As an important part of undergraduate education quality improvement plan, improving students' practical ability is one of the important measures of undergraduate teaching reform in xidian university. Since 20 13, the school has formulated 50 measures from eight aspects, such as improving the training mode and deepening the curriculum reform, and actively explored the construction of an undergraduate education system focusing on encouraging and guiding students' self-development.
Hundreds of discussions on teaching ideas have reached an understanding of reform.
A few days ago, in the 10th Young Teachers' Speech Competition of Xidian University, three young teachers, including Feng Xiaoli from the School of Mathematics and Statistics, won the first prize and were directly promoted from lecturers to associate professors.
"Speaking well can promote professional titles and make teachers with strong teaching feel respected and recognized." Guo Baolong, director of the Academic Affairs Office, said that teachers' professional titles are evaluated from the beginning of teaching, and experts' lectures are graded. Every year, people are brushed off because of poor teaching. The school regards teaching at least one undergraduate course of not less than 32 hours per academic year as the basic condition for the appointment of professors, and sets up awards such as "Excellent Teaching Quality Award" and "My Favorite Teacher" to encourage teachers to concentrate on teaching and take pride in teaching and educating people.
The change began at the beginning of 20 13. The Standing Committee of the Party Committee of Xidian University issued the Implementation Plan of the Seminar on Comprehensively Improving the Teaching Quality of Undergraduate Education, and conducted more than 100 discussions on undergraduate education and teaching ideas among teachers and students at different levels, and finally reached two understandings: "talent cultivation is the fundamental task of the school" and "undergraduate teaching is the regular central work of the school". Undergraduate teaching reform project started.
The school implements the action plan of "learning from the West", pays close attention to the construction of study style, strengthens the supervision of the learning process through strict measures such as students' classroom attendance rate and homework completion rate, and includes teachers' participation in the year-end assessment, so as to achieve the attendance rate of freshmen and sophomores reaching 100%. At the same time, in the first and second grades and the third and fourth grades, the "academic training plan" and "innovation and entrepreneurship training plan" were implemented respectively, and well-known experts at home and abroad were hired to form an academic navigation expert database. The famous teacher gave more than 20 lectures on academic navigation, with tens of thousands of students participating.
100 million yuan will be added in three years to support undergraduate education and teaching.
Sean, a 201/student majoring in information and computer science in the School of Mathematics and Statistics, was recommended as a graduate student in the School of Life Sciences of Tsinghua University this year. In addition to excellent grades, the first prize of the National Mathematical Modeling Competition also gave her a lot of points.
The mathematical modeling competition in May every year is a "great event" of Xi 'an Dianzi University, with about 2,000 students participating. "The college offers 60,000 class hours of elective courses and training courses every year." As the head of the mathematical modeling contest in colleges and universities, Han Banghe is full of energy this year. He roughly calculated an account, and the available funds this year are nearly 20 times that of the past. "This is all the benefits brought by the undergraduate teaching reform."
According to the arrangement of the reform system, the school will increase the investment in undergraduate education to 1 100 million yuan within three years to ensure the priority allocation of undergraduate education resources. Han Banghe said that almost everyone in the college has a national project, and anyone who wants to work can apply for the project.
Guo Baolong said that the more projects supported by the curriculum, the more popular they are with students, which forces teachers to think actively and truly combine teaching with student training and social needs.
In order to improve the quality of professional education, Xidian University conducted a comprehensive "physical examination" of colleges and universities, drew a "landscape map" of professional teaching quality, and implemented a linkage mechanism between enrollment and professional construction quality, student source quality and graduate employment quality. Since last year, the school has carried out professional certification and professional self-evaluation in the School of Electronic Engineering.
Ten million principals' fund supports college students' innovation and entrepreneurship
Today, Wang Bo, a sophomore, and his teammates are working day and night in the laboratory to prepare for the national "Challenge Cup" competition in June+10, 5438. Their entrepreneurial practice project "Remote Information Interactive Intelligent Medical Auxiliary Platform" won the special prize of this year's Shaanxi University Student Science and Technology Competition.
What excites Wang Bo even more is that the school has newly set up a 6.5438+million yuan principal fund for college students' innovation and entrepreneurship, which is totally public welfare. I hope to get some financial support and realize the project transformation as soon as possible. "
In addition to the President's Innovation and Entrepreneurship Fund, Xidian University also implements a flexible academic system, allowing students to retain their school status and leave school to start businesses. At the same time, we will build an all-factor, open gathering place for makers, such as maker space and entrepreneurial workshops, focusing on creating creative spaces with electronic information characteristics to promote creativity and product landing.
The "Spark Cup" science and technology competition is a popular event in Xidian University. After more than 20 years, it has become a major cultural brand of the school, with more than 10,000 participants and thousands of works every year. Yang, a successful model in the eyes of the school and even An Chuangke, was an undergraduate in 2009 and once won the special prize of "Spark Cup". Garlic technology, which he founded at the beginning, has received 20 million investment.