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Highlights of 2020 Higher Education Sprout Project
SHU’s education characteristics in “communication courses as the core and threading curricula among various departments”, “integrating theory with practice” and “industry-academia cooperation for interdisciplinary innovation” will be continued during the years of the Higher Education Sprout Project, at the same time together with the targets of Medium Term Development Plan: “excellent teaching”, “high quality research”, “citizenship with global perspectives” and “sustainable campus”. The university has executed 2020 Higher Education Sprout Project to meet 4 goals, 17 strategies. The project highlights are summarized below:
- Innovative curriculum reform
(1) Optimizing the course “Omni Media Literacy” content to focus on the current development and future perspectives of related industries and students' reflective learning.
(2) Optimizing courses in “Computational Thinking and Programming” for logical thinking and problem solving.
(3) Research and development in innovative teaching material for 41 courses (57 teachers), and improving teaching capacity by exchange of experience in 20 professional learning communities.
(4) Executing 15 “Industry-Academia Cooperation Courses” connected with trends in industrial development, and establishing cooperation with Farglory Life and Eastern Media International Corporation.
- Multi-learning, accumulation of practical experience and learning outcomes
(1) Executing English proficiency simulated test for the freshmen, and creating the foreign language learning environment within English and Japanese corner.
(2) Awards for students’ participation in international, national and regional competitions, performances or charitable activities.
(3) Integrating specialized courses to train popular music talents by strengthening the creative energies from “Popular Music R & D Center”
(4) Holding the “First Annual Taiwan Canned Product Innovation Competition” with A.G.V. Products Corporation.
- Developmentof interdisciplinary learning based on digital communication and data Intelligence
(1) Producing and scheduling the youth forum programs for the interdisciplinary cooperation, and cultivating omnimedia talents as target by live broadcast projects and sports events.
(2) Using CNN’s news material and databank for teaching, research and news production learning.
(3) Analysis of online business performance by social media tools for 6 local industries.
- Development of effective learning and teaching environments with completed learning guidance program
(1) Promoting the education and financial aid and improving the mechanism of guidance.
(2) Establishing “LED Smart Film Studio”, and equipment augmentation of “Omni Media Center”, “Cloud Digital Learning Center”, “Shih Hsin Radio Station” and “6 Teaching and Research Centers” for the development of media production and smart data.
- Entering local campus of secondary education, and developing the community collaborative partnership
(1) Promoting specialized courses about speech communication, filmmaking as empowerment, computer programming, humanities and social sciences, English oral expression and law-related education to share the learning achievements in local campus of secondary education.
(2) Helping to develop image of communities around the university and local industries by newsgathering in communities, local social media management, elderly concern, video capture recording and digital map.