Higher education in China have gone through great changes in the digital era. The pace of education reform seems to lay behind the economical and social demands for for the high quality talents. Under this background, this paper explores the future-oriented higher education reform, covering the following aspects: to build a future-oriented learning approach driven by deep active learning; to transfer the core of higher education from Teaching to Learning; to change the  teaching methodologies in the digital age. Driven by the goal of cultivating learners’ higher-order thinking ability and problem-solving ability, the most important aim is to effectively integrate shallow learning and deep learning, enhance learners’ deep active learning ability, maximize learning effectiveness, and enhance learning driving force.

Sun Bin. A Study on the Future Oriented Higher Education Reform in China. International Journal of New Developments in Education (2024), Vol. 6, Issue 2: 164-171. https://doi.org/10.25236/IJNDE.2024.060227.

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