Education and teaching reform is a current focus of society. Teachers are a critical factor in teaching reform. We must study learners, optimise teaching and learning environments, adjust teaching goals, reform teaching content and improve curriculum systems, develop high quality online courses, build a networked teaching team, provide a flexible and convenient learning style, exercise professional spirit, knowledge, and ability to enhance the conscientiousness of curriculum reform, and improve course construction, as well as operation and innovation ability.
From 7-8th September 2017, the 7th OUJ-OUC-KNOU International Seminar was held at the Open University of Japan (OUJ).
"The key to judging whether a place is well-off or not lies in its residents.” In Gansu province, one of the main battle fields of poverty alleviation in China, the cost of poverty reduction for the remaining residents below the poverty line is getting higher and poverty relieving work is getting more difficult.
On 20th July 2016, the OUC and McDonald's China announced their strategic cooperation plan, launching the "Plan for Realising the University Dreams of McDonald’s Employees", an academic education programme for McDonald's staff.
At GAC MOTOR, the "Realising Dreams of Further Education" service station set up by the OUC Guangzhou branch has become a place of relaxation for the staff. The service station was set up in November 2016 and includes an optional course learning consultation area, a learning experience area, and a reading area.
Editor’s Note: In July, 2012, the Open University of China (OUC) was inaugurated on the basis of the China Central Radio and Television University. For 5 years, the OUC has always been adhering to its unique mission and has made active explorations around the "1314 projects" and new contributions to promote equality in learning and the formation of a society for all people to learn and lifelong learning, which has won wide recognition from the society.
The ICDE (International Council for Open and Distance Education) Leadership Summit and ICDE-UNESCO (the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation) Leadership Forum were held from 22-24th May, 2017 in Nancy, France and the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris, respectively. A delegation of five people from the OUC, led by vice president Qi Yanwei, attended the conferences.
Introduction
Changes in the economy, society, higher education, and technologies have influenced open universities significantly.