A-V
Center
The Center will become a recognized teaching and research base for high-level
and interdisciplinary language learning and teaching.
The
current director of the A-V center is Mr. Duan Jionghai.
Audio-Visual
Center (A-V Center)
The
Audio-Visual Center of BFSU was established in 1983. Over the past decade or so,
it has developed into a modern center equipped with state-of-the-art technology,providing
teaching, research and service facilities campus-wide.
The
A-V Center is housed in a building of over 7,800 square meters of floor-space
with language labs, audio-visual labs, video labs, a satellite reception station,
a computer center, an A-V resources library, recording studios, video studios,
an international conference hall, an auditorium for academic lectures, an audio-visual
auditorium and other teaching/research facilities.
The
staff working in the A-V Center is made up of a team of skilled engineers and
technicians, 90% of whom have college education. Among them, 7 are senior engineers,
another 17 are engineers.
Staff
members in these two categories makes up 60% of the whole team.
The
A-V Center plays an important role in teaching and research and in providing other
service at BFSU. During the past decade or so, the A-V Center has accomplished
a total of 150,000 language lab hours of teaching, accumulated about 10,000 types
of A-V resources, produced over 300 publications on learning and teaching foreign
languges on audio tapes and another 50 types of video teaching materials. Also
the staff members have published over 100 academic articles and readings. Over
40 of these items have received awards at the municipal, provincial and national
levels.
The
BFSU A-V Center plans to upgrade its performance in the next 5-10 years under
the leadership of the University management and its Party organization and with
the efforts of her staff members.
