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The 2017 Overseas Chinese youth “China Roots Trip” Spring Camp sponsored by Overseas Chinese affairs office of the State Council and the Overseas Chinese Affairs Office of Shanghai Municipal People’s Government begun on April 20 in Shanghai. The theme of the 10-day spring camp is ‘the Belt and Road Initiatives’. Shanghai Open University (SOU), as a Chinese Language Education base and one of the campsites, welcomed 33 Myanmar teachers and students from CPEC. This is the first Spring Camp held by
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202 representatives from 20 countries including 41 overseas participants met at Shanghai Open University to share their views and expertise on the ubiquitous learning between May 30-31th. The two-day conference was co-organized by National Commission of The People’s Republic of China for UNESCO and Shanghai Open University.
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“Immersion Hub”, a short term Chinese language program organized by Shanghai Open University (SOU) wrapped up on the morning of September 11 at Institute of International Exchange. The participants include 15 students and teachers from UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain, Brazil, Indonesia, Siri Lanka and HKSAR.
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Between 1 and 12 June 2015， ten visiting scholars from nine countries, the UK, Spain, Kenya, Malaysia, South Korea, Ireland, Myanmar, Mongolia and Zambia, successfully completed the Shanghai Open University(SOU) Exchange Program.
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On June 4, Professor Marco Antonia R. Dias, the former director of the Division of Higher Education of UNESCO, visited Shanghai Open University (SOU). Dr. Diaz was the founder of UNESCO Chair and UNITWIN Network Program.
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Program Dates: 24 August – 11 September
★ Scholarship Announcement Date: 1 July 2015
★ Deadline for Online Application: 22 July 2015
★ Paying Program Fee at Early Bird Rate: Before 31 July 2015
★ Registration: 23 August 2015
★ Program Starts: 24 August 2015
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In the morning of 16 March 2015, Professor Sorel Reisman, Head of the International Multimedia Education Resource for Learning and Online Teaching Alliance (MERLOT) from California State University was invited to deliver a lecture on “Open Education Resources (OER): A New Challenge for Teaching & Research” in the conference center. SOU’s Vice President and more than 40 teaching faculty and staff attended the lecture. The lecture was organized by both the Engineering Technology Research Center on
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On the morning of 14 April 2015Professor Mark Endean from the Material Engineering Department of the Open University UK, invited by the Shanghai Open Distance Education Technology Research Center, held a seminar on The Learning Design of the Open University of Britain in the Open Education Digital Lab. More than 30 teachers and administrative staff attended the seminar.
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26-29 December 2014, Professor Arno Puder from the Computer Department of San Francisco State University, USA, was invited to give a lecture on Android Development at the School of Information Engineering of Shanghai Open University. Teachers and students in SOU’s School of Information Engineering attended the lectures and actively participated in the discussion, through which they had the opportunity to witness the most developed computer technology from the USA. They benefited immensely from P
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16-19 December 2014, Professor Ye Yaoqiang, Vice-President of the Open University of Hong Kong, Dr. Zeng Wanmei, Vice-Director of the Education Technology Publishing Department, Senior Instructional Design Director Dr. Cai Minghui and Ms. Lu Huihui from the Open University of Hong Kong hosted a training on teaching and quality management. The training was organized by the International Exchange Institute, the Teaching Affairs Management Office as well as the Education and Teaching Management Off
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This semester, we invited Distance Education and Language Expert Dr. Karen Meyers to come and teach the staff and faculty members of SOU starting from 24 September 2014.
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In the plenary session of the ICDE SCOP Meeting in Indonesia, 19-21 December 2014, Professor Tolly Mbwette, Chairman of the African Council for Distance Education (ACDE) issued the Outstanding Institutional Supporter Award to President Jiang Hong. This was to put on a record of the appreciation from ACDE of the manner in which SOU hosted during the conference on Ubiquitous Learning and the success in cooperation regarding staff and students exchange programs between SOU and African institutions.
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During the summit of ICDE SCOP Meeting in Indonesia, 19-21 December 2014, President Jiang Hong had an inspiring and fruitful discussion with Professor Anja Oskamp, president of the Open University Netherlands, about such topics as capacity building, education resource, teacher-student communication, mutual-recognition credits and scientific research. They also signed a Strategic Cooperation Memorandum between the two universities.
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Dr. Sharon Ding and Mrs. Yang Guangyu from the UK Open University visited SOU on 11 December 2014 and gave a presentation in a seminar with the topic of Online Course Design and Assessment on 12 December at SOU.
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