Abstract: Teaching and research community serves as an important means to improve teachers’ education and teaching ability, realize an integration of research and training, and promote the reform of school education and teaching. A study of the evolution of community, and of the implication of teaching and research community helps understand its research content, construction forms and functional orientation. That development for teachers in open university is blocked by many obstacles: the contradiction between vigorous development demand and limited supply, between continuous demand and intermittent supply, between diversified development demand and single supply mode, and between job burnout and personal promotion. To cope with that, some strategies are put forward as follows: 1) to build, with project and platform as the supporters, the consciousness and atmosphere of collaborative teaching and research; 2) to convert research results in time for promoting teaching and research; 3) to lay down flexible management rules for enhancing the optimization and improvement of the teaching and research system; 4) to innovate service supply of teaching and research for enhancing gradually teachers’ sense of research gain.

Key words: open university, teaching and research community, learning community, teacher training, teaching and research culture, educational technology