How can general education be both beneficial and interesting
2025-01-13
General education pays more attention to guiding students to broaden their horizons and cultivate their sentiments. Through extensive cross disciplinary exploration, a comprehensive knowledge system is formed, and the comprehensive ability of analysis, induction, and critical thinking is improved through cross integration. "How to distinguish music composed by musicians from music generated by artificial intelligence?" "How will artificial intelligence diffuse and denoise by inputting prompt words, and generate more suitable images?" In the artificial intelligence general education course offered at Zhejiang University, a series of cutting-edge and practical course contents make students exclaim "beneficial and interesting". Excellent general education courses can often go beyond the classroom, across the campus, and become popular: Renmin University of China's strategic simulation and game play classes use the form of "board games" to enable students to explore the game of great powers on the "chessboard" and enhance their understanding of national security; The Positive Psychology course at Wuhan University guides students to think about the world and life in a more positive way, and the course WeChat group has become a window for students to communicate with each other. These innovative and thirst quenching general education courses have sparked a wave of "course grabbing" and demonstrated the enormous charm of general education. Wisdom is valuable and can be integrated. General education focuses on integration, learning knowledge and gaining a broader perspective. Compared to professional education, general education focuses more on guiding students to broaden their horizons and cultivate their sentiments. Through extensive cross disciplinary exploration, it forms a comprehensive knowledge system and enhances their comprehensive abilities in analysis, induction, and critical thinking through cross disciplinary integration. Training thinking ability and logical thinking, forming an inclusive learning character, is precisely the important significance of general education. The saying goes, 'No matter what, no matter what.'. General education conveys common and universal "principles" to students, enabling them to have the ability to connect and inspire each other in various subjects. For example, at Xiamen University, an increasing number of general education courses related to "beauty" have emerged: physics professor Cai Duanjun has "crossed over" to offer courses on Chinese opera appreciation, and many science and engineering students have been influenced by opera culture; Professor Peng Xingyue from the School of Life Sciences examines scientific research from an aesthetic perspective and teaches students to use the "logic of art" to re-examine professional knowledge. General education is of great significance for students to cultivate humanistic heritage, nurture scientific spirit, promote integration and innovation, and achieve comprehensive development. With the rapid advancement of a new round of technological revolution and industrial transformation, interdisciplinary integration continues to develop, and scientific research paradigms undergo profound changes. In this sense, it is particularly important to strengthen general education, break down disciplinary and professional barriers, and cultivate a group of versatile talents with broad knowledge and solid foundations. Expand the content of 'knowledge'. In addition to common course categories such as humanities and social sciences, universities should also keep up with the development trends of the times, combine with the characteristics of their majors, and have more new explorations in course construction. For example, in the face of the opportunities and challenges brought by artificial intelligence, public undergraduate universities in Beijing have achieved full coverage of general courses on artificial intelligence. Considering students' professional backgrounds and differentiated needs, the MOOC course module is designed in three universal versions: Science and Engineering Edition, Management Literature Edition, and Art and Sports Edition. Schools can also customize the "assembly" according to students' characteristics. Reasonably arranging the credit ratio of general education and developing more interdisciplinary courses can provide students with more choices and stimulate more possibilities for cross-border research. Enrich the forms of communication. General education courses should not be reduced to "cramming lessons" or interest courses that are passed by with a smile. Instead, on the basis of fully paying attention to students' experience and sense of gain, knowledge transmission, ability cultivation, and innovative forms should be deeply integrated, so that students can truly learn and gain insights. For example, in terms of evaluation, how to explore more diverse assessment methods to drive students' "innovative learning" through "innovative exams"? In practice, how to provide students with more internship and practical training opportunities to help them achieve the integration of knowledge and action? Only by answering these questions one by one can general education produce high-quality courses and be infectious. General education is not based on utilitarian values, nor is it directly aimed at vocational applications. However, it sows seeds in students' hearts, injecting more possibilities and opening up broader spaces for their future development. Providing comprehensive education to unify students' knowledge and expertise, enhance their development potential, and undoubtedly provide more assistance for the realization of their self-worth. (New Society)
Edit:Luo yu Responsible editor:Wang er dong
Source:people.cn
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