Despite the turmoils and whirlwinds of its one hundred years, the Communist Party of China (CPC) remains unshakable, and steadfast to its original ideals. In order to celebrate the centenary of its founding, learn from its extraordinary and glorious history, and encourage everyone at the university to work toward its development in the new era, on June 30 2021 the Open University of China (OUC) held a performance. Members of the OUC Party Committee and leadership team, Party members throughout the university, and all faculty watched it in person or online.
A meeting to commend outstanding members of the Communist Party of China (CPC), outstanding Party affairs workers, and advanced Party organisations at the grassroots levels of China’s central and state organs was held in Beijing on 24 June 2021.
On 25 June 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) held a conference in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Communist Party of China (CPC), as well as the “July 1” commendation to award commemorative medals celebrating “glorious 50 years as a CPC member” to senior people with five decades of party membership.
On 28 and 29 June 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) and Hebei Open University (Hebei OU) held the “Training Class for New Employees of Hebei OU System” in Beijing. A total of 73 trainees, who are representatives of faculty members newly employed by the Hebei OU System in the past three years, participated in the event, which was organised into several sessions including listening to expert reports, visiting a red education base and engaging in Party history learning and education, sharing learning achievements, and giving a summary of the event.
On 21 June 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) and the Open University in the UK (OUUK) jointly held an online teacher-training workshop for teachers from the OUC headquarters, aiming to enhance their capacity for both teaching and innovation. It consisted of three sessions covering online tutoring skills, class design, and curriculum and MOOC production. 30 teachers from the OUC’s ten departments were selected to participate.
Recently, two visually-impaired students, Sun Jingrui and Xu Yun, from the School for the Disabled of the Open University of China (OUC), passed their degree-conferral English examination with scores of 86 and 79 (out of 100) respectively. This was the first attempt of the School to provide test services to students with visual impairments, with strong support from the OUC headquarters and Shenzhen Open University (Shenzhen OU).
On the morning of 25 June 2021, a ceremony to celebrate the openings of the Cross-border E-commerce Demonstration Park in Tianjin and the Cross-border E-commerce Industrial Park of Tianjin Open University (Tianjin OU) was held at the Saixiang hotel in Tianjin City.
The Faculty of Economics and Management of the Open University of China (OUC) held an academic salon on the morning of 22 June 2021, aiming to innovate training and stimulate research in "New Business" and Economics and Management in open education.