In face of the severe outbreak of COVID-19, Chinese people nationwide are working hard to fight against the spread of COVID-19. The Open University of China (OUC) has actively responded to the state’s call to “offer online learning after the postponement of the spring semester” and is proving a large number of quality online courses to the public for free.
Editor's notes: A photography contest titled "Moving Moments" at the Open University of China (OUC) ended recently, with 10 first prizes, 20 second prizes, 30 third prizes and 51 awards of excellence being given. The works in this exhibit record all different kinds of important moments, transmit positive energy, and reflect the way OUC students carefully observe life and actively serve society. The award-winning works will be published on the OUC portal.
Editor's notes: A photography contest titled "Moving Moments" at the Open University of China (OUC) ended recently, with 10 first prizes, 20 second prizes, 30 third prizes and 51 awards of excellence being given. The works in this exhibit record all different kinds of important moments, transmit positive energy, and reflect the way OUC students carefully observe life and actively serve society. The award-winning works will be published on the OUC portal.
Editor's notes: A photography contest titled "Moving Moments" at the Open University of China (OUC) ended recently, with 10 first prizes, 20 second prizes, 30 third prizes and 51 awards of excellence being given. The works in this exhibit record all different kinds of important moments, transmit positive energy, and reflect the way OUC students carefully observe life and actively serve society. The award-winning works will be published on the OUC portal.
On 8 January 2020, the Institute of Educational Technology of the Open University of UK and the National Institute for Digital Learning (NIDL) of Dublin City University jointly released the eighth report on innovative pedagogy, "Innovative Pedagogy 2020” (link to original file: https://iet.open.ac.uk/file/innovating-pedagogy-2020.pdf).
“It is time that we had uncommon schools that we did not leave off our education when we begin to be men and women. It is time that villages were universities…” This is the beautiful vision for education described by Henry David Thoreau in his book Walden.
Beijing, 15 January 2020 (Xinhua News Agency) - Sun Chunlan, a member of the Standing Committee of the 19th CPC Central Committee Political Bureau and Vice Premier of the State Council, underlined during her survey of the Open University of China (OUC) on 15 January that General Secretary Xi Jinping’s important instructions on vocational education should be further implemented and that the decisions and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the State Council to deepen vocational education reform, to optimise the structure of highly skilled professionals, and to offer support for high quality economic and social development should be earnestly put in place.
2019 marked the 70th anniversary of new China as well as the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Open University of China (OUC).