On April 11, Fang Qing, deputy to the 11th and 12th National People’s Congresses (NPC) and famous alumna of Jinhua RTVU, and the President of the Experimental Primary School of Jindong District of Jinhua City, were invited for a return visit to her alma mater Jinhua RTVU to recount her “love practice” as an educator to the assembled teachers.
On April 16, the opening ceremony for the first batch of students admitted to the School for the Disabled of Hebei Radio and TV University (Hebei RTVU) was held in Hebei Provincial Disabled Persons’ Federation (Hebei PDPF), which marked a fresh start for secondary vocational education for the disabled in the province.
On April 17, the 2014 TCSOL (short for “Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages”) Training of the Open University of China (the OUC) was officially launched in Wukesong distance teaching building. The first session of this training lasted six days, and was attended by almost 30 backbone teachers and teaching administrative staff from the Radio and TV Universities (RTVUs) of Heilongjiang, Jilin, Yunnan, Zhejiang, Chengdu, Gansu and other provinces, as well as other universities and colleges, many of whom had attended the 2013 OUC TCSOL Training.
In April 18, 2014, the discussion meeting of the Open University of China’s (OUC) “new industrial workers’ development and training assistance project” scheme was held in Xi’an. 50 people attended the meeting, including university leaders, directors of relevant departments, experts and professors from the OUC and several local Radio and TV Universities (RTVUs).
After three years of investigation and demonstrations, the Open University of China (the OUC) recently completed its examination and approved the professional project and development scheme for the junior college “Senior Services and Management” programme.
The 28th Annual Conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities, known as AAOU, was convened in Hong Kong on 28-31 October 2014. The conference was organized by the Open University of Hong Kong (OUHK) with the theme of “Advancing Open and Distance Learning (ODL): Research and Practices”. More than 200 representatives from 17 countries and areas took part in this conference. Vice President Shaogang Zhang of the Open University of China (OUC) led a team of nine members to participate in the conference.
A “3D Guide Simulation Experiment & Training Room”, the first of its kind with an investment of a million yuan, was completed in Jiayuguan City of Gansu Province and was officially put into use recently in the Jiayuguan Branch of Gansu RTVU. This has filled the gap of experiment and training teaching for tourism in Jiayuguan.
Recently, relying on the learning outcomes accreditation management information system, Shenzhen Radio and TV University (Shenzhen RTVU) has finished the first learning outcomes accreditation for more than 200 students. For those students who have obtained the credit accreditation, Shenzhen RTVU will waive a certain amount of tuition, which means previous learning outcomes made by students can bring a big “profit” in the later stage.