementing the fundamental task of fostering virtue through education, improving college teachers’ professional online teaching ability, establishing high-quality teaching teams in colleges and universities, and promoting the quality improvement of education and teaching in institutions of higher education.
On 23 December, the Meeting of the Open University of China (OUC) to Advance Reform and Development in 2021 was convened in Beijing. The purpose of the meeting was to study and implement the guiding principles of the fifth and sixth Plenary Sessions of the 19th Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), to investigate and deploy key tasks for 2022, and to accelerate the construction of world-class open universities with Chinese characteristics for high-quality development.
On 23 December, the Open University of China (OUC) held a video conference on the final examinations of the 2021 autumn semester.
On 22 December 2021, a two-person delegation led by Ma Bo, vice president of Cerwise Education Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd. (or CERNET Education) visited the Open University of China (OUC) to discuss provision of international higher education. Wang Yongfeng and Shi Yunzhi of the OUC’s International and Information Technology departments met with the delegation.
The Open University of China (OUC), on 22 December 2021, held a meeting on spring 2022 enrolment. The meeting was conducted by video link from the Wukesong campus of the OUC.
The 31st annual conference of the Committee of Adult Higher Education in Foreign Languages Majors of China Adult Education Association (CAEA) was held at the Open University of China (OUC) on 16 December 2021.