The Research and Practice of Maker Education and Associated Industrial Development Trends in China

Abstract

In recent years, the maker movement and maker culture in the field of education has nurtured maker education, which has become a major part of integrated practice teaching and the practice of “mass entrepreneurship and innovation” in schools. This paper investigates the maker education industry in mainland China from the perspective of research, practice, and industrial development. It includes a qualitative and quantitative description of several aspects of the supply and demand, market response, policy orientation, course, and teaching team of maker education by making comprehensive use of big data search and analysis, questionnaires, interviews, and other methods to explore development trends in maker education in the fields of basic education, higher education, and community education. The paper offers a basic judgment of the hysteresis quality of maker education, its research contents and group features, policy development, the improvement of production and teaching integration, the continuous increase in industrial development and market size, the relatively high demand in small and medium cities, and the trend of “mash-ups” with other education services