Multi-dimensional teaching mode for introduction to aerospace

Abstract

With the development of aerospace technology, the demand for aerospace knowledge is becoming more and more urgent. Many Aerospace and non-aerospace colleges have offered the course of Introduction to Aerospace. Introduction to Aerospace is a general course. Different from general humanities courses, besides its wide coverage and large amount of information, it also has strong engineering characteristics, such as including many advanced structures and cutting-edge science and technology. The course is intended to the first-year undergraduate students. These students come from different majors, such as liberal arts, science and engineering, and their educational backgrounds, specialties and levels are quite different. How to make all the students can better learn the course content is a great challenge. After years of exploration and practice, the multi-dimensional teaching mode of “Classroom teaching + On-site teaching + Virtual simulation experiment + MOOC) Massive Open Online Courses (teaching + Mobile APP” for Introduction to Aerospace has achieved good teaching effect.Combining with the on-site teaching, students can better understand the theoretical content. Students show great enthusiasm for this kind of on-site teaching. They observed carefully and raised many questions they wanted to know. This teaching mode can encourage students to have a better understanding of the content.In the virtual experiment, the following six stealth technologies are fully demonstrated: the basic principle of stealth, understanding the stealth technology, the overall layout of stealth aircraft, the recognition and test of stealth aircraft, the penetration confrontation experiment and the air combat confrontation experiment of aircraft. The virtual experiment enables students to approach the cutting-edge technology in a more vivid and immersive way.MOOC is rich in content, and has the characteristics of using spare time to learn at anytime and anywhere. Students can learn relevant contents according to their own interests, and thereby expanding their knowledge and broadening their horizons.Mobile APP is a kind of course practice software. By using mobile APP, students can learn and consolidate the knowledge points anytime, and the learning effect is significantly improved.The multi-dimensional teaching mode of “classroom teaching + on-site teaching + virtual simulation experiment + MOOC teaching + mobile APP” of Introduction to Aerospace is a useful exploration for general education courses. Through years of practice, the teaching effect is good.