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.
In March 2016, the construction of a virtual (panoramic) studio at Bingtuan Radio and Television University (Bingtuan RTVU), the first of its kind in this RTVU, and the construction of which was aided by the Open University of China (OUC), was completed and is awaiting final inspection by the OUC before being put into use.
On March 20 2016, a five-person delegation headed by Chen Songbai, President of Taiwan Open University, paid a visit to Fujian RTVU. Ma Guofang and Xia Liangyu, Vice Presidents of Fujian RTVU, met the delegation and signed a Letter of Intent on Cooperation and an Agreement of Cooperation to nail down details of their cooperation in the aspects of school running and development, academic exchange and research, personnel training etc., whilst inaugurating the “Cross-Strait Economy and Culture Research Centre”.
Extraordinary deeds by excellent disabled students have been emerging from the OUC's system of education for the disabled constantly in recent years. Through their struggle and hard work, they vividly demonstrate the essence of core socialist values, fully display the strong-willed spiritual outlook of disabled students who ceaselessly pursue learning and maintain an inspiring spirit in pursuit of their dreams.
Extraordinary deeds by excellent disabled students have been emerging from the OUC's system of education for the disabled constantly in recent years. Through their struggle and hard work, they vividly demonstrate the essence of core socialist values, fully display the strong-willed spiritual outlook of disabled students who ceaselessly pursue learning and maintain an inspiring spirit in pursuit of their dreams.