Abstract
The development of education informatization has brought opportunities for teaching reform in colleges and universities, but there are still some shortcomings when applied to public elective courses (PEC). The Blended Teaching mode that combines the advantages of MOOC and SPOC teaching provides a new exploration for improving the teaching effect of public elective courses. This article relies on the “Everybody Loves Design” MOOC national boutique online open course of Chinese universities, and applies the Blended Teaching model to the teaching of “Industrial Design History” course, a PEC in Z colleges and universities. A teaching model including the selection of course teaching platform and teaching resources, teaching implementation, teaching effect evaluation, teaching reflection, etc was constructed. The results show that this model has a positive effect on improving students’ learning interest, learning autonomy and learning effect.
Highlights
Public Elective Courses(PECs) are quality general education courses offered by universities for all majors and all grades of students, and chosen by students independently[1]
This article takes the public elective course "Industrial Design History",one of the PECs offered by University Z as an example, and relies on the Chinese University Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) National Excellence Online Open Course "Everyone Loves Design" to verify the feasibility of BTM in the public elective courses of design class
The Blended Teaching (BT) practice, which lasted for two semesters, was compared with the traditional teaching in the past, and it was found that the students who took the course had basically the same major background, covering most of the arts and science majors in the university, but there was a big difference in students' attendance, final grades and satisfaction with the teaching
Summary
Public Elective Courses(PECs) are quality general education courses offered by universities for all majors and all grades of students, and chosen by students independently[1]. They break down the barriers between disciplines, help optimize students' knowledge structure and meet the needs of training composite talents. With the development of education informatization, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC), with its rich and high-quality course resources, open course content, short and concise teaching videos and complete course structure[3], has brought opportunities for the teaching reform of PECs.but its shortcomings have gradually emerged. This article takes the public elective course "Industrial Design History" ,one of the PECs offered by University Z as an example, and relies on the Chinese University MOOC National Excellence Online Open Course "Everyone Loves Design" to verify the feasibility of BTM in the public elective courses of design class
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