The virtual teaching and research section's "ideological collision" field for cross-professional and cross-regional teachers
Our reporter Chen Xi
Relying on the virtual teaching and research room, teachers can carry out extensive education, teaching and research exchange activities, comprehensively improve the ability of teaching and educating people, and enhance the ability of teachers to deeply integrate modern information technology with education and teaching.
Li Chuanyong
Director of Academic Affairs Office of Nankai University
On July 20, the Higher Education Department of the Ministry of Education issued the "Notice on the Pilot Construction of Virtual Teaching and Research Sections". The first batch of about 400 virtual teaching and research sections are proposed for pilot construction, exploring the construction standards of new grassroots teaching organizations in the "smart +" era. Construction path, operation mode, etc.
What is a virtual teaching and research room?
Compared with the traditional teaching and research section, what is new in the virtual teaching and research section?
Why carry out pilot work and promote the construction of virtual teaching and research section?
Innovate the form of teaching and research with the help of information technology
"The virtual teaching and research office is a new type of grassroots teaching organization that uses information-based wisdom teaching methods to carry out online and offline teaching and research activities combined with virtual and real teaching and classroom teaching practices under the background of the'smart +'era." said Li Chuanyong, director of the Academic Affairs Office of Nankai University, early In 2019, Nankai University began to explore the construction of virtual teaching and research rooms in the mode of school-level teaching and research teams. In the past two years, it has successively established the "New Liberal Arts Virtual Teaching and Research Room" and the "Undergraduate Course Ideological and Political Virtual Teaching and Research Room of the School of Economics" in the past two years to start grassroots teaching. A new model of organization and construction.
The virtual teaching and research section helps to make up for the insufficiency of the original teaching and research activities based on the teaching and research section, and can effectively solve the problems in the allocation of interdisciplinary teachers and the knowledge structure of scientific research teams in colleges and universities.
"The establishment of a virtual teaching and research section can make teaching and research work more dynamic and open, free from time, space and geographical constraints, and make up for the shortcomings of traditional teaching and research methods." Li Chuanyong believes that the general teaching and research section refers to the faculty composition of a major or a course in the school. The virtual teaching and research section uses digital information technology to expand and supplement the original teaching and research section’s participants and teaching and research functions. It is composed of teachers who are good at a certain aspect or have a common willingness to solve a certain problem. Online joint research and discussion of teaching, teaching research, and scientific research topics.
Li Chuanyong believes that the core of the virtual teaching and research office is still teaching research. Now teachers are dealing with students in the Internet age. There are various MOOCs online and there are many ways to learn. The education effect of traditional single-knowledge teaching classrooms needs to be improved.
Therefore, in the classroom, it is necessary to adjust the teaching method, to understand the current state of the students, how to design the course, how to achieve the effect of curriculum education, and how to effectively cooperate with the students. All these require teaching research.
With the help of information technology, the virtual teaching and research room makes teaching and research work more convenient, making the scope of participation in teaching and research discussion larger, and making it easier to complete the work that was previously limited by region and energy.
"Therefore, relying on the virtual teaching and research room, teachers can carry out extensive education, teaching and research exchange activities, comprehensively improve the ability of teaching and educating people, and strengthen the teacher's ability to deeply integrate modern information technology with education and teaching." Li Chuanyong said that relying on the virtual teaching and research room, it is also It can strengthen cross-professional, cross-discipline, cross-school, cross-regional teaching and research exchanges, promote the collaborative creation of high-quality teaching resource libraries, excellent teaching case libraries, and high-quality teacher training resource libraries among universities, and promote interconnection, co-construction and sharing among major universities .
Take the virtual teaching and research section of the new liberal arts in Nankai University's School of Humanities as an example.
Shen Liyan, Director of the Teaching and Steering Committee of the Faculty of Arts, Nankai University, introduced: “The academic exchanges and teaching seminars of the new humanities virtual teaching and research section are open to undergraduates, masters and doctoral students. The form of the activity is the convener system, and the activity is held every two weeks; the network is also enabled. A collaborative platform to truly launch online communication and virtual teaching and research activities, exploring the possibility of the simultaneous development of new liberal arts teaching practice reforms and scientific research."
