Development of the Online Teaching Maturity Model in Open Education

Abstract

To improve the teaching quality provided by open education in China, this study developed a maturity model addressing the five perspectives of open education: teaching environment, teaching context, teaching resources, teachers and learners method. Afterwards, we examined the scientific validity of the model by evaluating the maturity of online teaching of Beijing Open University through survey data collection. Our evaluation indicates that the overall maturity of Beijing Open University remains at a basic level. From a theoretical perspective, the present study enriches the research on online teaching quality in the field of open education and provides new research ideas for the comprehensive evaluation of the online teaching quality of open university. The research conclusions have certain practical reference value for the improvement of online teaching quality in open education.