This paper briefly expounds the significance of the construction of course library, analyzes the main problems faced by the construction of course library, and puts forward some corresponding ideas and countermeasures for the construction of course library.
Paper Keywords: higher vocational colleges; Construction of course library; Explore; think
It is a major feature of higher vocational education to set up majors flexibly according to the requirements of market and regional economic development. It is a long-term task for higher vocational colleges to revise the teaching plan in time. The basic element of teaching plan is curriculum, and a large number of courses form a curriculum system according to certain internal logic. Curriculum system and curriculum management are the important contents of curriculum library construction. This brings challenges to higher vocational colleges from two aspects: on the one hand, the reform of curriculum content, curriculum model, curriculum structure and curriculum system; On the other hand, it is to manage these changed courses scientifically, normatively and effectively. Under the background of curriculum reform, Anhui Vocational College of Mechanical and Electrical Technology actively explores the effective management of various courses at all levels.
The Significance of Curriculum Library Construction
In order to meet the needs of teaching reform and curriculum information management, it is necessary to build a high-quality curriculum library with comprehensive courses and serving all teachers and students according to the actual situation of the school. The function of course library is mainly reflected in the following aspects.
The establishment of curriculum database is the need of deepening teaching reform. At present, the most profound change of teaching reform in higher vocational colleges is the reform of curriculum construction. Curriculum construction is the key and central link to deepen teaching reform, improve teaching quality and realize training objectives. Specifically, curriculum construction is the design of the whole teaching process of the school. The main idea of its reform is to emphasize work-based learning, dilute the traditional disciplinary boundaries, and strive to realize the organic combination of theory and practice under the guidance of the curriculum view of comprehensive professional competence-based and professional analysis, so as to promote the deepening of curriculum construction and teaching reform under the guidance of the concepts of "work process orientation" and "task drive". With the deepening of teaching reform, a large number of alternative and different types of modular courses have emerged. At this time, the role of the curriculum library is to provide guidance for the overall curriculum framework and avoid repeated construction; Standardize curriculum management and avoid blind construction; Establish curriculum standards and avoid arbitrary construction.
The establishment of course database is the need of information management. Course database is the basic platform of teaching management in the whole college, and the establishment of course database is the basis of implementing information-based teaching management in the college. The key to information management is simplicity, efficiency, interaction and enjoyment. The content of course library is complex, and the only way to realize its orderly management is informatization. Information management requires the unification and digital coding of course names in the process of course library construction, which is conducive to the implementation of teaching tasks and course arrangement; It is necessary to clearly divide the curriculum modules for students to choose; It is necessary to establish a relatively open platform so that managers, teachers and users have relatively free rights and responsibilities. The establishment of the platform will greatly promote the enjoyment of high-quality teaching resources and provide a "course package" for distance education and training. In addition, the establishment of course database can also provide convenience for the monitoring and evaluation of course teaching quality.
The establishment of curriculum database is the need of the benign development of curriculum, which can simplify the curriculum of the whole hospital and release it to all teachers and students. On the one hand, the good experience in the construction of similar courses can be inherited and continued, and the wisdom accumulated for a long time can be solidified and developed continuously, creating a good atmosphere for the emergence of excellent courses; On the other hand, it can enhance the competitiveness of course teaching, and then ensure the quality of course teaching. In addition, the course library is dynamic, which can provide space and possibility for the survival of the fittest.
Several problems in the construction of curriculum library
The construction of course library is a systematic project and a long-term dynamic process. Teaching plans will be constantly revised, new courses will emerge, and existing courses will return to order from disorder, which requires a lot of coordination and arrangement. On the technical level, there should be a relatively open and stable platform to provide support, and it also needs institutional guarantee.
Curriculum
Standardization of course names is the key to effective coding. For a long time, our college has lacked strict requirements for course names, which leads to confusion, randomness and ambiguity in course names. In the process of standardizing course names, we are faced with the following problems: different courses should be offered in different semesters for the same course; The same course has different requirements in different departments and should be treated differently; If the names of training courses and theoretical courses are the same, we should distinguish them and so on.
Definition of course types The courses in our college mainly include theoretical courses and practical courses. Theoretical courses are divided into public basic compulsory theory, vocational basic compulsory theory, vocational direction compulsory theory, public basic elective theory, vocational and technical elective theory and so on. Practice courses are divided into public compulsory practice, vocational and technical compulsory practice and vocational direction compulsory practice. The course of "integration of theory and practice", which is undergoing curriculum reform, cannot be properly positioned and classified. With the increase of "integration of theory and practice" courses, the management of such courses will become more and more difficult.
In order to facilitate teaching, the traditional class hours in our college are generally divided into two sections. However, the course arrangement of "integration of theory and practice" may be half a day or one day, which challenges the traditional course arrangement. In addition, in the arrangement of class hours, according to the curriculum requirements and the actual situation of students, the class hours should be set scientifically and reasonably to avoid randomness.
Revision of Outline Many courses lack an outline, especially newly-opened courses and public elective courses. The revision and improvement of the syllabus needs a process, and the revision of the syllabus needs to adjust the teaching content of the course in time according to the market demand.