Different construction paths of virtual teaching and research section
"Beginning in 2019, Nankai University has gradually established 13 interdisciplinary school-level teaching and research teams. These are actually virtual teaching and research rooms. The teams have carried out a large number of interdisciplinary and cross-regional teaching and research activities." According to Li Chuanyong, these teams include Effective teaching, research teaching, wisdom college, academic guidance, experimental practice, innovation and entrepreneurship and integration courses, new liberal arts and new engineering, etc.
Taking the research teaching team as an example, professional teachers with rich experience and outstanding achievements in research teaching serve as the heads, and professional teachers from different disciplines in the school are combined to form a school-level team to lead the development of research teaching in the school.
At present, the research teaching team includes universities and enterprises in Tianjin and even the whole country into the team. The team leader, Mr. Zhang Weigang, introduced that during the COVID-19 pandemic last year, the team often held online meetings and held activities once a month, some of which were cases. Analyze and help team members analyze courses; some are teaching academic research, researching how teaching work can better improve the quality of education; others are companies participating in seminars, and applying scientific research methods and results to corporate projects according to corporate needs.
Another example is the Smart Academy pioneered by Nankai University, which borrows the idea of academy system. Although teachers and students are not physically together, they "live" together on the Internet. Through online and offline communication activities, teachers and students The relationship between students is constantly being drawn closer, learning from each other and increasing knowledge.
The model of Wisdom College provides a new platform for professional teachers to educate people, leading students not to be confused, to develop their talents, and to establish ambitious life goals.
Li Chuanyong said that, in fact, the teachers participating in the virtual teaching and research sections mentioned above belong to different subjects, and everyone came together because of one teaching method.
Although their respective areas of expertise are different, they can cooperate with each other and learn from each other's strengths, and then form some new teaching and research directions or some new teaching ideas.
It turns out that in the traditional teaching and research section, everyone has one direction and one major. The emergence of virtual teaching and research sections has enabled teachers of different majors and fields to "ideological collision".
The pilot application has strict requirements
Generally speaking, the virtual teaching and research section has four major construction tasks.
Li Chuanyong introduced, one is to innovate the form of teaching and research.
Make full use of information technology to explore a teacher teaching and research model that breaks time and space constraints, is efficient and convenient, and combines "online + offline" to form new ideas, new methods, and new paradigms for the construction and management of grassroots teaching organizations, and fully mobilize teachers The vitality of teaching has cultivated the fertile ground for teachers' teaching growth.
The second is to strengthen teaching research.
Relying on the virtual teaching and research section, promote teachers to strengthen the research and exploration of professional construction, curriculum implementation, teaching content, teaching methods, teaching methods, teaching evaluation, etc., enhance the awareness of teaching research, condense and promote research results.
The third is to build high-quality resources together.
On the basis of full research and communication, the members of the virtual teaching and research section collaborate to build teaching resources such as talent training programs, syllabus, knowledge maps, teaching videos, electronic courseware, exercises and test questions, teaching cases, experimental projects, training projects, data sets, etc. High-quality shared teaching resource library.
The fourth is to carry out teacher training, organize and carry out normalized teacher training, give full play to the exemplary and leading role of national teaching teams, teaching teachers, and first-class courses, promote mature and effective talent training models and curriculum implementation plans, and promote the teaching development of frontline teachers.
According to reports, there are strict conditions and requirements to become a pilot for the virtual teaching and research section of the Ministry of Education.
For example, the head of the teaching and research section should be a high-level teacher such as famous teaching teachers, national-level professional leaders, and first-class curriculum leaders; the teaching and research section has no less than 10 members, with a relatively stable high-level teaching research and practice team; the teaching and research section depends on the profession Or the course has been approved as a "national first-class professional construction site" or "first-class course"; the school can provide necessary safeguards for the operation of the virtual teaching and research section, and clarify the incentive mechanism in terms of teacher teaching workload identification and performance evaluation.