“Undoubtedly, this is very beneficial for the learners!”Vice President of the Open University of China(OUC), Li Linshu,could not contain his excitement upon seeing that individual learning accounts,a credit accumulation system, continuing education, and lifelong learning channels were written into the“Thirteenth Five－Year Plan.”
According to the spirit of the document “Notice on Carrying Out Teaching Inspection for Open Education in 2015” (OUC Evaluation, No. 4 ,2015) and based on the comprehensive self-examination recently organized by the OUC’s Experimental School in its affiliated units, from November 6th to 18th, 2015, Vice Presidents of the OUC Li Ling and Yan Bing led a team to conduct field teaching examination and research for Nanhai Experimental School, Taiyuan Experimental School, and Wantong Auto Learning Centre.
According to the latest 2015 data supplied by Tsinghua University’s China Social Science Literature Evaluation and Research Centre (National Knowledge Infrastructure), the compound impact factor of Zhejiang RTVU’s Journal of Distance Education has reached as high as 5.740, and its general impact factor 4.282, rising to the first place among educational journals, and realizing an historical achievement.
Since October 2015, an art activity has swept all over the students in Anhui provincial Radio and TV University (RTVU) system -- Anhui RTVU’s First Campus Online Singer Competition is being carried out enthusiastically with a theme of“Sing at the Rhythm of Youth and Sing out the RTVU’s Dream”. As of now, the hits on the activity website have surpassed 500,000.
Li Jiqiang, President of the Jianghan Branch School of Wuhan Radio and TV University (RTVU) is a person who "dares to eat crabs" (someone who dares to try new things). In Wuhan, no one had tried to offer degree education for the disabled using modern education information technologies, but with his years of experience in distance education, Li Jiqiang thought he should give it a try.
On November 13, 2015, Fujian Province’s first session of its “Modern Young Farmer” training class undertaken by Fujian RTVU kicked off.
Recently, 363 workers from Guangdong Esquel Textile Co., Ltd. stepped onto the campus of the Open University of China (OUC)’s Guangzhou Branch and became beneficiaries of the OUC’s Assistance Plan, a new model of education and training.
On November 15-17, 2015, MOE Research and Training Centre for Community Education (hereinafter referred to as the Centre) held a seminar on promoting the community education teaching model and construction of the community education experiment centre (base) in Xiamen.