A Paragon of Lifelong E-Learning for the Global Chinese Society. Established in 1986 in Taiwan, NOU aims to provide open, sustainable, and never-ending adult learning and continuous education by implementing emerging technologies in a spirit of lifelong learning and responding to social change. Consequently, it aims to cultivate our students to become modern citizens with life, cultural, and professional competencies and social responsibilities.
All efforts have been made to provide an inclusive, supportive, convenient, and responsive learning space for our students and society.
NOU pays attention to diversities and minorities. We welcome everyone to be a part of our family. Students are supported in their learning, tutoring, finance, guidance, and career planning. NOU provides learners with easy access to learning environments that students can learn anywhere and anytime. NOU responds to the voices and needs of our students and society.
Cultivate students to become citizens with civic consciousness and social responsibility. Equip students with the abilities to learn and develop positive attitudes toward learning. Enhance students' abilities in life, social adoption, and appreciation of cultural diversity. Foster students' professional competencies and growth potential.
Citizenship: Develop students' knowledge and abilities in public participation, environmental protection, and other social responsibilities. Learning - Equip students to equip with language and technology excellence and a self-directed learning attitude. Life - Enhance students' knowledge and abilities in art and culture appreciation, interpersonal communication, and life intelligence. Professionalism - Improve students' professional competencies and systematic and creative thinking abilities.
Because social changes had emphasized utilitarian values and ignored the importance of humanistic cultural development, the educational authorities founded the National Open University (NOU) in 1986. The Department of Humanities, one of the first three departments founded, is tasked with enriching students' lives and expanding their perspective of life by nurturing humanities. Besides, students are expected to shaping up the appropriate philosophy and attitude towards life through the knowledge and practice of humanities. Under the planning and promotion of the department heads and the faculty, a solid foundation has been laid for teaching, researching, and facilitating students' learning. Simultaneously, the department is continuously improvising the coping strategies for the ever-changing environment.
In 2006, to provide students with professional training opportunities and enhance teachers' professional services, we established a health family research center, which expected to cultivate the talents, conduct academic research, and social service from the whole life and family operation points. So they can cultivate more talents in the living sciences courses.
The Department of Social Sciences is with the vision to lead people to be whole-person, to guide every learner to explore the relationship among the individual, the group, the community, and the environment. The early period courses were mainly for the dropout social elites who intend to continue the study. Currently, the courses of the Department of Business are classified into general business and professional business. The department of professional business consists of marketing, finance, and enterprise management.
