From 20-22 December 2019, a meeting to summarise the second batch of pilot programs for multimodal teaching reform in Public English at the Open University of China (OUC), as well as a work meeting for the central teaching and research group of English majors and public English were held in Baoding City, Hebei Province. Yang Xiaotang, vice president of the OUC, and the directors responsible for teaching in relevant branches attended the meeting, which was presided over by Liu Zhanrong, director of the Faculty of International Languages and Cultures.
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 28 November, 2019, guided by the Coordinating Office of the National Reading Activity Organisation, the 2019 National Reading Annual Conference of the National Publishing and Library Field, sponsored by the Library Society of China (LSC), the Taofen Foundation, and other organisations, was held in Guangyuan City, Sichuan Province. The OUC’s assistance in building the OUC “Taofen” library, part of its contribution to national poverty eradication, was recognised there, and a speech was given by an OUC representative.
A five-member delegation from the Open University of China (OUC) visited the headquarters of Universidad a Distancia de Madrid (UDIMA) and its Barcelona campus from 10-11 December 2019, to discuss cooperation on the construction of football education courses and preliminary preparations for the joint construction of an online Confucius Institute on the Internet, and to learn about the experiences of UDIMA’s regional teaching centre in teaching management and curriculum resource construction.
From 12-13 December 2019, 15 teachers and students from Sukhothai Thammathirat Open University (STOU) paid a two-day cultural exchange visit to the OUC. The delegation was led by executive vice president of STOU, associate professor Thapanat Prom-In, along with four teachers and 10 students from the Faculty of Arts, the School of Management, the School of Law, the School of Human Ecology, and the School of Politics.
From 1-8 December 2019, a delegation of five members of the Open University of China (OUC) led by Zhang Luanjiao, head of the Department of Student Affairs and Teacher Development, visited Zambia and Botswana at the invitation of Sino-Zam Vocational College of Science and Technology and Botswana Open University to learn about the operation of the OUC Learning Centre in Zambia and to investigate future cooperation with Botswana Open University.
A few days ago, Appreciation and Creation of Traditional Chinese Landscape Paintings & Moodle Platform, a China National Arts Fund communication, exchange, and promotion project applied for by the Open University of China (OUC) in 2017, was successfully checked and accepted.
From 11-13 December 2019, the Open University of China (OUC) held the Meeting on Ideological and Political Courses and Core Online Teaching Team in Beijing.