SPOC Blended Teaching of Computer Fundamental Course

Abstract

With the rapid progress of technology, the contents and requirements of computer fundamental course teaching are increasing year by year, while at the same time there are problems caused by the contradiction of the limited class hours and the varied levels of the starting points of the students. In order to improve the teaching level and effectiveness of computer fundamental course, we took advantages of SPOC (Small Private Online Courses) blended advanced teaching idea, combined the teaching concepts with teaching practice closely, and explored on reasonable application and implementation of SPOC model. The main measures included reconstruction of the structure and organization of teaching contents according to professional requirements as well as the needs of students, offering an individualized quality education for every student, online and offline learning and practice in which the students acting as the main body, fully development of student-student and teacher-student interaction. We also tried to solve puzzles from students in time, to explore the potential of students, and to promote their creative ideas and works. Practice showed that by using SPOC blended mode in the computer fundamental course teaching, the students' initiative was stimulated, the performance of course examination was improved obviously, and the learners performed better in extracurricular activities compared with control groups. The experience of the SPOC blended teaching mode reform has been proved to be a good help to promote the quality of engineering teaching and improve the students' ability of information technology.