With the joint efforts of OUC headquarters, OUC branches, local colleges, and study centres, the OUC's Cloud Classroom Project Phase II has been completed, and the cloud classroom has been officially put into use.
Most people don’t want to sit in the classroom and learn at the weekend. How about if the class was given by a beautiful tea specialist in an elegant tea dress, who swirls by with a kettle, serves fragrant tea, and gives an introduction in a soft and gentle voice? Would you be interested then?
Between April 4 and 8, 2016, the 7th WIETE (World Institute for Engineering and Technology Education) Annual Conference on Engineering and Technology Education, and the 4th Mediterranean Seminar on Engineering and Technology Education, were held at the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus in Athens, Hellas, Greece.
On April 9 & 10, 2016, Pan’an Branch, Zhejiang RTVU organized a series of teaching practice activities at Jiusuier Ecological Planting Garden in Tiantai County, Siwu Chuangke Ecological and Agricultural Venture Garden, and Hou’an Village for over 40 students in the fall of 2014 class of the Tourism Agriculture programme.
From April 8 to 10, 2016, the Chinese Language Centre of the Open University of China (OUC) kicked off its first session of 2016 professional competence training for international Chinese teaching instructors. The training gave full play to the advantages of distance open education, with the three-day courses all carried out online and offline simultaneously. 32 teachers from a total of 11 domestic Radio and Television Universities (RTVUs) and other social institutions participated in the training.
In the morning of April 8, 2016, a symposium on supporting the targeted poverty alleviation as part of the “Rural College Students Training Programme” and a launch ceremony for a pilot mobile learning scheme in Hunan province was held at the Radio and Television University (RTVU) in Xiangxi autonomous prefecture.
In March 2016, three topics from the Open University of China’s (OUC) Multimedia Press were included in a list of projects selected to be funded by the 2016 Annual National Publication Foundation, as announced by the National Publication Foundation Planning and Management Committee.
Since beginning work as a tutor at the OUC, I have instructed a huge number of students, and I still remember nearly all of their learning stories. However, the one that impressed me most was the story of a father and son who both majored in finance in the junior college class of Fall 2013. This father and son left me with an unforgettable, lasting impression.