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National Taiwan Normal University
NTNU Ranked 20th Globally in Education in World University Rankings 2021 by subject
Times Higher Education has announced the latest World University Rankings 2021 by subject: education in October. National Taiwan Normal University is ranked 20th, the best in Taiwan. The resources in education we put, the effort for internationalization paid off and NTNU stands a leading position in education. In another world university ranking, reviled in March, NTNU ranked 31st in the subject of Education; eight years in the row as the top 1 in Taiwan.
NTNU Amazes 2020 EdTech Taiwan
Higher education institutes around the world are affected by the epidemic this year and are forced to take on digital transformation. National Taiwan Normal University participated in the 2020 EdTech Taiwan, held from December 2nd to 6th, and demonstrated our professional development and research results on the epidemic prevention on campus, Chinese language teaching, computing thinking, information science, science education, AI application literacy courses. We want to show the world our determination to evolve together with ever-changing trends.
On the opening day, Executive Vice President Sung Yao Ting and Greg Chung Mou Lee visited the exhibition along with senior administrators. SmartReading is a learning platform developed by the research team led by Executive Vice President Sung. With AI and big data, the system can analyze the reading ability and recommend suitable book for students in no time. Day Pass is a system developed by the research team led by Vice President Greg Chung Mou Lee. There is an app that records the health information of students and the system is used for visitor controlling.
In the area of special edutation, there are Fun in Science, AI2 Robot City, Empower, AES-HAN and SmartReading. Fun in Science is developed by the team led by Prof. Chang Chun Yen in the Graduate Institute of Science Education. They designed a board game of science education and connects the CloudClassRoom system.
The team of AI 2 Robot City, led by Prof. Hsu Ting Chia from the Department of Technology Application and Human Resources Application, is a game-based learning kit for primary and secondary school students, which combines AI image-recognition teaching tool of MIT App Inventor and the computational thinking board game Robot City. Through this learning kit, users will learn to make smart cars, create image-recognition models, write, and perform mobile application. Users will learn to write a program to recognize the personal cards in the board game, and furthermore to control the smart cars with blue-tooth and compete in the computational thinking board game.
Taiwan Team ranked 6th in 2020 International Olympiad in Informatics
The Taiwan team, trained by professors of NTNU, had a good showing at the 32nd International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI). A total of 87 countries and 343 participants are in this game. The Taiwan team got three silver and one bronze, the one of the 18 counties that receive 4 medals and we are ranked as number 6 according to total points.
The 32nd International Olympiad in Informatics (IOI 2020) has been held from 13 to 19 September 2020. It is the most prestigious computer science competition for secondary school and high school students around the world. The competition is one of five international science Olympiads held annually. IOI 2020 is hosted by the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Computing.
Number of Double Major and Minor in NTNU Increased Due to Change of System
In response to social development and the need for cross-disciplinary talents, National Taiwan Normal University encourages students to learn in different departments as double major and minor. The original audition system will be replaced by registration. The number of students as double major and minor increased significantly. It is expected that more than 50% of students will enroll in courses from different department by 2025. In addition, the National Taiwan University system is working on cross-university enrollment. Last year, a student from the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature was admitted to the Department of Construction Engineering in National Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
Except for a few departments such as sports, music, and fine arts that requires specialties, most departments are adapting to the new dual and auxiliary registration system, including the Department of English, Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, Department of Business Management, and Department of Science and Information Engineering.
According to the Office of Academic Affairs, the number of double major and minor has increased from 1067, 1181 to 1486 year by year. Students are open to the idea of learning in different fields.
Now, cross- disciplinary learning is involved in the development plan of school affairs in 2020 to 2025. It’s expected that students with double major, minor and programs will rose from 35% to more than 50%.
