On 13 April 2021, a conference to verify joint certification of innovation and entrepreneurship for Entrepreneurship and Small Business (ESB) was held on the Fuxingmen campus of the Open University of China (OUC).

A training class on live-stream commerce, the 1st of its kind, jointly held for disabled adults by Lishui Radio and TV University (Lishui RTVU) and the Lishui Disabled Persons’ Federation in order to support employment of the disabled and help them start their own businesses, as well as to implement the key strategic decisions and plans of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council, and help realise the goal of "building a moderately prosperous society in an all-round way and leaving no disabled people behind", concluded recently. The event was attended by more than 70 disabled people in the city.

On 13 April 2021, the Faculty of Economics and Management held a teaching-skills exchange, which coincided with a competition to select candidates for the Teaching-skills Competition of the Open University of China (OUC). Seven teachers participated in the event, and all teachers in the faculty attended to watch, and to engage in teaching exchanges and evaluations.

On the afternoon of 8 April 2021, the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Open University of China (OUC) offered a profession-development seminar to its teachers. Every teacher in the faculty participated.

In order to enhance the work of awarding degrees, ensure the quality of undergraduate instruction, and implement the strategy of "Creating Excellence and Improving Quality" of the Open University of China (OUC), the university held a training session on checking for plagiarism in bachelor-degree theses on 9 April 2021.

Recently, the “One College Student Per Village” programme implemented by the Open University of China (OUC) was awarded the 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Education.

PARIS, April 6 (Xinhua) -- The "One College Student Per Village" program, implemented by the Open University of China, has won the 2020 edition of the UNESCO prize for the use of ICT in education, the Paris-based United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) announced on Tuesday.

The “One College Student Per Village” programme at the Open University of China (OUC) is one of the laureates of the 2020 UNESCO King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education. The innovative programme provides an example of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and associated technologies can create quality education opportunities for learners from remote areas and improve social and economic development in rural communities.