A Tentative Approach to the Cultivation of Maker Talents in Universities

Abstract

Makers are promoting and leading an industrial reformation of the “Maker-Age” in the “Internet +” era. Universities are the main front of the cultivation of innovative talents. Cultivation of innovative talents is the inevitable trend of innovation education in the new situation. The paper puts forward the cultivation of maker talents on the basis of demonstrating the definition and characteristics of maker talents, and analyzes cultivating paths of maker talents from four perspectives, which are maker activities, maker space, maker education and maker culture.