In today’s world, optimization problems are becoming increasingly prominent, and the progress in optimization technologies can not only bring considerable economic benefits but also highlight their outstanding social value, making significant contributions to the sustainable development of the ecological environment. Due to their educational positioning and disciplinary development needs, local application-oriented universities overlook the optimization and development of ideological and political theory courses in their growth, leading to lagging reforms in ideological and political education and suboptimal teaching outcomes. To enhance the teaching effects of ideological and political courses in local application-oriented universities, it is essential to scientifically design class contents, actively carry out practical teaching, adapt to the needs of the times, build an “Internet + Ideological and Political Courses” online teaching platform, and continuously innovate teaching modes of ideological and political courses.