Date: Dec. 13, 2021

Source: Network and Educational Technology Center

Author: Liu Qingqing

The annual conference of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Online Open Courses Alliance was held online on Dec. 12. With the theme “Innovative Application and High-Quality Development of Online Open Courses,” the conference demonstrated the sharing of online open courses across universities. It also discussed the higher education reform supported by innovative application of such courses and the building of a new pattern in an integrated way to promote high-quality development. 

Experts and scholars, course teachers and media representatives across the country, especially from universities in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao, participated. 

(The online annual meeting)

“Based on the Online Open Courses Alliance of the Greater Bay Area, we developed a self-operated platform, which is open to all colleges and universities in the Greater Bay Area, to share course resources,” said Jiang Lin, president of the Guangdong Department of Education’s Higher Education Division, referring to the 14th Five-Year Plan of Education Development in Guangdong. “The platform has introduced nearly 1,000 high-quality open courses at the provincial level, which enlarges the sharing of excellent educational resources at provincial and national levels and forms the Greater Bay Area’s mode in terms of coordinated development between colleges and universities.”

JNU Vice President Zhang Ronghua gave a work report for the alliance, describing its achievements in the last year from five perspectives: upgrading the alliance's platform, constructing a series of courses, promoting the application of online open courses, developing multiple communication channels and exploring sustainable development. 

Exports at the conference shared their insights, suggestions, research and practice for high-quality development of online education from various perspectives.

Founded on Nov. 24, 2018, under the guidance of the Guangdong Department of Education, the alliance is a joint initiative of 11 universities, including JNU, Sun Yat-sen University and South China University of Technology, with JNU as its presiding unit. It now comprises 82 colleges and universities, including 7 in Hong Kong and Macao and 13 higher vocational colleges.