The Open University of China (OUC) and the Open University, UK (OUUK) jointly held three sessions of online teacher-training workshops at the OUC headquarters from 21 - 25 June, 6 - 10 September, and 11 - 15 October 2021.
Recently, the Open University of China (OUC) held an expert seminar on “Research on Chinese Civilisation and its Use in Education” in Tianshui, Gansu Province.
On 16 October 2021, the first session of the “High-level Forum on Contemporary Chinese Marxism Research 2021” was held in Beijing, sponsored by the Open University of China (OUC) and organised by the OUC School of Marxism.
In the finals of the 7th China International Internet Plus College Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition, held at Nanchang University from 12 to 15 October 2021, the Open University of China (OUC) won five gold medals and eight silver in the Vocational Education category.
An advanced seminar on the construction and development of Liaoning Open University (Liaoning OU), co-organised by the Open University of China (OUC) and Liaoning OU, was held in Beijing from 11-14 October 2021. A total of 95 people, including Yi Huanbin, Liaoning OU Party secretary, Guo Yongxin, president of Liaoning OU, Wang Hongyu and Li Dongqing, vice presidents of Liaoning OU, as well as student representatives from relevant departments of Liaoning OU and various branches at the prefecture, district, and county levels in Liaoning Province, participated in the seminar.
On the evening of 14 October 2021, the finals of the 7th China International Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition concluded at Nanchang University, Jiangxi. The "DIY Children's-carriage Teaching Aids" project of the Experimental School of the Open University of China (OUC) won the first gold medal for Beijing in the history of the competition.
The world is undergoing some of the most dramatic changes in over a century. With the coming of the post Covid-19 era, the structure of higher education will face great changes. Open universities, which focus on open education and online teaching, have entered a period of great transformation and leap-frog development.
On 14 October 2021, on the occasion of the Double Ninth Festival, the Open University of China (OUC) held a ceremony in Beijing for the signing of a strategic cooperation agreement with the China Broadcasting Network Group Corporation Ltd.(CBN).