Yunnan Radio and TV University was established in May, 1979. Is a comprehensive use of radio, television, computer networks and other means, using written materials, audio-visual materials, computer courseware and other media, facing the grassroots, industry, rural areas, remote and ethnic areas to carry out modern distance open education. Yunnan National Defense Industry Vocational and Technical College was established in July 2004. It was formed on the basis of integrating the quality education resources of Yunnan national defense science and technology industry, such as the former Yunnan National Defense Industry School, Yunnan National Defense Technical School and Yunnan Ordnance Industry Workers College. It is an ordinary higher vocational and technical college that focuses on engineering, combines production with management, and trains high-quality and high-skilled professionals for photoelectric, mechanical, chemical and electronic information industries. Approved by the provincial people's government, the two schools merged in June 2009. Under the leadership of the school party Committee, the management system of two brands, one team and one legal person and the operation mechanism of resource sharing and coordinated development are implemented.
The school has six campuses, namely Xuefu, Chenggong, 12 1 and Haikou, covering an area of more than 900 mu with a total construction area of 270,000 square meters. The school is located at Xuefu Road 1 13 Xuefu Campus in Kunming. There are two secondary colleges, including open education, photoelectric engineering, mechanical and electrical engineering, media and information engineering, chemical engineering, economic management, arts and sciences, adult education, network education, secondary vocational and technical education, continuing education, online learning for industrial talents and practitioners, and other related management and service departments. The school also has the Yunnan Provincial Cadre Online Learning Institute sponsored by the Organization Department of the Provincial Party Committee, the Yunnan Modern Distance Education Center and the Yunnan Lifelong Education Service Center. It is the authentication node of the national modern distance education resource database. There are more than 600 teachers in the school, including full-time and associate vocational students 166, doctors 17 and masters 256. Open education, adult education, higher vocational education and secondary vocational education 178. Among them, there are 9 majors in open education undergraduate/kloc-0, and 36 majors in junior college; 34 majors in higher vocational education; There are 5 majors in adult education undergraduate and 50 majors in junior college; 34 majors in secondary vocational education. There are more than 80,000 students in school, including 50,000 students in open education, 6,500 students in higher vocational education, 7,000 students in adult education, 2,800 students in secondary vocational education, 6,000 students in online education, nearly 2,000 students in continuing education and training, and 0.5 million online cadres. More than 265,000 graduates were sent to the society, and more than 2 million people received non-academic education and training.
The school has formed a school-running system with Yunnan Radio and TV University as the leader, 36 city and industry RTVU branches and 128 county-level RTVU workstations (teaching points) as the base, covering the whole province's urban and rural areas; It has a number of modern teaching facilities such as satellite ground receiving system, two-way video teaching system, voice classroom, multimedia classroom, computer laboratory, electronic library, audio-visual reading room and program production room. It has formed a teaching mode of "three networks in one" to carry out modern distance education, which has become "the ladder of civilian progress, the weight of educational fairness and the supply station of national learning", and initially established a learning platform and system of "everyone can learn, learn from time to time and learn everywhere".
The school attaches great importance to the professional construction, practice and employment of higher vocational colleges. Photoelectric technology, mold design and manufacturing are the first provincial majors selected in Yunnan Province. There are 0/4 on-campus training bases and 43 off-campus training bases. In 2007, the school was rated as one of the first batch of national defense science and technology industry 15 vocational education practice training bases, and was identified as the numerical control technology training base of higher vocational education by the Ministry of Education. In 2008, the on-campus machining training base and the photoelectric technology training base of Yunnan North Optoelectronics Group Co., Ltd. were rated as demonstration training bases of provincial higher vocational colleges. Higher vocational graduates meet the needs of society, and the employment rate has reached over 90% in the past four years. 20 10 school was rated as the advanced collective in the employment of college graduates in the province by the provincial education department.
The school has established good cooperative relations with schools in Thailand, America, Australia, Canada and other countries. In the early 1990s, it signed an agreement with the Open University of Sukhothai, Thailand, to maintain the communication between teachers and students. In 2006, the 20th annual meeting of the Asian Open University Association (AAOU) was successfully held. In 2007, we cooperated with Denver Metropolitan State College to exchange teachers and students. 20 10 runs a school jointly with Kaisemont college in Australia, offering four majors: international hotel management, international tourism management, western-style catering management and electromechanical integration, and has begun to enroll students. Signed a cooperation agreement with Fenghua International Education Investment Group of Canada; Recruit the first batch of Laos public students.
The school is striving towards the goal of "a thousand mu campus, a scale of 100,000 people, a model higher vocational education and an open university". In the new era, Yunnan Radio and TV University will continue to adhere to the concept of building a lifelong education system and a learning society, take the reform of talent training mode and the pilot of open education as the main line, actively adapt to the needs of Yunnan's local economic construction and social progress, give play to the advantages of modern distance education, constantly explore the field of running schools, and further improve the school network and teaching support services at the provincial, prefectural and county levels. Adhere to the working idea of holding high the main theme of distance open education and coordinating the development of all kinds of education, implement the strategic focus of running schools with characteristics, establishing schools with quality and strengthening schools with talents, and strive to build first-class modern distance open universities.
Historical renaming
In July 2009, Yunnan Provincial People's Government approved the merger of Yunnan Radio and TV University and Yunnan National Defense Industry Vocational and Technical College. 20 10/0, the State Council approved Yunnan as a pilot province to explore the construction mode of the national open university. 20 12 On February 26th, the Ministry of Education officially approved the renaming of Yunnan Radio and TV University as Yunnan Open University. 20 12 On February 28th, 12, Yunnan Open University was established, which became one of the six pilot open universities in China approved by the State Council and the only open university in the central and western provinces. At present, the school headquarters has a net land area of 750 mu, a building area of 300,000 square meters, 540,000 paper books and 30.5T e-books. The total value of fixed assets reached 900 million yuan, double that of 2009. Now there are 98 experimental training rooms, and the total value of teaching instruments and equipment is nearly 654.38 billion yuan. The Open University of China has 2 1 undergraduate majors and 43 specialist majors. Yunnan Open University has 4 undergraduate majors and 24 junior majors. There are 34 majors in higher vocational education. There are 65,438+10,000 registered education students and 220,000 non-education students. There are 7 1 1 teaching staff and 534 full-time teachers in the school headquarters. Among them, there are 2 16 people with associate higher vocational titles and above, and 383 people with graduate education or above; Hired a group of experts and scholars from universities at home and abroad to guide and promote the construction of professional disciplines and courses; There are more than 4000 full-time and part-time teachers in the whole system. At the same time, the Advisory Committee of Yunnan Open University, represented by Mr. Hao Keming, a senior expert in China's education strategy research and major education decision-making, is mainly composed of well-known experts in the domestic education field, and makes decision-making consultations on major issues of school reform and development.