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Good Practices from AAOU Members

Vocational Education for Retired and management system and operation
Soldiers in an All-round Way”,“ Notice mechanism for the open university system
on Further Improving Recruitment, and regular institutions of higher learning
Training and Management of Retired engaged in open and distance education.
Military Soldiers in Higher Vocational
Colleges ”(2020), Notice on Printing and The Open University System
Distributing Action Plan to Improve the Prior to 2010, the main educational
Quality of Vocational Education (2020- institutions engaged in open and distance
2023) (2020), etc. The above policies education in China were from the national
aim at relying on modern information RTVU system developed after 1978. In order
technology to speed up the integration to put into effect the guiding principles
with various forms of education, so as of relevant documents, the Ministry of
to expand the scope that education Education gave approval for the CCRTVU
can cover, create a ubiquitous learning and five local RTVUs to rename themselves
environment, and innovate the education “open universities” in 2012, forming a system
and teaching model. The formulation of which consists of the OUC and the five
these policies has expanded the space local open universities in Beijing, Shanghai,
of development for distance education Jiangsu, Guangdong, and Yunnan. Until the
institutions, and will force distance end of 2021, all the 44 provincial RTVUs in
education institutions to speed up the the Open University System changed their
pace of innovation and development to names to open universities. The following
adapt to the diversified development section introduces the organization and
trend of “Internet + education”. management of the OUC.

MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IN CHINA ODE OUC Organizational Structure
At present, there are two main kinds of The OUC is a new style of university
institutions of higher learning engaged in established on the basis of China Central Radio
open and distance education. One is the and TV University (CCRTVU) and some local
open university system dedicated to open RTVUs with an educational network covering
and distance education, whose predecessor all urban and rural areas across China. It is
was the national radio and TV university directly led and managed by the Ministry of
system that came into being after 1978. Education. The OUC’s organizational system
The other is regular institutions of higher is made up of the headquarters, regional
learning that offer open and distance branches, local schools, and study centres
education. This section of the paper focuses on the basis of voluntary, equal, win-win
on the introduction of an organization cooperation (see Figure 1).

The Open University of China (OUC)