Abstract: Family education is one of the important contents to promote the construction of a learning society and a learning country. Community education is an important way and effective carrier to build a lifelong learning education system for the whole people. The Open University takes the service of lifelong education as its own responsibility. As an important institution for carrying out adult education and lifelong education, it makes full use of an open and flexible education model. With the help of a wide range of community education networks, it carries out community family education and explores its development path. It aims to meet the needs of social diversified education, improve the cooperative education mechanism of“home school community”, and play an active role in helping the whole people's lifelong learning and building a learning society.

Key words: Community family education, The Open University, Development path, Advantages, Challenges, Collaborative education