Trialing project-based learning in a new EAP ESP course: A collaborative reflective practice of three college English teachers

Currently in many Chinese universities, the traditional College English course is facing the risk of being ‘marginalized’, replaced or even removed, and many hours previously allocated to the course are now being taken by EAP or ESP. At X University in northern China, a curriculum reform as such is taking place, as a result of which a new course has been created called ‘xue ke’ English. Despite the fact that ‘xue ke’ means subject literally, the course designer has made it clear that subject content is not the target, nor is the course the same as EAP or ESP. This curriculum initiative, while possibly having been justified with a rationale of some kind (e.g. to meet with changing social and/or academic needs of students and/or institutions), this is posing a great challenge for, as well as considerable pressure on, a number of College English teachers who have taught this single course for almost their entire teaching career. In such a context, three teachers formed a peer support group in Semester One this year, to work collaboratively co-tackling the challenge, and they chose Project-Based Learning (PBL) for the new course. This presentation will report on the implementation of this project, including the overall designing, operational procedure, and the teachers’ reflections. Based on discussion, pre-agreement was reached on the purpose and manner of collaboration as offering peer support for more effective teaching and learning and fulfilling and pleasant professional development. A WeChat group was set up as the chief platform for messaging, idea-sharing, and resource-exchanging. Physical meetings were supplementary, with sound agenda but flexible time, and venues. Mosoteach cloud class (lan mo yun ban ke) was established as a tool for virtual learning, employed both in and after class. Discussions were held at the beginning of the semester which determined only brief outlines for PBL implementation and allowed space for everyone to autonomously explore in their own way. Constant further discussions followed, which generated a great deal of opportunities for peer learning and lesson plan modifications. A reflective journal, in a greater or lesser detailed manner, was also kept by each teacher to record the journey of the collaboration. At the end of the semester, it was commonly recognized that, although challenges existed, the collaboration was overall a success and they were all willing to continue with it and endeavor to refine it to be a more professional and productive approach

Exploration on new ideas of robot teaching reform in Colleges and universities

with the proposal of intelligent manufacturing 2025 action program, it points out the development direction for the transformation and upgrading of China’s manufacturing industry, and also gives suffi cient power to relevant industries. The research on the cultivation of innovative engineering science and technology talents in the Chinese Academy of engineering has shown that China’s future modernization and economic development need scientifi c and technological talents with diversifi ed attributes, which also puts forward new requirements for robot teaching and talent cultivation in relevant colleges and universities. In view of this, in the process of robot teaching, it is necessary for university teachers to innovate their teaching ideas, improve the quality of professional teaching, break through the shackles of traditional teaching, build an effi cient talent training system through the integration of modern teaching ideas, complete the reform and innovation of robot teaching, and cultivate more talents with social developmentPractical professional talents suitable for the development of the industry. Based on this, this paper analyzes the current situation of robot teaching in Colleges and universities, and puts forward some ideas and suggestions for the teaching reform, in order to add fuel and raise wages for the teaching reform of robot in Colleges and universities

Exploration of Undergraduate Vocational Education in China: Process, Experience and Strategy

Undergraduate vocational education focuses on the cultivation of students' comprehensive technical ability, problem-solving ability and technical innovation ability. The development of undergraduate vocational education in China is the result of a combination of factors such as national strategies and regional missions. In this article, we sort out the policy documents and development history of China's vocational education and elaborate the current development, orientations, talent goals and faculty structures of undergraduate vocational education in various regions,. By the end of the article, several suggestions are proposed based on international experience and China's national conditions. China's undergraduate vocational education needs to take the"China mode" and follow the main purpose of "dual-track parallel, conditional integration". It's also highlighted that relevant departments should gradually promote the standardization of undergraduate vocational education, development of special features and standardization of governance in order to truly realize the high-quality development of undergraduate vocational education in China

Research and Practice of Innovation and Entrepreneurship Education in Petroleum Colleges Based on OBE Concept

Deepening the research on the topic of “Research on the current situation of innovation and entrepreneurship practice among college students and analysis of response strategies” is of great value to the healthy operation and coordinated development of college students, higher education institutions, the whole society and the country, and plays a positive role in creating the excellent trend of mass entrepreneurship and innovation in the whole society. It plays a great role in promoting the optimization and adjustment of the economic and industrial structure, the rationalization of market resources, the increase of employment opportunities, the improvement of employment quality and the improvement of people’s living standards. At the same time, combined with the support of sociology and related innovation and entrepreneurship theories, the study from a new perspective provides a theoretical basis and practical guidance for university students to participate in innovation and entrepreneurship activities, and provides certain reference value for further in-depth study of social innovation and entrepreneurship development work

Research on practical teaching reform of computer specialty under the background of new engineering

at present, China is in the era of vigorous development of computer science and technology. The development of s ocial economy and industry requires application-oriented colleges and universities to output a large number of new computer technology talents in line with the development trend of the times. Professional practice is the source of strength to achieve this goal. The concept of new engineering has provided a new perspective for the practical teaching reform of computer specialty from its proposal to development. Therefore, it is of great signifi cance to carry out systematic research on the practical teaching reform of computer majors in Colleges and universities from the perspective of new engineering. Based on the brief introduction of the concept of new engineering and the existing problems and reasons of practical teaching of computer specialty under the background of new engineering, this paper focuses on the eff ective strategies of practical teaching reform, in order to provide strong support for the cultivation of computer talents in the new era and the construction of new engineering in China while comprehensively improving the quality of practical teaching

On the talent training mode of “new engineering” in local undergraduate colleges

Funding  source: Research on talent training mode of "new engineering" in local undergraduate colleges and universities (project code: 2019SJA2197) Abstract: With the development of China's new economy and emerging industries, new engineering construction comes into being. Facing the construction of new engineering, local undergraduate colleges and universities should deeply understand their own development trend, clarify the training mode of new engineering talents, and take the adjustment of specialty setting guided by regional industrial demand, the innovation of talent training mode based on the consensus of coordinated development, and the improvement of talent training quality as the main measures for local undergraduate colleges and universities to cultivate new engineering talents Key words: local; New engineering; Talent training mode DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-33-15 Publication date: November 30th 202

Research on teaching reform of electrical majors in colleges and universities from the perspective of integration of production and education

Based on the vision of quality-oriented education reform, in order to meet the needs of the development of education and teaching at the present stage, university leaders and teachers should carry out teaching reform under the guidance of advanced ideas, in order to provide students with high-quality teaching services. As an electrical professional teacher, can be based on the integration of production and education under the background of the implementation of talent through training, that is, can teach students basic knowledge at the same time, guide them to master practical skills in practical training, rich practical experience, for their follow-up to adapt to social life and docking post work laid a solid foundation. In order to give full play to the application value of the integration model of production and education, electrical teachers need to explore the appropriate opportunity and path to build this advanced model in combination with automobile production demand, industry development trend, college education strategy and students’ actual learning situation, and then give play to the dominant position of schools, enterprises, governments and other institutions to provide students with quality training services. In the end, they can become the talents needed for social development and national construction. At the same time, they can improve the economic benefi ts of enterprises, promote the reform process of colleges and universities, and achieve win-win cooperation between schools and enterprises