Frontiers in Educational Research, 2024, 7(5); doi: 10.25236/FER.2024.070529.
Jiayi Jin1, Hao Chen1, Yafei Huang2, Jun Yang1, Jinjing Sun1, Jiayi Zhao1, Yan Cui3
1School of Energy and Power Engineering, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
2School of Electrical & Power Engineering, Changsha University of Science and Technology, Changsha, China
3College of Communication and Art Design, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, Shanghai, China
As an effective way to implement engineering literacy education in universities of science and engineering, general-comprehensive education has distinct features in shaping values and cultivating found talents. However, the existing traditional teaching methods, which emphasize ‘teaching’ rather than ‘education’, have posed several problems in promoting general-comprehensive course teaching in universities of science and engineering. These problems are mainly related to course teaching methods, teaching contents, teaching forms, management systems, top-level design, faculty construction, the contradiction between general and professional education, and teaching methods. With the ‘Numerical Simulation of Computational Fluid Dynamics Training Course’ in University of Shanghai for Science and Technology as an example, this paper investigates the teaching and learning model for developing moral, general and comprehensive courses in universities of science and engineering, and a teaching system with the main line of "Research, Preview, Discussion, Practice, Assessment" is constructed. Moreover, it performs a pathway analysis from the teaching methods, contents and forms to achieve the reform goal of establishing a solid foundation and wide caliber for general education. The general education of universities of science and engineering should take advantage of their own disciplinary characteristics and resources to build a "student-centered" multi-modal and blended curriculum system for general courses. Moreover, with online and offline teaching resources and management methods, they should integrate the concept of education into the whole process of course teaching, thus providing a reference for cultivating versatile interdisciplinary talents who can adapt to the international community.
General-comprehensive education, Student-centered, Teaching model, Universities of science and engineering, Computational fluid mechanics
Jiayi Jin, Hao Chen, Yafei Huang, Jun Yang, Jinjing Sun, Jiayi Zhao, Yan Cui. Diversified Blended Teaching Innovation and Practice of Comprehensive Education—For Science and Engineering General Studies in China. Frontiers in Educational Research (2024) Vol. 7, Issue 5: 180-187. https://doi.org/10.25236/FER.2024.070529.
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