In order to further advance the experimental work of community education in the open university system, actively exploring the teaching model and ways of cooperating and sharing, and vigorously promoting the empirical study of community education in our country, on November 19-20, 2014, a work seminar of the Open University of China (OUC) Community Education Experiment Centre (Base) was held in Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
On November 5, 2014, the 2nd Phase Co-Construction Work Meeting of the Cloud Classroom of The Open University of China (OUC) was held in Beijing, which marks full launch of the 2nd phase construction of the Cloud Classroom. In 2013 the OUC constructed the first 63 Cloud Classrooms on the western frontiers and in the economic developing areas covering over 40 prefecture-level cities of Xinjiang, Tibet, Qinghai, Gansu, Guangxi and Guizhou, which facilitated greatly the carrying out of distance teaching, and brought high quality educational resources into the reach of students.
On November 4, 2014, the national opening ceremony of the Activity Week of Lifelong Learning for All, co-hosted by the Department of Vocational and Adult Education of the Ministry of Education (MOE), the China National Commission for UNESCO, and the China Adult Education Association, was held in Yuzhong District of Chongqing.
On November 13, 2014, The Open University of China (OUC) and the TRAMPIL Foundation of Indonesia signed a memorandum of understanding on future cooperation in Beijing. Both parties expect to carry out wide ranging cooperation in the training of local teachers teaching Chinese in Indonesia, in order to help them improve their Chinese teaching ability, information technology and multi-media skills, familiarize themselves with blended teaching models that integrate distance teaching with offline teaching, and to bring mixed teaching models and distance teaching resources into the primary and secondary schools in Indonesia.
From October 27 to November 6, 2014, the OUC’s No. 1406 Senior Workshop for Backbone Teachers was held in Beijing. The workshop lasted for two weeks and marked the first time that the “One College Student Per Village” plan carried out training for professional backbone teachers in the system of the Open University of China (OUC). A total of 48 teachers from 27 provincial schools and teaching locations within the “One College Student Per Village” plan took part in the course and completed their study.
At the 2014 Annual Nationwide Reading Meeting held at Hunan Library from November 11-13, the thesis “A Practical Exploration of Reading Promotion Activities for Rural Adolescents” submitted by Zhang Hongli from the library of The Open University of China (OUC) stood out from 402 theses sent by 361 libraries and 14 publishing houses and bookstores nationally and won the first prize.
Tea Culture Performance Art Team of Fujian RTVU made an excellent team "debut" recently at the 2014 Second Fuzhou Tea Industry Expo, winning second prize in the group tea contest, Creativity Award, and Best Tea Seat Design Award. Chen Ye also took home the Award for Best Individual Tea Art.
On November 4, 2014, online training for large pillar enterprises of Guangdong Province (dqy.gdlll.cn) went online at the Open University of Guangdong.
Special training for large pillar enterprises of Guangdong Province is a platform affiliated with the Guangdong lifelong learning network (www.gdlll.cn). Currently, there are 54 hours of subject courses available online for the first phase, including business management, intellectual property, technical standards, and more.