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Good Practices from AAOU Members

Organization and Management System in institutions of higher learning. There
of Online Education are three basic models.
The Chinese government decided on and
implemented the cross-century “Modern The first is off-campus study centres set
Distance Education Project” in the second up by institutions of higher education on
half of the 1990s. By 2003, 68 institutions of the basis of local RTVUs, adult education
higher learning had received approval from colleges, and vocational schools without
the Ministry of Education to pilot and explore the cooperation with the publication
a modern distance education model based on service system. For example, Central
two-way interactive satellite TV and computer South University established off-campus
networks. They gradually formulated their study centres based on provincial and city
own distinctive organization, management, RTVUs. Now, its learning support network
and operation model during the course of covers 25 provinces (municipalities and
offering online education. autonomous regions) nationwide.

• Organization Structure. In order to The second is to build off-campus study
advance the implementation of online centres in cooperation with the distance
education, pilot institutions of higher education public service system. For
learning established online education example, Northeast Normal University
colleges, which then set up study has entered into cooperation with Open
centres (tutorial centres) for teaching Edutainment, a public service system
and management all over the country. institution, to jointly build authorised
Furthermore, to advance the opening and off-campus study centres in 29 provinces
sharing of educational resources, from (autonomous regions and municipalities)
2005 to 2007, the Ministry of Education
gave approval to Open Edutainment, The third is a blended model combining
China Cyber Learning Co., Ltd., and the first two categories, including both
Hongcheng Technology Development independent off-campus study centres
Co., Ltd. to establish a distance education and those built-in cooperation with the
public service system offering teaching public service system. An example is
management and learning support Chongqing University Distance Education
for online education in institutions College, which has built more than 160
of higher learning. The institutions of off-campus study centres in 27 provinces
higher learning established their own (autonomous regions and municipalities)
public service systems and enhanced the nationwide using the blended model.
strength of their online education. Due
to the different methods of cooperation
with public services systems, there are
some differences in the organizational
management models of online education

The Open University of China (OUC)