Problems and Countermeasures of International Cooperative Education in Industrial Design

Abstract

The general trend of design globalization has given rise to profound education reform, which requires institutions of higher learning to promote international communication and cooperation in the process of discipline construction. International cooperative teaching & research project, setting of Chinese and foreign courses, international academic exchange and exchange student are the main forms of international cooperative education. The core of international cooperative education in industrial design is communication, cooperation, reciprocity and mutual benefit. It’s a reform which covers cross-cultural, global and applied courses and teaching activities. This paper introduces in detail problems existing in international cooperative education in industrial design, and proposes means of its reform in such aspects as resource integration, major reform, course setting, regional characteristic development and internal management mechanism.