The College of Distance and Continuing Education of China Geo University has established or is establishing nearly 40 off-campus learning centers in China according to the Administrative Measures on Establishing Off-campus Learning Centers issued by the Ministry of Education.
According to the spirit of the relevant documents of the Ministry of Education, the college offers specialized courses, undergraduate courses and elective courses. Relying on various departments of the school, the college organically integrates the course of famous teachers into the online education platform, and adopts teaching methods such as face-to-face teaching, online learning, after-school counseling, online real-time and non-real-time counseling and answering questions, and experimental practice to achieve teaching goals and objectives. By the end of 2007, more than 20,000 students had officially registered. Students have achieved the required teaching requirements through these teaching forms, and can get credits (grades) for online education in China Geo University. The state implements an electronic registration system for academic certificates and recognizes their academic qualifications. Those who meet the requirements stipulated by the state for conferring academic degrees may obtain corresponding degrees.
The purpose of online education in China Geo University is to integrate excellent teaching resources inside and outside the school and provide multi-level and diversified learning services for learners. In order to build a learning society and lifelong education system and cultivate multi-level high-quality talents needed for socialist modernization.
Adult higher education began in 1956. At the educational level, both senior high schools and junior colleges and junior colleges start undergraduate courses. Learning forms include correspondence, night university and so on. At present, there are nearly 6000 students. There are correspondence stations and teaching stations outside the school, and now there are nearly 40 majors to meet the needs of society. The school insists on knowledge education and skills training, and adheres to the direction of running a school oriented to social economy. We have carried out various forms of cooperation with the Ministry of Land and Resources, large factories and mines, enterprises and institutions, and universities, and trained more than 40,000 talents in urgent need of all kinds of society.
Adult education in China Geo University revised the teaching plan of adult higher education in our school according to the catalogue and requirements of undergraduate majors issued by the Ministry of Education. At the same time, a set of perfect rules and regulations has been formulated in daily teaching operation, student status, student management, off-campus correspondence station and teaching station management, which makes the teaching level and management level more scientific and standardized and ensures the quality of education and teaching.
For a long time, adult education has fully relied on the advantages of disciplines and resources of the school, is determined to reform and forge ahead, actively adapts to the needs of the times and social development and changes, and constantly explores the operating mechanism and talent training mode of adult higher education, which has won wide acclaim from the society and unanimous praise from employers. In the practice of running a school, Adult Education College has carried forward the fine style of study and strict management tradition, persisted in the survival by quality and development by characteristics, actively deepened the teaching reform, strengthened the monitoring of teaching quality, paid attention to the teaching practice, vigorously carried out the second classroom activities, strengthened the cultivation of students' applied skills and professional quality, and made great efforts to improve the quality of education, and achieved gratifying results.
Facing the historical opportunity and the challenge of knowledge economy in the new century, adult higher education, as a national key university, must shoulder the great trust and create greater glories in the great strategy of "rejuvenating the country through science and education". Our development goals in the next decade are: under the guidance of modern educational concepts, guided by market demand and guided by the operation mechanism of educational industrialization, to create a more dynamic school-running system; Establish a school park with advanced teaching methods and excellent educational environment; Build a United, innovative, standardized and efficient learning management organization; On this basis, we will gradually establish a high-level and high-quality lifelong education system with continuing education after university as the core, moderate development of academic education after high school, and coordination between academic education and non-academic education.