"Open Education Research" is a purely academic journal approved by the State Administration of Press and Publication, managed by the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission, and hosted by the Shanghai Distance Education Group and Shanghai Television University. It was founded in 1983 and renamed in 1995. The journal is publicly distributed both domestically and internationally, with the aim of disseminating new ideas, concepts, technologies, and methods in open and distance education. Since its inception, "Open Education Research" has adhered to the publication philosophy of "international perspective, high-end quality, leading academia, and striving for excellence," combining internationalization and specialization in its development path, and has become a dual-core journal in the fields of distance education, adult education, and vocational education in China.