(2) Institutional aspects
The person in charge of the curriculum system refers to the teacher who is fully responsible for the teaching implementation and teacher guidance of a course and puts forward constructive opinions and suggestions on the curriculum construction and reform. The establishment of curriculum director system plays an important role in standardizing curriculum construction and improving teaching quality. At present, our college has established a curriculum director system for main courses, but it has not covered all courses.
Specialty Construction Committee: System Specialty Construction Leads Curriculum Construction. The Steering Committee of Specialty Construction should solve the problem of who to build the specialty for, how to build it and who to manage it. Macroscopically, the role of the Steering Committee for Specialty Construction is to coordinate and integrate various forces and resources inside and outside the school (experts, course leaders, directors of teaching and research sections, directors of departments and other relevant functional departments), and to set up and develop existing or upcoming specialties. Microscopically, the Steering Committee of Specialty Construction should review the problems of specialty planning, professional standards and curriculum construction in the development of specialty, and provide guidance for specialty construction. However, the professional construction steering committee has more forms than contents and lacks effective supervision and management means.
In this regard, it is necessary to formulate corresponding mechanisms to standardize and strictly manage the course admission and withdrawal mechanisms. Formulating the system of course admission and withdrawal can increase the flexibility of course setting and bring dynamic changes to course library. Although it will bring some management difficulties, it is conducive to the optimization of the course library.
Countermeasures for the Construction of Curriculum Library
Through in-depth analysis of the problems faced by the construction of curriculum library, our college has made active explorations in the construction of curriculum library.
(A) the idea of course library construction
The trend of curriculum reform in higher vocational colleges is to build a "working process-oriented" curriculum system. Under the guidance of the concept of "work process orientation", the curriculum has broken the original discipline barrier, and the block-based and project-based curriculum has emerged. No matter what kind of curriculum system, the curriculum tends to be modular. Therefore, the construction of curriculum library should establish the concept of modular curriculum management. Modular courses are the subdivision of specialized courses, which are generally divided into several course modules, such as public basic courses, specialized basic courses, specialized main courses, elective courses and practical courses. After subdivision, we can quickly and flexibly respond to the changes of job groups through curriculum reorganization.
(B) the steps of course library construction
Revision and Perfection of Teaching Plan Taking the teaching evaluation as an opportunity, according to the spirit of Principles and Opinions on Formulating Teaching Plan for Higher Vocational Education Specialty and Several Opinions on Improving Teaching Quality in an All-round Way by the Ministry of Education, our college started the revision of teaching plans for various majors. Through the issuance of "Implementation Opinions on Revising the Teaching Plan of Higher Vocational Colleges", the training objectives and basic specifications, teaching plan content, curriculum principles and requirements of each major are clarified. The requirements of class hours, the division of curriculum modules, and the schedule arrangement of each course are standardized. For example, in the arrangement of teaching schedule, the course is divided into nine modules, including compulsory theory course, compulsory practice course, compulsory theory course of vocational and technical foundation, compulsory theory course of vocational and technical direction, compulsory practice course of vocational and technical direction, public and professional technical elective course and extracurricular quality development course. When revising the professional teaching plan, all departments need to clarify the course name, course attribution, class hours, assessment methods, semester arrangement and other issues. This major is divided into nine modules from three academic years.
The construction and input of the course database platform in our college adopts the teaching software, and the functions of the software are continuously developed during the use. After the completion of the teaching plan, the course library platform can be built in the course library management project under the management of the teaching plan of the software. Each department can arrange special personnel to input all kinds of courses in the established teaching plan into the system. The contents of the input system include: course name, class hours (theoretical class hours, experimental class hours, total class hours), course category, starting department, course introduction, syllabus, applicable majors, main units of course construction, etc. Adhere to the principle of one course in the specification of course name. The same course is offered in different departments and departments with different requirements, so it is named after "course name I and course name II". Such as Mechanical Drawing and Computer Drawing Ⅰ and Mechanical Drawing and Computer Drawing Ⅱ. For the same course offered in different semesters, it is named in the form of "course name (semester)". The advanced mathematics offered in the first semester can be named "Advanced Mathematics (I)".
Unified coding and management of courses After all departments enter the course data, the Academic Affairs Office will uniformly code the courses. The curriculum module of our college consists of seven digits, the first two digits indicate the module to which the course belongs, which is composed of 0 1 ~ 09, the third and fourth digits indicate the department to which the course belongs, the fifth and sixth digits indicate the course serial number, and the seventh digit indicates the semester or requirements of the course. For example, 02 1 107 1 indicates that this course is a compulsory course for vocational foundation and the first semester of information engineering department. After entry, the data in the course library can be dynamically managed. Zheng Fang software provides functions such as adding, reopening, adding, modifying, deleting and inquiring courses, which can basically meet the needs of management courses.
Perfection of relevant supporting data of course library In order to play the role of course library, it is necessary to complete the relevant supporting data of course library such as teacher library and classroom library. The establishment and perfection of these three databases can bring great convenience to course arrangement, course selection and teaching evaluation.
In a word, the construction of course library depends on the cooperation of the whole hospital. At present, the construction of curriculum database in our college has achieved initial results, but there are still many tasks to be further strengthened, such as the further improvement of curriculum outline and the in-depth study of "integration of theory and practice" curriculum management.
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