Abstract

With the continuous development and upgrades of the design industry, design courses in colleges and universities should advance with the times. In teaching, there are indeed many courses that lose touch with practical applications. Especially in practice teaching, they are disconnected from the designing requirements of the actual projects in the industry. For instance, the contents and modes of teaching deviate from the actual requirements. Based on the contents and teaching modes of practice courses for product design in this paper, the status of teaching is analyzed to strategies for course construction. It aims to promote the practice teaching of product design to better meet the actual demands for the development of the industry and the goals of system.

Highlights

  • Because of the economic development and the transformation of industrial structure in China, the current education reform in colleges and universities is lagging behind, and the talent-training mode and connotation construction of design professionals are not sufficient

  • There is a huge gap between the design education and the actual demand for design talents today

  • The employment rate of graduates majoring in product design is generally not high according to the survey of their employment situation

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Summary

The Teaching Status of Design Major in Colleges and Universities

Because of the economic development and the transformation of industrial structure in China, the current education reform in colleges and universities is lagging behind, and the talent-training mode and connotation construction of design professionals are not sufficient. Design education is mostly confined to textbooks, theories and surface forms It should be combined with professional characteristics and include the extra-school resources, for instance, the actual design projects and cases of enterprises. We should take practice courses as the carrier to developing students' abilities of creation and solving problems It is the aim of the current design education. The students' abilities to apply professional knowledge in actual design projects can be improved

The Evolution of the Project-driven Teaching Model for Design
The Exploration of the Teaching Model of Practice Courses of Product Design
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